Issue #39
Summer 2011
Editorial team
Cover Artist
Xavier Le Roy
Editor-In-Chief
Trajal Harrell
Managing Editor
Moriah Evans
Buck Wanner - Sarah Holcman - Troy Lambert
Copy Editor
Clarinda Mac Low
Intern
Janet Werther
Contributing Editor
Matthew Lyons - Eleanor Marie Bauer - Cristiane Bouger - Jill Sigman - Buck Wanner - Dana Salisbury
Articles
In Memoriam: Ellen “La Mama” Stewart
Festival: Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival
Up three flights of stone stairs and into a room floored with tile. Skylights splash a faint glow on a row of chairs filled with scholars, dancers, choreographers, educators and...
Datebook: Big Dance Theater: A Comprehensive and (Probably) Flawed Chronology
1990 Sacrifice: While doing sound design and making dances for an experimental theater company, I meet Paul Lazar and Molly Hickok, performers in the company. They agree to work with...
Follow-Up: What Frances Alenikoff Isn’t Telling
Arriving for a rehearsal at Eden’s Expressway at 537 Broadway in Soho on a Saturday afternoon in February, 1997, I bypass the claustrophobically slow elevator and head up the four...
Photographs
Stolen Article: Ai Weiwei
Legacy: Kathy Westwater & Cathy Edwards
Cathy Edwards and Kathy Westwater recently got together to talk about the beginning of Cathy's work at Movement Research in the early 1990s. This conversation continues threads that emerged during...
Antwerp: Marc Vanrunxt
Marc Vanrunxt (b. 1960) has been active as a dancer and choreographer, mainly in Belgium since the early 1980s. He is a compatriot and a part of "the new Belgian...
Interview: Aki Sasmoto 100%
Aki Sasamoto is an artist living in NYC working in visual and performance disciplines. Her artistic activities are multiple and varied, as are her connections to dance. She danced with...
Centerfold: Kayvon Pourazar
Name: Kayvon Pourazar Started Dancing: London, 1991, at British Record Industry Trust School of Performing Arts Recent Productions: The Making of Americans (Juliette Mapp), Glen Girl Galler (Gwen Welliver), Tyler...
Xavier Le Roy: Interview with Eleanor Bauer
In July 2011, Eleanor Bauer interviewed Xavier Le Roy in Avignon, where the Festival d'Avignon presented both Le Roy's solo Product of Other Circumstances and his latest group work low...
Xavier Le Roy’s Low Pieces (1), or The Outside of Dance
The dance shifts toward its outside: it departs from its comfort zone, its assigned territory. As the audience arrives, the performers are sitting at the front edge of the stage,...
To End With Judgement By Way Of Clarification
Xavier Le Roy: we cannot escape this terminology any longer what is your understanding of conceptual dance? What is it in relationship to dance? In relationship to Conceptual art? When...
Seeing Is Believing: The Work of Xavier Le Roy
Why does Xavier Le Roy’s work persist in the imagination long after it has been performed? What makes his dances something we want to mull over, stew in, chew on?...
Excerpts From Product of Circumstances (1999) Text
This performance was originally presented in a theatre [Podewil Berlin] and can be presented in any situation allowing an audience in front of a stage and a screen for slide...
Xavier Le Roy: The Dissenting Choreography of One Frenchman Less
Xavier Le Roy has conceived and presented his work as contemporary dance signed by a French choreographer, as opposed to disseminating it under the banner of French dance per se....
Review: Celestial Body
CELESTIAL BODY by Marie-Christine Vernay, Reprinted from: Libération (Paris) CULTURE, Monday June 23rd 1997, p.32 The CHOREO-GRAPHIQUE in Tours. At the peak of an innovative program, Xavier Leroy pushes the...