Issue #41

Editor's Letter: Issue #41

Editor's Letter So, “Judson”: A place, an ideology, a historic artist collective, a present-day performance series. All of these Judsons live in this edition of the Performance Journal. This issue...

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KINEBAGO, A Tour of Movement Arts in New England Edited by Sara Smith, Latest Issue: Issue No. 2, Winter/Spring 2012, $6, www.kinebago.com KINEBAGO is a collection of essays, conversations, interviews,...

Interview Tim Griffin at The Kitchen

Moriah Evans: So who are you? Tim Griffin: I am Tim Griffin, Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Kitchen. But you were asking before if I had a background...

Black Box / White Cube: Yve Laris Cohen and Mika Tajima

Mika Tajima: We are both interrogating how the body is shaped, formed, or constrained by architecture and by form. In your recent work Coda, an installation with performance on view...

The Hudson Movement

In 1981 I had a beautiful boyfriend from Italy named Enzo Cosimi. He loved me very much and I him. He was studying in New York for two years at...

Infidel

I’m an atheist. A culturally Jewish atheist, completely opposed to organized religion. I always feel the need to say this whenever I am asked about Judson, where I worked for...

Judson Regulars

STEVE STASO calls himself an anti-artist and anti-filmmaker. He has been going to three out of four Monday night perfor-mances at Judson every month since the 1990s. At first, he...

Object, Image, Movement

From the Ballets Russes through Merce Cunningham, the histories of twentieth-century visual art and dance overlap through the regular collaborations by some of the major figures from both realms. These...

Fabulous Freddy

...At certain junctures [Freddy Herko] made the kind of contributions to the Judson concerts that were essential to the spleen of the movement. I recall with wry affection his Little...

The Future of Contact Improvisation: Amanda Abrams Interviews Nancy Stark Smith

Contact improvisation—a movement form based on weight-sharing—was created by Steve Paxton and first performed by him and several students at Oberlin College in 1972. Nancy Stark Smith was among the...

The Show Must Go On @ MoMA

MRPJ: When was the last time your presented one of your pieces in NYC? Also, when was the last time that you presented The Show Must Go On in New...

Interview: Moriah Evans and Asad Raza

This interview is a departure from much of the content in the MRPJ. Usually, we feature conversations with people who are practitioners of dance and choreography. I decided to take...

Who is Rudy Perez?

When I asked choreographer Chris Yon earlier this year about Rudy Perez, Yon’s first dance teacher, he said something that stuck with me: “Rudy is the choreographic grandfather you didn’t...

Rudy Perez in Conversation With Chris Yon

Rudy Perez talked with Chris Yon at Rudy’s apartment in Hollywood, California on May 22 and May 29, 2012. Chris first met Rudy as a student in Rudy’s class at...

“Still Waters Run Deep”: The Minimalist Explorations of Rudy Perez

In 1963, Rudy Perez choreographed his first work, Take Your Alligator With You, which he presented at the Judson Dance Theater in Concert #7, alongside artists such as Trisha Brown,...

Review: “The Stillness of Rudy Perez”

In the summer of 1952, at Black Mountain College, John Cage engineered a now-famous theater event. Above the collage of simultaneously performed dance, poetry, piano music and recorded music were...

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