Critical Correspondence
Scott Heron and Thomas Hauert in conversation with Marisa König Beatty
Choreographer/producer Marisa Konig Beatty talks with dancer/choreographers Scott Heron and Thomas Hauert about their collaborative work “Like me more like me,” which premiered in Charleroi, Belgium in November 2011. Although they come from different countries and backgrounds, Hauert and Heron share a mistrust of social and aesthetic conventions and a love of intense physicality.
Chase Granoff, Clarinda MacLow and Larissa Velez-Jackson in conversation with Levi Gonzalez
Levi Gonzalez speaks with Movement Research 2011 Spring Festival curators Clarinda MacLow, Chase Granoff and Larissa Velez-Jackson about their curatorial process and their experiences during the festival June 2-6, 2011.
Young Jean Lee in conversation with Caleb Hammons
Young Jean Lee, playwright and director, talks with producer Caleb Hammons about her new work, “The Untitled Feminist Show,” now at the Baryshnikov Arts Center through February 4, 2012, as part of the COIL Festival. They discuss Young Jean’s approach to movement practice and the complications of naming and crediting a “Nearly Wordless Show.”
Yelena Gluzman in conversation with Lydia Bell
CC Editor Lydia Bell interviews artist Yelena Gluzman, co-editor of Emergency INDEX, a new book series dedicated to documenting performance. Over e-mail, they discuss INDEX’s unique approach to texts that address the gap in critical dialogue around performance practice. For those who want to document a performance they made and performed in 2011, submissions are open until January 3, 2012.
Clifford Owens in conversation with Lydia Bell
CC Editor Lydia Bell talked with artist Clifford Owens in his studio as he was working on Anthology, an exhibition of performance scores that is on view at MoMA PS1 through March 12, 2012. On Saturday, December 17 from 2-4pm, Owens will perform selected scores from Anthology.
Laura Arrington in conversation with Milka Djordjevich
Choreographer and CC Editor, Milka Djordjevich speaks with San Francisco-based choreographer Laura Arrington, to confer about the creative process for her newest work Wag. The work premiere’s as a part of a shared evening with Bay Area artist Jesse Hewit. Their shared evening, The Dog Show, takes place at Z Space in San Francisco, December 8-11, 2011. The artists discuss making dance on both coasts, the value of an audience, and how language breeds expectations.
Jesse Hewit in conversation with Milka Djordjevich
Choreographer and CC Editor, Milka Djordjevich, sits down with San Francisco-based artist and performer, Jesse Hewit, before his upcoming performance, Freedom, as a part of a shared evening with fellow Bay Area choreographer, Laura Arrington. The shared evening, The Dog Show, takes place at Z Space in San Francisco, December 8-11, 2011. They discuss Hewit’s creative process, dance making insecurities, and the many meanings collaboration takes in artistic development.
Perypezye Urbane in conversation with Critical Correspondence
Milan based organization Perypezye Urbane invited Milka Djordjevich, Ursula Eagly, Walter Dundervill and Jenn Rosenblit to present solo works in the 4th edition of the Solo in Azione Festival in Milan, Italy July 2-4, 2011. Organized in collaboration with Movement Research, the title of the 2011 edition of the festival was I like America and America likes me, recalling the title of the Joseph Beuys work. Critical Correspondence asked founders Giovanni Sabelli Fioretti and Giuseppe Esposito a few questions about the organization and in addition included are photos and a video documenting the experience.
Emily Johnson in conversation with Anna Marie Shogren
Anna Marie Shogren, a Brooklyn-based artist and dancer converses with Minneapolis choreographer Emily Johnson about naming, homesickness, and the emotional lives of places. Johnson will perform The Thank-you Bar, named for her grandparents’ bar in Alaska, at New York Live Arts this November 9-12.
Jonathan Burrows in conversation with Milka Djordjevich
CC guest editor Milka Djordjevich interviews choreographer Jonathan Burrows about his body of work in collaboration with composer Matteo Fargion. Their first trilogy of works Both Sitting Duet (2002), The Quiet Dance (2005), and Speaking Dance (2006) and the first two pieces of their most recent trilogy, Cheap Lecture (2009) and The Cow Piece (2009), will be presented at Danspace Project November 3-5, 2001 in collaboration with Janet Panetta, curator of International Dance Dialogues, and Performa 11.
Jumana Dabis, Amal Khatib and Farah Saleh in conversation with Katie Baer Schetlick
Katie Baer Schetlick interviews Jumana Dabis, Amal Khatib and Farah Sale, dancers who she met in Ramallah, Palestine during the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. This is the second in a series of interviews initiated by Schetlick documenting her experience at the festival. Dabas, Khatib and Sale discuss, via Facebook, dancing with Sareyyet Ramallah, a contemporary Palestianian dance group. For more information about dance in Ramallah, please visit www.foundmovements.com.
Heather Kravas in conversation with Jodi Bender
Following the success of her most recent work, The Green Surround, Heather Kravas has bravely delved into a new solo to premiere at Danspace Project on a shared bill with Jeremy Wade, October 5-7, 2011. She talked to dancer Jodi Bender about the vulnerability involved in her creative process, stepping outside yourself, and Kassidy Chism, the real-life YouTube phenom for who Kravas’s newest solo is inspired by.
Dewey Dell (Agata Castellucci, Demetrio Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci and Eugenio Resta) in conversation with Mark McCloughan
Named for the small girl in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the members of Dewey Dell are a collective of theatre artists from Cesena, Italy. In September they made their U.S. debut at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts. Philadelphia-based director and performer Mark McCloughan, Co-Artistic Director of No Face Performance Group, talked with Agata Castellucci, Demetrio Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci and Eugenio Resta about the intricate relationship between movement, music and design in their work.
Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey in Conversation with Dillon de Give
Critical Correspondence asked artist and dance outsider Dillon de Give (Brooklyn) to interview choreographers Wally Cardona (Brooklyn) & Jennifer Lacey (Paris) about their new collaborative creation TOOL IS LOOT premiering September 22-October 1st at the Kitchen. They discuss “the culmination of a year-long process of aesthetic disorientation” where each artist solicited week-long encounters with non-dance experts: an astrophysicist, a sommelier, a visual artist, an architect, a film editor, a medical supply salesman, a kinetic sculptor, a baroque opera singer, an art critic, a group of acousticians and a social activist.
Moving Dialogue: Madalina Dan in conversation with Cristiane Bouger
In December 2010 the National Center of Dance Bucharest – CNDB lost its facilities located at the National Theater of Bucharest (Teatrul National din Bucuresti). The space claimed by the institution inside the National Theater was officially established in 2004 when it was founded as a public institution subsidized by the former Minister of Culture Razvan Theodorescu. CNDB is the only contemporary dance institution in Romania supported by state funds. This interview reflects issues inspired by Cristiane Bouger’s conversation with the choreographer Madalina Dan during the Moving Dialogue Exchange in Bucharest. It sets light on some of the difficulties and outcomes brought by this new challenging context, as well as the impact of it on her own artistic work.
