Critical Correspondence
SALTA: A self-interview on curation
Pseudo-, anti-, and total dance In the Spring of 2015, the Oakland-based dance collective SALTA co-wrote this self-interview about our monthly performance series, which appears below as an excerpt. We took the structure of the self-interview from Everybody’s Toolbox, a contemporary dance platform that offers structures, games, and scores for choreographers. We asked questions […]
Lise Soskolne of W.A.G.E. in Conversation with Abigail Levine
This past winter I met with Lise Soskolne, core organizer for W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy). W.A.G.E. is “a New York-based activist organization focused on regulating the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions, and establishing a sustainable labor relation between artists and the institutions that subcontract their labor.” I got […]
Maya Stovall in Conversation with Biba Bell
A “radical ballerina,” PhD candidate in anthropology at Wayne State University, and fourth generation Detroiter, Maya Stovall re-imagines the politics and aesthetics of dance through the question of where it might land on/as site of the liquor store. Liquor Store Theater negotiates the right to the city while inserting discussions of race, privilege, […]
Studies Project Notes: Dance and Publish Salon
On March 3rd, 2015, The Movement Research Performance Journal and Critical Correspondence hosted a public salon, inviting interested parties to break into groups and discuss how to optimize the Circulation, Design and Content. Below we share with you some of the notes and thought that came up. Our goal at CC, is to continue to […]
homeLA founder Rebecca Bruno in Conversation with Biba Bell
Rebecca Bruno grew up within a home where her father presented chamber jazz concerts, so that in turn, after encountering a perceived limitation of resources for showing work in Los Angeles, she took matters into her own hands and momentarily converted her home into a space to make and present performance. From its […]
Elsewhere: Heather Kravas & Milka Djordjevich on MASS
Engaging the often muted voice of the dancer, Milka Djordjevich embarks on an experimental process with collaborator, composer Chris Peck, which invites herself and a trio of dancers, including Kyli Kleven and Jessica Cook, to integrate vocalization, song, and harmony within a tightly woven fabric of choreographic gesture and movement. Djordjevich discusses the visible difficulty […]
Diane Madden in Conversation with Meg Weeks
Since Trisha Brown’s retirement in 2013, Associate Artistic Directors Diane Madden and Carolyn Lucas have taken over the leadership of the preeminent dance company that Brown founded in 1970 as an offshoot of Judson Dance Theater. Both longtime Company dancers themselves, Madden and Lucas act as stewards of Brown’s sizable body of work and […]
Robert Swinston in Conversation with Kimberly Bartosik
My desire to interview Robert Swinston-31 year veteran of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and current Artistic Director of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers, France-arose, in part, as a response to the uninformed attacks against his appointment, but mostly as a way to reflect on how the notion of legacy is […]
Flavia Meireles in Conversation with Abigail Levine
Flavia Meireles created Temas de Dança (Themes in Dance) because of an itch she could no longer ignore. Teaching a university-level course in dance history, she came to feel that dance history was a contradiction in terms. How could the traditional historical archive be expanded to include the temporal and experiential foundations of dance? Her […]
Cathy Weis in Conversation with Biba Bell
WeisAcres, located in a historic Soho co-op at 537 Broadway and home to a stable of seminal choreographers and visual artists for the past four decades, has recently re-emerged as a space for performance and communion with Cathy Weis’ Sundays on Broadway series. I recently sat down with Cathy to discuss the trials and tribulations […]
Molissa Fenley in Conversation with Richard Move
Interview date: November 24, 2014 Molissa Fenley, whose choreography has been an important element in the fabric of New York City dance since she formed her company, Molissa Fenley and Company, in 1977, sits down with Richard Move to discuss her oeuvre. A vast body of work that extends across multiple decades and geographies, […]
The Herko Dialogues: Kyle Bukhari and Yve Laris Cohen in Conversation
On October 27, 1964, Fred Herko, dancer, choreographer and founding member of Judson Dance Theater, leapt to his death from a fourth story window in the West Village, while listening to Mozart’s Requiem. Or perhaps it was another piece of music. And maybe it wasn’t the fourth floor. Beyond the fact of his suicide, and […]
The Herko Dialogues: Fred by Claudia and Jillian
On October 27, 1964, Fred Herko, dancer, choreographer and founding member of Judson Dance Theater, leapt to his death from a fourth story window in the West Village, while listening to Mozart’s Requiem. Or perhaps it was another piece of music. And maybe it wasn’t the fourth floor. Beyond the fact of his suicide, and […]
The Herko Dialogues: Adrienne Edwards and Jen Rosenblit in Conversation
On October 27, 1964, Fred Herko, dancer, choreographer and founding member of Judson Dance Theater, leapt to his death from a fourth story window in the West Village, while listening to Mozart’s Requiem. Or perhaps it was another piece of music. And maybe it wasn’t the fourth floor. Beyond the fact of his suicide, and […]
The Herko Dialogues: Tavia Nyong’o and Raja Kelly in Conversation
On October 27, 1964, Fred Herko, dancer, choreographer and founding member of Judson Dance Theater, leapt to his death from a fourth story window in the West Village, while listening to Mozart’s Requiem. Or perhaps it was another piece of music. And maybe it wasn’t the fourth floor. Beyond the fact of his suicide, and […]
