The 2020 Conversations Without Walls digital series launches with two pre-recorded conversations broadcasted on YouTube Live: Ishmael Houston-Jones and Carol Mullins on Saturday, August 29th at 12pm ET and Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake on Saturday, September 12th at… Read more
Curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Jenn Joy, Conversations Without Walls began as a series of dialogues on contemporary choreographic practice. Mutual Seductions, held on November 5, 2011, specifically addressed the relationship between dance and visual art. Participants included Connie Butler,… Read more
These are emotional times, turbulent on many fronts. Just to clarify my post was written after the first two weekends of Some Sweet Day (including performances by Jerome Bel/Steve Paxton, Faustin Linyekula/Dean Moss/Kevin Beasley) and before Sarah Michelson and Deborah… Read more
Mutual Seductions with participants: Connie Butler, DD Dorvillier, Mika Rottenberg, Suzanne Bocanegra, Jenny Schlenzka, Brennan Gerard, Ryan Kelly, Mika Tajima, Huffa Frobes-Cross, Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion. Moderated by Jenn Joy. Followed by questions with Judy Hussie-Taylor. …to continue from where we… Read more
Thoughts following Conversations without Walls Ecstatic Alliances, Saturday, October 1, 2011 Participants: Judy Hussie-Taylor, Ishmael Houston-Jones, David Parker, Melinda Ring, Ralph Lemon, Jeremy Wade, Tim Griffin, Dean Moss. Moderated by Jenn Joy. To continue the conversation… THANK YOU again to all of… Read more
11.1.2010 Panel discussion for Para-dice (Stage 1) with Patricia Hoffbauer, George Emilio Sanchez, André Lepecki, Randy Martin, and May Joseph (Wednesday, 27 October 2010) Para-dice (Stage 1), Patricia Hoffbauer (2010) The Adventure Performs The Adventure? (2010) What is the choreographic role of the critical… Read more
10.22.2010 DD Dorvillier/human future dance corps, No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” (2005) “…this state of insecurity is not natural but constructed—a political condition produced by a power on whose favor we depend and which we can only petition. To… Read more
10.8.2010. Blog 3 Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud, Sylphides (2009) and Pâquerette (2006, revised 2007, 2008) “The sublime is a feeling, and yet, more than a feeling in the banal sense, it is the emotion of the subject at the limit. The subject of… Read more
10.1.2010 DARIA FAÏN, Working with Stockhausen’s Stimmung 1968 (2010) AITANA CORDERO, Solo…? (2008) “…with you or alone no languages only grunts moans murmurs chattering teeth shuffling only sounds no languages with meanings no words or signifying gestures…” —DD Dorvillier, Choreography, a Prologue for the… Read more
Blog entry. 9.27.10. certain difficulties, certain joy What do we know when we approach dance? What are the certainties that lie in wait when we arrive? What are the specific kinds of joy or pleasure in dance, in dancing, in… Read more