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

As a part of PLATFORM 2012: Judson Now, Melinda Ring curated an evening entitled by Dance by Default, with performances by Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Martin Kersels, and Michael Mahalchick, who, like those of the early Judson Dance Theater, collaborate with choreographers and work with dance in other ways.… Read more

Collaborating with Circumstances Collaborating with Circumstances -the missing topic from the Living Room Conversations event. We dropped it due to time constraints, but I still can’t let it go. It is the secret essential underlying discussion of our recently concluded… Read more

“We’re playing oldies,” a recording at the beginning of Beau Regard announces. And that’s all I’ll give away. You must come out to see this dance for yourself! We’re now entering week two, the retrospective part of our Platform, Susan Rethorst: Retro(intro)spective,… Read more

This morning, May 9th, movers arrived early at Susan Rethorst’s 8th floor apartment on the Lower East Side, put her living room furniture into a truck, drove it to St. Mark’s Church and loaded it into the sanctuary. So her… Read more