Issue #35

Editor's Letter: Issue #35

I think it was the performance artist Penny Arcade whom I heard speak about the fact that it takes about thirteen to sixteen years of the next century for the...

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FIRST iLAND SYMPOSIUM: DANCING URBAN DANCING GREEN For anyone who doesn’t yet know about Jennifer Monson’s iLAND organization or its annual iLAB art/science residency, here is an introduction: “Through the...

Follow-up: Dis-Organization: Sweet and Tender Collaborations and the Possibilities of Loosely Coordinated Group Action

The following is an excerpt from a presentation delivered at Independent Network’s symposium on cultural management: Istanbul, 2008. Sweet and Tender Collaborations began with a conversation in 2006, when a...

In-Depth: CPAU, Get Ready!

DD Dorvillier / human future dance corps presented Choreography, a Prologue for the Apocalypse of Understanding, Get Ready! at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC, in January 2009. The piece opened with...

Project Page: Melinda Ring + Jennifer Nelson

Note: In the original print issue, the text and images overlap in a collage-style layout. Day #4 - Elementary Psychedelia To build a vocabulary to communicate with the pigeons, we...

oTto + oLive: The Body Cartography Project

In the aftermath of the first ever Body Cartography Project, a festival of 23 site-specific events around Wellington, New Zealand, BCP director Olive Bieringa wrote, “The traditional theatre seems all...

5 Questions: Luis Lara Malvacias and Jeremy Nelson

WHAT DRIVES YOUR COLLABORATION? Jeremy: I think that since we are partners in our lives we talk a lot - we of course discuss our ideas about dance and art...

DVD Review: “Downtown Dance”

I was not really sure what to expect when I popped in director Kathryn Sullivan’s documentary series titled Downtown Dance . (Volumes 1 and 2 are the ones I took...

Making Dance to Survive Torture

My company, Irish Modern Dance Theatre , has interesting dancers: Ashley, Cheryl, Derry - all ex Cunningham - plus Becky, James, Philip - fierce, passionate Irish dancers. Then in 2003,...

Out of La Negrura Out of Blackness

Pepatian is the producer of Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness, a collaborative dance theater project which began literally from a dream of “Bessie” award-winning choreographer Merian Soto. We were...

Interview: Keith Hennessy

It’s a pleasure for me to introduce the Canadian-born, San Francisco-based artistic dynamo known as Keith Hennessy, since we’ve been close friends for 17 years. We met in 1991 at...

Finding Cool Forms for Hot Content

Keith Hennessy is an escape artist who is breaking boundaries considerably more restraining than handcuffs, straightjackets or coffins. He is railing—passionately, relentlessly and with impressive theatrical know-how–against confinement that imprisons

Joseph Beuys, Keith’s “Crotch”, and ‘I’

With a performance as headily referential and queerly textured as Keith Hennessy’s Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world cannot heal the pain, regret, trauma, or betrayal…) ,...

Reprint: How to Remember a Show... a response to HOW TO DIE (Comment Mourir) by Keith Hennessy

1. Take the DVD on which the show is recorded, a pair of scissors and a red marker pen. 2. Cut the DVD into as many pieces as there are...

Love Letter to Joah Lowe

Keith Hennessy, Nov 04 Dear listener, dear living dancer, dear dead dancer, dear Joah Lowe: To write a love letter is to willingly open memory’s door. To invite the images...

Dance in Review: How to Die Manifestival: Dance Brigade’s Festival for Social Change

Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA November 12, 2006 Keith Hennessey is not for the faint of heart. His work is raw, sexually explicit and violent. It’s also optimistic, romantic...

Project Page: Lewis Forever

Centerfold: In Memoriam: Pina Bausch

Festival: After Grand Union: conversation following screening at Performa 07

Trajal: I don’t think we should try to reconstruct the conversation we had last night. I think we should have another conversation, but maybe we should use a point from...

Festival: Performa

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Futurist Manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909, Performa, directed by RoseLee Goldberg, organized a special Futurist...

Stolen ARTicle: Visual Art: A Show About Nothing

PARIS — There is a show in town that everybody should see. “Voids, a Retrospective,” which runs through March 23 at the Centre Pompidou, is not listed in the official...

Feature: Rehabilitating the Last Dirty Word

Throughout my 50s, I got stronger and clearer, more flexible of mind and perhaps still of body. Now I’ve begun to age quickly. The things I consider and choose to...

Six Sides, Topologically Distinct: Black Box / White Cube: A.L. Steiner and Ann Liv Young

A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collaboration, performance and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a cynical, queer, eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective...

Production Meeting: Miguel Gutierrez’s “Last Meadow”

PERFORMANCE JOURNAL: Miguel, would you begin by telling us what are the questions and core concerns that started this process as a director? MG: One question was in relation to...

Focus on the Work: Yvonne Meier

Leslie Satin: You just performed Stolen , a new piece, at Danspace Project with Arturo Vidich and Aki Sasamoto. Like many of your pieces, it included an array of props—most...

The Artists Formerly Known as Chameckilerner

DEATH NOTICE ChameckiLerner, the Brazilian-born, New York-based dance company, died on Tuesday, May 2, 2007, at the Kitchen, an historic performance space in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City....