Issue #38
Winter 2011
Editorial team
Cover Artist
Ishmael Houston-Jones
Editor-In-Chief
Trajal Harrell
Managing Editor
Moriah Evans
Copy Editor
Clarinda Mac Low - Tom Jacobs
Intern
Janet Werther
Sarah Holcman - Troy Lambert
Contributing Editor
Matthew Lyons - Eleanor Marie Bauer - Cristiane Bouger - Jill Sigman - Buck Wanner - Dana Salisbury
Articles
The Executive Artistic Director of the new New York Live Arts, Bill T. Jones
PJ: In your estimation what are the three most significant challenges facing the dance community today? BILL T. JONES : Mm. Well, I think that dance has decided that it...
Festival: La Mama Moves!
La MaMa Moves!, now in it’s 6th year, is the annual dance festival put on by the famed La MaMa theater on the lower east side. Founded by Ellen Stewart...
Editorial: New York’s Alright
I think dance in New York City is good about 10% of the time. Right now that is enough for me. I’ve been in NYC since 2000. I went to...
20 Questions For Alex Roccoli
1. Where are you now? I am now in between Paris and Lyon. Mainly in Paris. 2. Weren’t you just in Lyon? Yes, ‘cause I am, as I said, “in...
Project Page: Elizabeth Ward
Dear Dancers and Choreographers, Artists and Movement Lovers, This letter to you began with an invitation to a project page and then the suggestion/cheer: “Make it radical, you can do...
Late Night Meeting: Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez
[1/10/11 8:34:53 PM] Levi Gonzalez: Hi Amanda! [1/10/11 8:35:06 PM] Amanda Loulaki: hi there [1/10/11 8:42:08 PM] Levi Gonzalez: How do you feel your recent remount of the piece is...
Interview: Ishmael Houston Jones
The beginning and final sections of this interview were lost due to mechanical problems. What appears in print is a long segment of a longer conversation. ELENA ALEXANDER: PS 122...
Map To My Manhattan Past
Excerpts From the Writings of Ishmael Houston-Jones: Score for Dead and Dead / Prologue to the End of Everything
SCORE FOR D E A D DEAD is a solo dance/performance piece created 8 June 1981 as part of a celebration of my 30th birthday. A. On the evening before...
Reprint: Crossing the Great Divides
The first time I experienced Ishmael Houston-Jones’s score,The Politics of Dancing, was in Berlin at the 1988 European Contact Teachers Conference. In his afternoon workshop by the same name, he...
Untitled Duet (aka Oogala)
Untitled Duet (aka Oogala) Fred Holland and I performed a 17-minute improvisation at the Danspace Project at Saint Mark's Church, NYC in 1983 at the 10th anniversary of Contact Improvisation....
Reprint: Review: Part 2: Relatives
Dance Magazine (January 1981) Philadelphia’s Ishmael Houston-Jones and his mentor-collaborator, Terry Fox, shared a program at the Cunningham Studio (September 27-28). Fox liked “citizens”— dancers and non-dancers juxtaposed. Houston-Jones, reflectin
Reprint: A La Recherche des Tricks Perdue
Ishmael Houston-Jones has described Them , a new work seen in its entirety at PS 122, as an investigation of the aggression, violence, and need for tenderness, as well carnality,...
In-Depth: Alain Buffard’s Les Inconsoles
This past October, Dance Theater Workshop presented the American premiere of French choreographer Alain Buffard’s Les Inconsolés, a dark trio from 2005. The hour-long work was developed and is performed...
Interview: Noemi Segerra with Jane Gabriels
Noemi Segarra was selected to be part of The Young Roots performance series at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund...