Critical Correspondence
Janine Antoni in conversation with Abigail Levine
Artist Janine Antoni speaks of her recent engagement with dance and with choreographers, including Annie B, Parson, Jill Sigman, Stephen Petronio and Anna Halprin. Antoni describes herself as new to dance, although her artistic practice has always centered on the body. Movement improvisation, she says, acts as an accelerator of her artistic process; when she […]
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 […]
Dr. Sally R. Sommer in Conversation with Abigail Levine
Sally Sommer has a unique eye on the history of post-modern dance. Arriving in New York in 1967, she fell immediately into the post-Judson scene, writing criticism and reviews for the Village Voice through the 70s and 80s. With a doctorate from NYU’s Performance Studies Department just as the discipline was forming, she went on […]
Of Note Elsewhere: Yve Laris Cohen in Mousse Magazine
Yve Laris Cohen’s recent work takes the literal materials of traditional dance and visual art spaces–the specialized floors, the distinctly colored walls–and uses them as both the stuff and subject of his visual and performance work. Some of these displacements arose from necessity–the installation of a sprung surface to accommodate jumping on the concrete floor […]
Richard Move in conversation with Abigail Levine
In 1996, five years after Martha Graham’s death, Richard Move began summoning her to the stage, using his own body as the medium for her performance. Move refers to the dances he performs as Graham’s works, although he has always engaged in a process of “de-reconstruction” of the choreography, making them his own creations as […]
Responses: Tere O’Connor’s Baby
by Abigail Levine I usually go about creating performance material with the aim of making an audience think, but I have come to realize that, as an audience member, I am most affected by dance that makes me feel something first. In these best instances, I have a feeling that I can’t quite identify or […]
