Critical Correspondence
Cunningham and Legacy: Addys Gonzalez, Jen Rosenblit and Niall Jones in conversation
Dancer Addys Gonzalez invited choreographers Jen Rosenblit and Niall Noel Jones to his small apartment in Prospect Lefferts Garden. He wanted to have them over for dinner, an endless loop of a conversation about mostly anything but focusing back and forth on Merce Cunningham and Legacy. An interview with the artists in the field now, that have yet to imagine a future and hardly have begun constructing a past. The dinner lasted seven hours, five bottles of Provence Rose, Armagnac and countless cigarettes. The light outside changed, the music kept constant, and the laughter escaped in and out of open windows.
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.
Taoufiq Izzediou in conversation with Katie Baer Schetlick
Katie Baer Schetlick interviews Moroccan choreographer Taoufiq Izzediou in Ramallah, Palestine during the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. This is the first in a series of interviews initiated by Schetlick documenting her experience at the festival. The conversation has been “re-choreographed” from a mixture of French, Arabic and English and a few moments of the untranslatable.
Tess Dworman and Mariana Valencia in conversation
Choreographers Tess Dworman and Mariana Valencia discuss LEGENDARY CHILDREN a shared evening of their work presented June 10 & 11, 2011 at BRAZIL.
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.
Yanira Castro in conversation with Peggy Cheng
Choreographer Yanira Castro speaks with Peggy Cheng, a dancer who has worked with Yanira since 2004 and been following her work since 1998. Peggy will perform in Yanira’s newest piece, Paradis, which premieres at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on June 2-4, 2011.
Gus Solomons, Jr. in conversation with Kyle Abraham
Choreographer Kyle Abraham speaks with choreographer Gus Solomons, Jr. about his dancing history and recent show at Danspace Project April 14-16, 2011.
Karen Bernard in conversation with Michael Helland
Curator and Choreographer Karen Bernard speaks with dancer and choreographer Michael Helland. Karen discusses the Performance Mix Festival, which takes place at Dixon Place April 26-May 1, 2011.
Iskra Sukarova and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavskovski in conversation with Ursula Eagly
This conversation is excerpted from a series of longer interviews that Ursula Eagly conducted with Macedonian choreographer Iskra Sukarova and curator/producer Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavskovski in 2010, when she traveled to Skopje on a grant from Dance Theater Workshop’s Suitcase Fund.
Biba Bell, Jmy Leary, and Piage Martin of Modern Garage Movement (aka MGM Grand) in conversation with Nicole Daunic
Biba Bell, Jmy Leary, and Piage Martin of MGM Grand talk with Nicole Danuic about their garage band touring model and the new work that they will premiere at The Kitchen April 20-22, 2011.
Zvonimir Dobrovic in conversation with Milka Djordjevich
Croatian curator Zvonimir Dobrovic speaks with New York choreographer and Critical Correspondence editor Milka Djordjevich. Zvonimir discusses the Perforations Festival New York, which takes place at La MaMa March 11-21.
Laurel Tentindo in conversation with Christine Elmo
When Christine Elmo saw Trisha Brown Dance Company perform Brown’s early works at the Whitney in September 2010, the performances provoked questions that Elmo wrote about in Critical Correspondence. Elmo now addresses these questions with dancer Laurel Tentindo, in the context of the company’s January 2010 performances at the Museum of Modern Art.
