Issue #32

Editor’s Letter

One has only to look at an old tape of the original cast of Set and Reset to see Trisha Brown dancing at its best. Something so full-on, rigorously playful...

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: The Berkeley Tree Sitters

So, as I write this, a judge is deciding the fate of the oak trees and the stadium on the faultline, and the new sports building, and the giant parking...

Interview: Ibrahim Quraishi: The Proximity of Subjugation & The Process of Subjectification After ‘Still Life’

PJ: I was thinking we could call this interview “After Still Life” because you just finished that work. So, where are you right now? What are you doing? Ibrahim: I’m...

Profile: K.J. Holmes

K.J. Holmes is a keen observer and listener of process. In conversation with her there are two ways in which the concept of evolution surfaces. One is a general worldview...

Datebook With John Collins of ERS

October 2007 [The infrastructure of ERS] is now a sort of administrative core that consists of Tory and me. Then there are a number of people who come in on...

Dance In Review: ‘No Longer Readymade’ Meg Stuart, Performance Space 122

Meg Stuart’s “No Longer Readymade,” presented on Thursday night, is a stark, sere landscape of a dance. The four performers are like blasted trees, ill-used by the weather. There is...

Visual Art: STOLEN ARTicle

When the choice between lingering in front of a video projector or hitting a half-dozen other galleries is increasingly a cinch, the jolting energy, nerve, and intricacy of twenty-four-year-old Ryan...

Music: 21 Questions for Greg Tate of Burnt Sugar

1. What’s with the name Burnt Sugar? Think of Cuban slave revolts. Sugar plantations burned to the ground. Think of lynchings and strange fruit dangling from the poplar trees. Think...

Interview: Meg Stuart

Performance Journal: Where are you now as you write? Meg Stuart: I am participating in an amazing ten-day project called Flying Circus where artists from Asia, Europe and the States...

Reconquering Territory

We were talking with this article in mind. After only two minutes this is what comes out. She knows better what she wants and why she wants it than I...

I Know What We Did This Summer

We could say that every ideology in command consists of three elements: the reinforcing one, the opposing one, the one proposing something new (else). Each element taken separately has its...

Blessed: Meg Stuart’s Relentless Compassion

I once resolved to write about every dance and theatre performance that had a profound effect on me and that in some way reconciled me to the tragic fate of...

Featured Artists Upcoming Performance Dates 2008

Leah Morrison

The way you move in Trisha Brown’s work captures some elemental quality, a kind of embodiment of her movement aesthetic. Where does that come from? I think a big part...

Production Meeting: Trajal Harrell & Yasuko Yokoshi

YY: I’m really going for it, but no one books me. The funding is there. TH: But why do you think they don’t…? YY: Because they think my work is...

Yves Musard

Brussels: Becoming Room, Becoming Mac: New Artistic Identities in the Transnational Brussels Dance Community

A preliminary version of this text was first given as a lecture within B-Chronicles: A discursive event around mobilities and subjectivities in the dance community presented by Sarma and Damaged...

Production Meeting

tarekhalaby andros is here you want me to add him to the chat? taurelius yes... tarekhalaby added Andros Zinsbrowne to this chat tarekhalaby hey andros, you there? Andros Zinsbrowne im...

Wally Cardona’s SITE

Rachel Bernsen: In SITE , did the objects come first? Wally Cardona: I was just reminded of this recently, that it actually started with Everywhere . In my very first...

Dance Community Picture New York

PICTURED: Adam Weinerf (dancer, choreographer), Adrian Saich (dancer, perfomer), Alberto Denis (dancer, producer, tech), Alberto Ibarguen (audience member), Alexa Weir (dancer), Alexandra Shilling (dancer, choreographer, teacher), Alexandre Roccoli (

Family Portrait

It came like a shot in the dark: an invitation from downtown impresario Jonah Bokaer to show up for a “dance community picture,” on a Sunday afternoon in September. I’m...