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See our plansCan gender be performed? This question has preoccupied theorists, spanning the gamut from psychoanalysis to postmodernism, yet it remains elusive. Sigmund Freud offered essentialist conceptions of gender identity rooted in...
It is an impossible task trying to translate a dictionary of Vietnamese slangs and idioms around gender and sexuality, whose melodic playfulness and visceral imageries operate on a vastly different...
I was a dancer before I was a DJ. And I was a medium before I was a dancer. Increasingly over the last years, and almost certainly accelerated by the...
I first visited St. Mark's Church in 1973, before there was a Danspace Project, to watch a rehearsal of Meredith Monk-I think it was Songs from the Hill. I was...
You know that saffron color of food in windows poised in Puerto Rican diners on Canal Street? That's the color of my memory of the first moment Mary Overlie mentioned...
This photograph, with no visual clues as to when it was taken, overwhelms me. There's Peter as he always appeared, slightly hunched over, preparing to shoot from the choir loft,...
When it finally becomes impossible to take your friends to the places you cherished as a child, because those places no longer exist, then you truly feel the insanity, tenacity,...
I love the words Movement Research. Twenty years for me and Movement Research. We share this anniversary. I taught during Movement Research's first year (spring '79) and many thereafter, a...
After the collective (Beth Goren, Danny Lepkoff, Christie Svane, Cynthia Hedstrom. Wendell Beavers and Mary Overlie), after Cynthia Hedstrom, after Wendell Beavers in the administrative chair, along came me: the...
Having written down a memory -a memoir-several years ago, I have no delusions that it is actually history. Memory is not history. Sometimes this is easy to forget so I...
Time is configured for us in many ways: astronomical movements, clocks, calendars. Subjectively we have sensations, suppers, and friends who create our eras, our memories of a time in a...
I. Introduction Memories exist as wordless images, ghosts of sensation that come back as strong as the original sensation, three-dimensional experiential blocks of time, re-experienced instantaneously when the memory is...
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