Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. A PDF transcript of the conversation linked here. This Conversation Without Walls (CWW) was recorded on November 10, 2020 and first broadcasted on YouTube Live Saturday,… Read more
A version of this chronology appears in Danspace Project’s gallery guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer, held at Danspace Project over June 23 – July 1, 2017. In 2011, I… 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
When Judy asked me if I would introduce tonight’s honorees, Joan Jonas and Yvonne Rainer, I didn’t hesitate for a minute. Both of them are long-time friends. I’ve written about the work of both. I teach my students about their… Read more
Bid on art & support Danspace Project! Our silent auction features works by Joana Avillez, Paul Chan, Joan Jonas, Babette Mangolte, Ryan McNamara & Jen Rosenblit, Peter Moore, Yvonne Rainer, Xaviera Simmons, and Pat Steir. Browse the auction and bid here!… Read more
Danspace Project invited several artists and practitioners from our community to participate as Respondents in a series of written reflections on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets. This series shares a wide range of perspectives on the… Read more
Danspace Project invited several artists and practitioners from our community to participate as Respondents in a series of written reflections on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets. This series shares a wide range of perspectives on the… Read more
First off, I would like unequivocally and with utmost affection to assert that Steve Paxton is a Grand Old Man of post-modern dance. With that said and without offering definitive proof, let me proceed by giving an example of… Read more
onlycolorandlight: Diagram of artistic influences created by Yvonne Rainer in response to a July 1980 New Yorker article about the avant-garde dance community. Yvonne Rainer papers, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles