WELCOME! Dear Danspace Project friends and family, I have just arrived from Colorado, lived through the APAP madness, and have been warmly welcomed by so many of you. Thank you! For me, as for so many other dance presenters working outside NYC, Danspace Project has played a seminal role as an aesthetic bellwether. It is an honor to enter the artistic landscape that Laurie Uprichard has so beautifully and rigorously upheld, and to commit to maintaining Danspace Project as a singular place for choreographic/dance work in the United States. I don’t come into this community with a specific agenda, but rather with a process that involves listening, looking, and learning about Danspace Project’s culture and the dance community’s current context and issues. Danspace Project’s strength lies in its artist-centered mission and my goal is to foster a textured and varied creative environment that responds to the aesthetic values of staff, board, Artists Advisory Board, and the dance community. Over the next year, I hope to tap our community’s creative imagination as we plan for Danspace’s future. I am looking forward to working with all of you to create a vital center that provides dance artists and their collaborators with a home for deep investigation and dynamic creation. Warm regards, Judy Hussie-Taylor Executive Director Danspace Project is Pleased to Announce our Spring 2008 Performance Season. This performance season is filled with fresh, bold performances by some of today's most innovative contemporary dance artists. Inspired offerings by celebrated dance veterans and promising up-and-comers grace our historic performance space. The season opens on April 3rd with the premiere of Carrie Ahern's The Unity of Skin and continues through June 28th. Throughout the season, we present commissioned works from a broad range of local and international choreographers. Highlights include the premiere Hilary Easton + Company's Noise + Speed; the New York premiere of Dutch duo Leine & Roebana's internationally acclaimed work Sporen; Tom Pearson and Zach Morris' wickedly funny and suddenly somber Vanishing Point; and Susan Rethorst's 208 East Broadway part two, the second in her series of " No Money/No Space " dances. We partner once again with Brooklyn's BRICstudio to present two Out of Space @ BRICstudio showcases. The series' new curator Ishmael Houston-Jones brings together a diverse roster of dance artists. At our 2008 Gala on Tuesday, May 20th, along with Benefit Committee Co-Chairs Mikhail Baryshnikov, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, and Harvey Lichtenstein, we honor Danspace Project Board Member and former Executive Director Laurie Uprichard. Click here for more information on the gala. Join us often this season. Be entertained, captivated, compelled, and challenged. Experience dance that's alive and new. Take a risk. Be curious. Learn about our upcoming performances. Danspace Project Welcomes New Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor. Read the full press release. Become a Danspace Project Member Save 1/3 on tickets throughout our 2007/2008 performance season and enjoy the many benefits of membership, while helping Danspace continue to bring you innovative programming, fending for the creative and curious. Interested in showing your work at Danspace Project? Click on programs to learn more about the opportunities available.