Issue #31
Summer 2007
Editorial team
Editor-In-Chief
Trajal Harrell
Managing Editor
Jill Sigman
Contributing Editor
Darrah Carr - Eleanor Marie Bauer - Alejandra Martorell - Levi Gonzalez
Assistant Editor
Rachel Bernsen
Lindsey Rose - Brooke Belott - Troy Lambert
Copy Editor
Clarinda Mac Low - Brooke Belott
Ad Layout
Mathew Heggem - Lindsey Rose
Articles
Editor’s Letter
I can only say that I approach this task as I have every journal I’ve worked on — as a guest artist editor. Who I am as an artist —...
News
DCA: BIG CHANGES TAKING PLACE IN FUNDING Big changes are happening at the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the arm of New York City’s government that provides funding to the...
Editorial: Dance in San Francisco Observations and Attitudes
San Francisco, the left coast, the endpoint of western expansion and escape. Being a port town means we get more than our share, fortunately, of faggots and whores, hippies and...
Editorial: Was denkt...
Walking on the streets of Kyoto I bumped into a group of girls all dressed in the same style – mini skirt, tall high heel boots, hair dyed blond (all...
Festival: mark your calendars! tba festival 2007
Now in its fifth year, the Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) presented by Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) in Portland, Oregon is an annual convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music,...
The Right to Move
How do we, as dance practitioners, value contemporary social dance forms? While millions of Americans tune in every week to watch “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Dancing with...
An Interview With Juliette Mapp
To take one of Juliette Mapp’s classes is to constantly evaluate your place in the world. Old habits are left at the door and risks are encouraged. Often she tells...
Focus on The Work: The Carnality of Bodies
Brazilian artist Lia Rodrigues creates a singular form of intimacy through the carnality of bodies, achieving distinctive political and aesthetic discourses through her dance1. Aquilo de que somos feitos (Such...
The Existence of Which Nobody Must be Allowed to Suspect
TEHRAN, IRAN This project was done in Tehran, Iran in different parts of the city in Winter 1383 (Feb. 2005). During five days or so, six people asked people in...
Criticism: Techno Gender Body
When I was first asked to submit this piece for re-publication, I hesitated. Even though it has only been a few years since I wrote it, I feel that decades...
Feature: Hollins is Here
At Chez Bushwick on a Sunday night in December 2005, hosts Emily Wexler and Meredith Glisson chorused introductions, and dancer-choreographers, fellow graduates of Hollins University, confidently took the floor. Their...
Production Meeting: Daria Fain & Jennifer Lacey
DF: There was something about the relationship with the body that we were talking about. Do you remember? JL: I remember saying that when I was in Paris when I...
Documenta 12
Every five years, the art world works itself up into a state of anticipation for the arrival of documenta, arguably the most important international art exhibition in the world. Situated...
Method Monster
“Method” seems to be a popular word lately in performance-making discourses. Perhaps this is simply because the old process-versus-product issue and all of its anti-capitalist demi-politics are still making their...
Diary: An Irreverent Reverence of the Reverence (irreverence) Festival
Tuesday May 29 Lots of people are here for MR at the Judson Church. Of course The Dance Debate starts late. Our crowd tends to treat time like a bad...
Profile: Swan or Swan Song?
Enter . David Thomson didn’t set out to become a dancer. He was just interested in the feel of moving his body. He was not a particularly physical person growing...
Project Page: Maria Hassabi
Before there was Dia:Beacon, the art world cognoscenti made pilgrimages to Marfa, Texas to lay eyes on the perfect wonder of Donald Judd. This minimalist pioneer went to Marfa in...
Berlin: “where did the name lucky trimmer come from” MRPJ gets its answer from Clint Lutes
Performance Journal: where are you now? Clint Lutes: berlin. PJ: when did you move to berlin? CL: summer 2002. PJ: you went directly to berlin after finishing undergrad at nyu?...
Tere O’Connor
Stolen Article
Trying desperately not to join the eternal lament of the over-bureaucratization of higher education in Britain, I turn my hand instead to see its ‘potentiality.’ This may allow me to...
Personalcommotion: on the ocasion of being asked to review tere o’connor’s “baby,” which I largely ignore
“It is not interesting at this point in human time to portray the real world as it seems to be on its own terms, but it is interesting to unfold,...
Literary Lives, Kinetic Conundrums: The Influence of Writing, Literature, and Literary Structure on the Works of Douglas Dunn and Tere O’Connor
I have long been fascinated by the work of choreographers Douglas Dunn and Tere O’Connor. I view them as sensual formalists who create defamiliarized, movement-based worlds complete with laws, rituals,...
Tere O’Connor Interviewed by Cynthia Hedstrom
Cynthia Hedstrom: Let’s go back to the beginning…you were a student of theatre at Purchase, you got involved in dance there, you left to dance professionally and then very quickly...
“Warming Scenes of Winter”
Reprint from the Village Voice, April 5, 1988.
Rammed Earth
Tere O’Connor’s newest work, Rammed Earth , will premiere in September 2007 at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and later in September at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City,...
In-Depth: Performance (career ender)
Trajal: The first thing I wanted to talk about is how the piece is a diptych. Claude: What makes it a diptych? The two—the live and the projected? Trajal: It...
Impressions of The Fall 2006 Season: excerpted from Critical Correspondence
CHRYSA PARKINSON INCUBATOR , by Philipp Gehmacher, premiered 2006. Performed by: Sabina Holzer, David Subal, Clara Cornil and Philipp Gehmacher. Like having your brain licked by distant rabbits. A few...
From Utrecht to Tempe
PERFORMANCE JOURNAL: So you’re coming to the U.S. we hear? Under what circumstances? SIMON DOVE: Happy ones…I have accepted the post of Chair of Herberger College Dance at Arizona State...
From New York City to Dublin
Performance Journal: So, we want to say congratulations on your new post. When do you start? Laurie Uprichard: Officially, the first of August. PJ: And can you tell us what...