by Judy Hussie-Taylor Danspace Project Executive Director and Chief Curator While designing Danspace Project’s Platform series in 2008, I knew I wanted to work with artists as curators to formally frame relationships between artists of different generations. That’s where,… Read more
by Alex Fialho In February 2016, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released its first ever projective study of lifetime risk for contracting HIV among specific populations, including a deeply troubling estimate: the study predicted that one in two… Read more
Sally This should be it. Maybe the piece of writing I did yesterday I’ve enclosed, and that really says it all. In rehearsal. a wonderful, blessed, and lucky time. When all of a sudden I thought that it was possible,… Read more
As we gear up for the Lost & Found Platform this October & November, curators Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls offer some key texts that have informed their research. Platform 2016: Lost & Found co-curator Ishmael Houston-Jones shares his Recommended Reading… Read more
“Danspace Project to Launch Largest Curatorial Project in its History” (Artforum, July 14, 2016) Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls, the program will reflect on the AIDS hysteria of 1981 to 1996 through a presentation of performances, conversations, film… Read more
PLATFORM 2016: Lost and Found will include over 80 artists in 28 events, including world premiere performances, conversations, a zine project, a print catalogue, film screenings, and a vigil over October 13–November 19. Take a look at the week-by-week calendar below… Read more
The following excerpt is from a chapter by Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project Executive Director and Chief Curator, to be included in a forthcoming anthology Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, Envisioning Theory and Practice in Performance (working title) edited by Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique… Read more
In 2012, I encouraged French choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh to meet Eiko. Soon after, so I hear, they talked in a coffee shop. They continued talking whenever Emmanuelle came to New York, sometimes moving together a little. Emmanuelle invited Eiko to… Read more
Ishmael Houston-Jones poses with his Diary of an Image catalogue, which features his DDD: a (very) subjective history. A fellow Gemini, Ishmael met DD Dorvillier when she took his workshop, The Politics of Dancing, as an undergrad at Bennington College.… Read more
THEM / Ishmael Houston-Jones, Chris Cochrane and Dennis Cooper, 1985 / 2010 “There was a time when the Meatpacking District used to be an actual meatpacking district. There were buildings filled with animal carcasses. I remember I had my mind… Read more