By Yarden Stern Hadar Ahuvia’s The Dances Are For Us begins with a formal introduction. Ahuvia assembled a troop of performers from different backgrounds and nationalities, varying in their approaches to and histories of dance. She reveals to… Read more
In conversation with Johnnie Cruise Mercer: on PM4, Foundations, Thru Lines, and Media but not giving it all away by Benedict Nguyen When Johnnie Cruise Mercer talks about the work that he helps direct into being, he uses… Read more
By Benedict Nguyen Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheRedProjectNYC Process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock. Danspace Project February 28 – March 2, 2019 I almost miss a beginning to Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheRedProjectNYC’s Process memoir 4: The word, the spirit,… Read more
This essay appears in the Gallery Guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer on view at Danspace Project June 23-July 1, 2017. More details here. The Useful Lies of Dance Mediation… Read more
A condensed version of this essay appears in the Gallery Guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer on view at Danspace Project June 23-July 1, 2017. More details here. Creeping Trio… Read more
Jose Clemente Orozco’s Hombre de Fuego: Last month I was in Guadalajara. I stood under the dome in Hospicio Cabanas, tracing circles under the painting by Orozco of a man engulfed in flames walking calmly across the sky. As I… Read more
Graduate programs do not usually have students write briefly and fast. So Robert Hullot-Kentor, wise chair of the School of Visual Arts’ Critical Theory and the Arts department, suggested I take those CTA members stuck in New York over… Read more
An Oral History with David Yarritu 11/14/2016 by Svetlana Kitto I had been in New York for about a year when I met Max. He was my boyfriend for four years, from 1984–’88, when he died of AIDS.… Read more
An Oral History with David Yarritu 10/15/2016 In the eighties, the Pyramid Club became an off-center playhouse for a small community of queers and artists who weren’t interested in the mainstream gay and drag scenes. At the East Village club, an intimate group of artmakers, friends,… Read more
by Leeroy Kun Young Kang It seems fitting that I watched these films before witnessing Eiko perform. There is a feeling, part curious, part mischievous, about peeking at someone’s bookshelf when you go to their house for the first time. The… Read more