Critical Correspondence
MR Festival 2008: RoseAnne Spradlin in conversation with Jean Butler
Listen to this interview This series presents brief conversations with the current Winter MELT comp teachers: Susan Rethorst, Jennifer Monson and RoseAnne Spradlin. As active makers and seasoned teachers of composition, these artists are invited to articulate their current approach to making and teaching, their observations and the problems and questions that are leading their […]
MR Festival 2008: Jennifer Monson in conversation with Jean Butler
Listen to this interview This series presents brief conversations with the current Winter MELT comp teachers: Susan Rethorst, Jennifer Monson and RoseAnne Spradlin. As active makers and seasoned teachers of composition, these artists are invited to articulate their current approach to making and teaching, their observations and the problems and questions that are leading their […]
MR Festival 2008: Susan Rethorst in conversation with Jean Butler
Listen to this interview This series presents brief conversations with the current Winter MELT comp teachers: Susan Rethorst, Jennifer Monson and RoseAnne Spradlin. As active makers and seasoned teachers of composition, these artists are invited to articulate their current approach to making and teaching, their observations and the problems and questions that are leading their […]
MR Festival 2008: Vera Mantero in conversation with Chase Granoff
Listen to this interview From Sidewinder – Movement Research’s most recent Fall Festival: a conversation between choreographers Vera Mantero, from Portugal, and Chase Granoff, based in New York.
MR Festival 2008: Ray Chung in conversation with John Jasperse
Listen to this interview Here’s another verbal exchange from Sidewinder, this time between Bay Area-based Ray Chung and New York City-based John Jasperse. Sidewinder was the name of Movement Research’s most recent Fall Festival, curated with the assistance of Jennifer Monson and Zeena Parkins. During it, some in-town artists sat with the out-of-town artists to talk […]
Daria Fain and Robert Kocik in conversation with Thom Donovan and Alejandra Martorell
The Extent to Which and the Prosodic Body Download this conversation as PDF Alejandra Martorell: Thom, do you want to introduce yourself very briefly so we know who you are? Thom Donovan: Let’s see, I’m a teacher and writer. I live in New York City. And I’ve known Daria and Robert for a few years – […]
John Jasperse in conversation with Sarah Maxfield
Download this interview as a PDF The Center for Performance Research (CPR) is 4000 square foot arts facility in Greenpoint Brooklyn, co-founded by Jonah Bokaer/Chez Bushwick, Inc. and John Jasperse/Thin Man Dance, Inc. CPR strives to address the critical need for space designated towards artist research and development in contemporary dance, performance and related forms. […]
Kevin Schlottmann in conversation with Douglas Johnson
As Evening Approaches Thumbnail photo: Courtesy of Douglas Johnson On Friday October 31st, director choreographer Lisa Niedermeyer’s As Evening Approaches will have its New York premiere at Dance Theatre Workshop as part of the DanceNOW [NYC] Festival. The piece is performed by Lisa Niedermeyer and Reba Mehan, set to a saxophone quartet, four traveling musicians […]
Milka Djordjevich, Nohemí Montzerrat Contreras, Sarah Beth Percival, Will Rawls, and Otto Ramstad in conversation with Alejandra Martorell
DanceWeb 2008 Download this interview as PDF Note: Kyli Kleven was a 6th US-based participant in this year’s DanceWEB scholarship program. As this interview came about in an impromptu manner, we were unable to find her on time to sit and talk with us. We regret her absence. (Perhaps for the reunion conversation?) Alejandra Martorell: […]
In Conversation with choreograph.net: First Response
hi levi, many thanks for your email. i had frankly given up on you guys, so this a really pleasant surprise. i had one bright idea while taking with chase: we are currently developing this site re content, audience, format, presentation. it seems you are doing the same. how about an editorial meta-logue about between […]
In Conversation with choreograph.net: An Invitation
Hi Jeffrey We received your contact information from Chase Granoff, who told us of your interest in some kind of collaboration with the website administered through Movement Research in NYC – Critical Correspondence. Alejandra Martorell and I are currently the two editors of the site, and we would be very interested in some form of […]
In Conversation with choreograph.net: metalogue first movement, from Jeff Gormly
Here is where I’m going to pick up our conversation, from Alejandra’s email: **more on the conceptual side, and possibly related to the previous topic, I’m impressed by Daghdha’s capacity to state views of what dance is or can be. It makes me think and feel my own inability, but also perhaps from an institutional […]
In Conversation with choreograph.net: A Point of Departure
Dear Jeff, Levi and Chase, i’m excited about building a dialogue between organizations, publications and people at last. thank you! i’ve included Chase in this email in case you have thoughts on other possible topics and directions. briefly looking at Daghdha’s site and choregraph.net, i see more concretely that there is really a lot of […]
In conversation with choreograph.net: Introduction
In April 2008, CC co-editor Levi Gonzalez contacted choreograph.net editor Jeffrey Gormly to establish a collaborative project between the two publications and their mother organizations – Movement Research for CC and Daghdha for choreograph.net. This is a raw thinking space for the organizations and their communities to sort through ideas of what we believe we […]
