Issue #39

Contents

• 2 EDITORS’ LETTERS TRAJAL HARRELL, BUCK WANNER
• 3 IN MEMORIAM: ELLEN “LA MAMA” STEWART
• 4 RAMALLAH CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL KATIE BAER SCHETLICK
• 6 BIG DANCE THEATER: A COMPREHENSIVE AND (PROBABLY) FLAWED CHRONOLOGY
• 8 WHAT FRANCES ALENIKOFF ISN’T TELLING KENNETH KING
• 10 PHOTOGRAPHS SOUMITA BHATTACHARYA
• 12 STOLEN ARTicle: AI WEIWEI
• 13 LEGACY: CATHY EDWARDS KATHY WESTWATER
• 14 THE HIGH MARKS JEROME BEL, CHASE GRANOFF, CAROLYN HALL, KEITH HENNESSY, MELANIE MAAR, RASHAUN MITCHELL, MINA NISHIMURA, KAYVON POURAZAR, OTTO RAMSTAD
• 15 ANTWERP: MARC VANRUNXT DAVID BERGE
• 18 INTERVIEW: AKI SASAMOTO-100% BUCK WANNER
• 20 CENTERFOLD: KAYVON POURAZAR MIANA JUN
• 23 COVER ARTIST PORTFOLIO: XAVIER LE ROY
• 24 INTERVIEW: XAVIER LE ROY ELEANOR BAUER
• 28 XAVIER LE ROY’S LOW PIECES OR, THE OUTSIDE OF DANCE NOEMIE SOLOMON
• 29 TO END WITH JUDGEMENT BY WAY OF CLARIFICATION (REPRINT) BOJANA CVEJIC
• 31 SEEING IS BELIEVING: THE WORK OF XAVIER LE ROY NELL BREYER
• 33 EXCERPTS (BEGINNING AND END) FROM "PRODUCT OF CIRCUMSTANCES" (1999) XAVIER LE ROY
• 34 XAVIER LE ROY: THE DISSENTING CHOREOGRAPHY OF ONE FRENCHMAN LESS (REPRINT) BOJANA CVEJIC
• 37 OEUVRE
• 38 REVIEW: CELESTIAL BODY (REPRINT) MARIE-CHRISTINE VERNAY, TRANSLATED BY SANAZ PARTOVI
• 39 FEATURED ARTISTS CALENDAR

Editorial team

Trajal Harrell

Editor-in-Chief

Moriah Evans

Managing Editor

Troy Lambert/AFROblu

Graphic Design

Buck Wanner

Cover Artist Portfolio

Matthew Lyons, Eleanor Bauer, Cristiane Bouger, Jill Sigman, Buck Wanner, Dana Salisbury

Contributing Editors

Clarinda Mac Low

Copy Editor

Janet Werther

PJ Intern

Sarah Holcman

Production Manager & Ad Layout

Linco Printing, Inc.

Printing