Issue #33

Front Cover

Editors' Letters

We’re calling it 30/30 and I must acknowledge that it’s definitely taken from Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s dance entitled 50/50. (Thanks, Mette, for letting us appropriate the title. I know...

News

2008 FELLOWSHIP AWARDS IN DANCE AND PERFORMANCE Alpert Award in the Arts (Herb Alpert Foundation) Awardee in Dance: Pat Graney Award: $75,000, residency and performance opportunities Who gets it: Artists...

CI36: Contact Improvisation's Birthday Extravaganza

CI36 , the 36th birthday celebration of Contact Improvisation co-hosted by Contact Quarterly and Juniata College, took place June 8–18, 2008, on the Juniata College campus in central Pennsylvania. CI...

Crossing the Line 2008: Transfiguring Cultures

Americans and the French, despite their sordid diplomatic history, have found common ground in their desire to foster robust cultural and artistic exchange. When the French Institute and the Alliance...

New York Debut: Christian Rizzo

There are many who have wondered what has taken New York so long to host a work by Christian Rizzo. Those lucky enough to have seen his work in other...

In-Depth: Not about Iraq: Victoria Marks (interviewed by jill sigman)

In March 2008, choreographer Victoria Marks brought her new work Not About Iraq to New York City, where it was presented by Danspace Project. Her overt reference to Neil Greenberg’s...

Production Meeting: Peter Jacobs & Dean Moss

PETER: I’m getting ready to do another walk around here, in the house. DEAN: Oh, great. PETER: Very much in the same genre as what we did, although this time...

Traces of Technique: Soldiers, Dancers and Basic Training

I am sitting in the audience of St Mark’s Church watching Sporen, by the Dutch choreographic duo Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana. Despite my best efforts I can think of...

Visual Art: Stolen ARTicle

Stolen from Participation: Documents of Contemporary Art Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica Letters// 1968-69 Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark shared an intense artistic dialogue throughout their careers. Excerpts of their...

Critical Essay: John Jasperse Defies the Mystique Bringing the Downtown ‘Real’ World to BAM

The first impressions of John Jasperse’s Misuse Liable to Prosecution - a dance work that incorporates a set made of found, borrowed and stolen things - made me think about...

Focus on the Work: Faustin Linyekula; Festival of Lies

There’s a lot to take in at Festival of Lies . It makes you think. Faustin Linyekula/Les Studios Kabako’s maximalist, multi-media piece from the Democratic Republic of Congo (three lies...

Perspective: My First Rites, an Immersion Experience

A tsunami of Rites of Spring hit NYC last fall. Successive waves continue. One weekend, November 15-18, 2007, I saw four versions. (I refer to them later by their parenthetical...

Movement Research 30th Anniversary Portfolio Part 1

PART I Which person outside of the dance field has had the most influence on contemporary dance so far in the 21st century and why? 1 George Bush Morgan Thorson...

Interview: Ralph Lemon

TRAJAL HARRELL: What brings you to Paris? RALPH LEMON: I’ll be in Paris for three months - a ghost, in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts. It’s a re-...

Ralph Lemon’s Young Baldwin Drawings

"No. She couldn’t stay. Nor, she saw now, could she remain away. Leaving, she would have to come back.” Nella Larsen, Quicksand . As Ralph Lemon started research for Come...

Ralph Lemon and the Buck Dance

This is a paper about history and memory – about how a dance might possibly conjure ghosts. It traces Ralph Lemon’s fascination with the fraught historical style of African-American dancing...

The Efflorescence of Ralph

I: (The efflorescence of) Ralph The first thing I noticed about Ralph Lemon was his hands. They were folded and thick, and oddly still. We were at a table with...

Dance in Review: Ralph Lemon’s Search for a Private Nirvana

Ralph Lemon’s recent dance season at the Joyce Theater was something to fax home about. Virtually every aspect of his program of four pieces, including three premieres, was startling. There...

Featured Artists Performance Calendar

CIRCUS AMOK September 6th-28th, Shows are every Wed., Fri., Sat. and Sun. with an additional show on Monday, Sept 8th, Please check www.circusamok.org for exact showtimes, park locations and weather...

Back Cover Photos

movement research Fall 2008 Calendar workshops Beth Goren Novemner 3-7 M T TH F 1-4pm WED 3-5pm Movement Research at Eden's Expressway Katie Duck November 19-21 M-F 2:30-5:30pm Movement Research...