Part 7 “Now that I am beyond the initial paralysis of calling one’s first teachings into question, I am left with: be critical and sing.” C.D. Wright   Fragments from Friday (Words almost heard) Catastrophe of meaning Always hurtling toward catastrophe Catastrophe… Read more

by Svetlana Kitto Tonight it feels different, this place you thought you knew. Tonight it’s shot through with the past. It’s a haunted house looming with specters in rooms. Rooms that you never knew existed are full of movement and… Read more

Writer in Residence Sam Miller responds to Talking Duets: #1 (2/20), An Evening with Paul Chan and Claudia La Rocco (2/24), and Eiko solos.   Part I Lack of policy is a policy Lack of clarity is a kind of… Read more

About once a week, someone wanders into Panya, a Japanese deli on East 9th Street at 3rd Avenue, and asks for the bookstore that used to be next door. The old St. Mark’s Bookshop acted as an ambassador to the… Read more

by Svetlana Kitto Ten years ago, my friend Tiffany and I drove across the country to move to NYC. We picked up a Dodge Sprinter in Downtown Los Angeles that needed to be driven to the East Coast, packed all… Read more

Sam Miller is the founder and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He has also served as the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC),  President of Leveraging Investments… Read more

Svetlana Kitto is a writer, teacher and oral historian. Her fiction, articles and interviews have been featured in Salon, VICE, Art21, Plenitude Magazine, OutHistory, Surface, Queen Mobs Teahouse and the New York Observer among other publications, and the books Occupy… Read more

On November 10, Danspace Project presented a four-hour Conversations Without Walls: Reflections on Some sweet day, a dance series at MoMA curated by Ralph Lemon with MoMA/PS1 curator Jenny Schlenzka. The following response essay is by Danielle Goldman, dancer, author and currently… Read more

“PUTTING THE BODY WHERE THE BRUSH HAD BEEN” In 1961, a tornado tore through Sidney, Illinois while Carolee Schneemann was studying painting as a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chapmpaign-Urbana. She and the composer Jim Tenney lived in a… Read more

THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST In “An Evening with Lucinda Childs,” the choreographer performed excerpts from two solos that premiered at the Judson Memorial Church in the early sixties:  Pastime (1963) and Screen (1965). The solos provided a glimpse into Childs’s early use… Read more