Critical Correspondence
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.
Marissa Perel on Conversation Without Walls: Mutual Seductions
Artist Marissa Perel writes about November’s Conversation Without Walls at Danspace Project, entitled Mutual Seductions, which “presented a complex matrix of relationships between choreographers, theorists, visual artists and curators. A succession of three panel discussions developed and moderated by theorist/writer Jenn Joy, it was not only a space of conversation and investigation into ideas, but also a space of reflection for all of the speakers involved, which proved to be as challenging as it was insightful.”
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.
Deganit Shemy in conversation with Stephanie Miracle
Stephanie Miracle (Washington D.C.) and Deganit Shemy (Israel/NYC) discuss Shemy’s working process for 2 kilos of sea, which will be presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, September 15-17. Miracle, a former dancer of Shemy’s, remembers that “There was a sense that the work already existed and we just needed to encounter it.”
Jesse Darling and Jody Wood in conversation
Artists Jesse Darling (London, UK) and Jody Wood (Brooklyn, NY) discuss what they are working on during an August residency at Genesis Project in Brooklyn. Genesis Project (a program of Culture Push, directed by Arturo Vidich) is a short-term, intensive residency program for body-based, interdisciplinary artists. You can visit Genesis Project and see work-in-progress by […]
Lindsay Benedict in conversation with Will Rawls
Brooklyn-based choreographer Will Rawls interviews Lindsay Benedict, a multi-media artist who works in film, photography, and performance. They discuss, via g-chat, Lindsay’s recent performance interventions in France and Italy, which gather community members for social movement events that inspire awkwardness and cultural exchange.
Rebecca Davis in conversation with Jodi Bender
Jodi Bender, who has performed with Rebecca Davis for the past year, talks with Rebecca about her work with Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, the artists who are representing the United States at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Rebecca choreographed the solos for gymnasts that are performed on Allora & Calzadilla’s sculptures.
Movement Research Spring Festival 2010 Hardcorps curators in conversation with Levi Gonzalez
Artist curators Walter Dundervill, Melanie Maar, Aki Sasamoto and AL Steiner speak with choreographer Levi Gonzalez about curating last year’s Movement Research Spring Festival Hardcorps.
