Critical Correspondence
Janine Antoni in conversation with Abigail Levine
Artist Janine Antoni speaks of her recent engagement with dance and with choreographers, including Annie B, Parson, Jill Sigman, Stephen Petronio and Anna Halprin. Antoni describes herself as new to dance, although her artistic practice has always centered on the body. Movement improvisation, she says, acts as an accelerator of her artistic process; when she […]
Annie-B Parson and Sibyl Kempson in conversation with Aaron Mattocks
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Critical Correspondence co-editor Aaron Mattocks met with Annie-B Parson (co-artistic director, Big Dance Theater) and playwright Sibyl Kempson in Chelsea to discuss their collaboration, Ich, Kürbisgeist, which was a co-commission of Performance Space 122 and The Chocolate Factory, and which had a three week run in October and November. The production recently closed, surviving Hurricane Sandy, a presidential election and a freak overnight blizzard. The two women spoke about aspects of their creative practice, revealed telling anecdotes about craft, religion, doom and disaster, and making work that is ultimately, sometimes unknowingly, personal.
