Critical Correspondence
Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad in conversation with Justin Jones
Holdiay House #2 Listen to this interview Holiday House #1 interview by Justin Jones Thumbnail photo: Sean Smuda Justin Jones: Hi, this is Justin Jones sitting down with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad of the Body Cartography Project and we’re here talking about Holiday House #2, which is taking place in their home in Minneapolis. […]
Artists/Curators Series: Chase Granoff and Chris Peck in conversation with Levi Gonzalez
Live Sh– Thumbnail photo by Chris Peck Download this interview as PDF Levi: Okay! So I’m here interviewing Chris Peck and Chase Granoff, who are the organizers of “Live Shit”—that’s the name you prefer, right? Chase: No, we don’t really have a preference for the name. Levi: But you prefer “Live Shit” to “Live Sh—”? […]
Artists/Curators Series: Rebecca Brooks, Beth Gill, and Isabel Lewis in conversation with Levi Gonzalez
Movement Research Festival 2007 Download this interview as PDF Listen to this interview Levi Gonzalez: Four choreographers sitting in a room! [laughter] So, I’m sitting with Isabel Lewis, Rebecca Brooks, and Beth Gill—three of the four people involved in the curation/ production group for the Movement Research Festival 2007 [Erika Hand is the fourth]. First, […]
Levi Gonzalez in conversation with Heather Olson
Clusterfuck Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Tasha Roth Heather Olson: Okay, Levi… Levi Gonzalez: Yes. Heather: You just had a show, Clusterfuck. What ideas are you working on in it? Levi: It sort of had a long meandering process in terms of where it started from conceptually and where it ended up. I […]
Jennifer Allen in conversation with Jeff Larson
Open Thumbnail photo: Jennifer Allen Jeff Larson: Okay, here we go! So, to begin with, very broadly, what would you say you are working with in this process? Jennifer Allen: I started with this idea of the title, “Open,” which was the first thing that came to me a couple of years ago, and that’s […]
Trajal Harrell in conversation with Allison Farrow
Showpony Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: David Bergé Allison Farrow: Start with ‘it’s such a beautiful community of people.’ [Laughs] Trajal Harrell: It’s such a beautiful community of people! Well, you know, part of the reason why I did Showpony is that, since I’ve been in New York, I have been profoundly amazed […]
Molissa Fenley in conversation with Tere O’Connor
Patterns and Expectations and Four Lines Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo by Paula Court, ©2005 Tere O’Connor: Okay, I’m sitting here with Molissa Fenley, and I want to interview you on this occasion because you say you are doing your work—can you say where you are doing your work at? Molissa Fenley: At the […]
Luciana Achugar in conversation with Beth Gill
Exhausting Love at Danspace Project Thumbnail photo by Natalia Gomensoro Beth Gill: That was interesting that you said you’re more excited about this piece than about your last piece A Super Natural Return to Love. Luciana Achugar: Yeah, I’m excited about the relationship between the ideas that I had for this piece and what […]
Christalyn Wright and Mariangela Lopez in conversation with Clarinda Mac Low
In the Landscape of Rolling Heels and Struggles with Words, Attitudes and Great Expectations Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Courtesy of Christalyn Wright and Mariangela Lopez Clarinda Mac Low: I notice that you both have these complex titles that seem to seek to establish a world-view right away. Christalyn’s is The Struggle with […]
Carolyn Hall in conversation with Sarah Maxfield
Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Elazar C. Harel Sarah Maxfield: Hi Carolyn Hall! Carolyn Hall: Hi Sarah Maxfield! Sarah: Okay. So, we’ll get started. You are often an originating performer in choreographic work. How would you describe that role—and does it vary from project to project? Carolyn: Hmm. Over the years it has […]
Boris Charmatz in conversation with Chase Granoff
À Bras le Corps Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Courtesy of Boris Charmatz Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chablas will perform À Bras le Corps at Danspace Project on October 26-28th, 8.30 pm Chase Granoff: The work that you are bringing, À Bras le Corps, I understand this is one of the first choreographies that you ever made. […]
RoseAnne Spradlin in conversation with Alejandra Martorell
Survive Cycle Thumbnail photo by Valerie B. Barnes Alejandra Martorell: I thought I would just invite you to talk about whatever aspect of the work you want to talk about: whether it’s conceptual, or process-oriented, or personal, or wherever you are at right now. RoseAnne Spradlin: Well, let’s see. What were some of those words […]
Alma Esperanza-Cunningham and Mary Armentrout in conversation with Faye Driscoll
in advance of Seen: SAN FRANCISCO, a Movement Research Studies Project curated by Trajal Harrell and Mary Armentrout Download this interview as PDF Alma Esperanza-Cunningham: Are you from the Bay Area? Faye Driscoll: I am originally from Los Angeles, actually. I lived in New York for about nine years, and then I went back to […]
Peter Petralia in conversation with Paul Benney
Invisible Messages Listen to this interview Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo by Alison Grippo and Proto-type Theater © 2006 Paul Benney: I thought a good place to start today would be to talk about where you started as an artist and the different experiences you had leading up to where you are now as […]
Sarah Michelson in conversation with Tere O’Connor
Dogs Download this interview as PDF Photo by Eric McNatt, Digital Production by Elizabeth McAlevey Tere O’Connor: I’m so happy to talk to you Sarah. I didn’t plan this too much because I like to just be able to talk openly. One thing I would like to do is find some kind of—not clarity necessarily—but a […]
