Issue #47
Fall 2015
It’d be unusual for ALL of the artists and cultural practitioners represented in these pages to be in a room together (read: it does not happen). Does this point to a kind of factionalism in our experimental performance community? Does it point to the era of late capitalism’s control of our choices—we do not have time for each other, we must make activity, money and careers? How does it relate to the everyday digital theater of social media’s hyper sharing? What happens when we gather through printed texts (never to appear digitally) as opposed to actual bodies and institutions in space and time…
This points to the choreographic possibilities of print publication.
—Moriah
Editorial team
Editor-In-Chief
Moriah Evans
Associate Editor
Buck Wanner
Managing Editor
Lauren Bakst
Design
David Knowles
Contributing Editor
Samara Davis - Matthew Lyons
Copy Editor
Conor Creaney
Assistant Editor
Racy Brand
Ad Layout
Catherine Galasso
Intern
Nola Sporn Smith
Articles
The Death of the Spectator
C.S. My first question is about the close dialogue between contemporary art and philosophy - thinking about people like Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy and yourself. Why do you think these...
In Depth: Legacy, Lineage, & Liberation of the Pelvis
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar during a break from our current project, Walking with ‘Trane , a meditation on the impact and spirit...
Pedagogy: Donna Faye Burchfield
Donna Faye Burchfield is a rare figure in American dance pedagogy. Throughout her career, from the American Dance Festival to Hollins University to University of the Arts, Burchfield has placed...
Moriah Evans interviews Marýa Wethers
ME: How did you get involved in the dance community? MW: When I was a young kid, I would dance around the house. I had been asking to take dance...
Night Light Bright Light
People couldn’t understand what happened to me. I couldn’t understand what happened to me. And it was those people who couldn’t understand what happened to me that happened to me....
High Marks
Centerfold: koosil-ja
Thanks to Yve Laris Cohen’s Fine I Feel Inspired to Write
Performers think about and work with the built environment just as much as architects do; both are spatial practitioners. Whether it’s working within the confines of a proscenium stage or...
Reading List: Scaffold Room
PAF: Performing Arts Forum—St. Erme, France
For artists of all walks of art. For thinkers and writers. For scientists and media-activists (hackers, political activists) too. Alternatively organized. No staff. Self-organised. Self-check-in and out. No subsidies. PAF...
Space and Place: Building Brooklyn Studios for Dance
Dance in the Age of Electronic Communication (excerpt) by Tatyana Tenenbaum I moved to New York in 2007, as overwhelmed and disoriented as any recent college graduate. I had no...
Focus on the Work: Meredith Monk
In the Spring of 2013 I invited Meredith Monk to come visit my Sophomore class at the Experimental Theater Wing, Undergraduate Drama, NYU. She graciously accepted, and met with what...
Portfolio: Reggie Wilson
Early this summer, when we met with Reggie Wilson (and two members of his company, Rhetta Aleong and Raja Feather Kelly) at his home in Brooklyn to discuss the MRPJ...
Reggie Wilson: Outside the Mainstream-Outside
Reggie Wilson's creative work takes an anthropological approach to sourcing black culture. Like Zora Neal Hurston before him, he researches African American approaches to music and dance creativities and then...
Interview with Reggie Wilson
Radhika Subramaniam: So, Reggie, here we are in your kitchen in Brooklyn. Reggie Wilson: [Laughs] Once again... RS: Once again... I wanted to start our conversation by asking questions that...
Pre-Show Talk: Moses(es)
The following text is an excerpt from a pre-show talk Claudia La Rocco gave for a general audience before Reggie Wilson’s Moses(es) at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas...
Notes on Moses(es)
Reprints: Two Perspectives on Holy
Getting It: A Conversation on the Body as Archive
TAW: The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Reggie Wilson is theRevisitation , an evening-length reworking of past pieces which ran at New York Live Arts...