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Dear Readers,

I’ve been thinking about the role of iconoclasm in dance and its inevitable relationship to reverence. Perhaps an iconoclast is inherently hypocritical — got yo celebrate something is also to destroy it and to destroy something is also to celebrate it.

Under what conditions do the immaterial circumstances of a dance become absent from the material manifestation of it?

The various articles in this issue touch upon the material and immaterial conditions informing the production and reception of dance and performance. How are we citizens inside and outside of the theater? Why and you do we show ourselves and others on stage? Who has the agency to represent oneself and who possesses the agency to represent others? How does time change how we see what we see, onstage or otherwise?

Another instance to consider iconoclasm is the portfolio on Jennifer Miller. Miller reminds me of the importance of play, accident, politics and persistence — a very different relationship to reverence.

Thank you to all the artists, writers, photographers, and editors who contributed to this issue. Buck, Rebecca, Elena, Conor and David — thank you — this could not exist without you.

Yours,

Moriah

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Contents

  • 2 EDITORS' LETTERS MORIAH EVANS, EFFIE BOWEN
  • 3 CARLA PETERSON TO LEAVE NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
  • 4 STUDIOS WORKED HERE LISE BRENNER, ANJA HITZENBERGER
  • 7 DATEBOOK: ANNIE DORSEN
  • 10 PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: THE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT AND ARCHIVE AT THE JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION SUSAN KRAFT
  • 12 MAPPING A NON-LINEAR LINEAGE SARAH MAXFIELD
  • 13 ORAL HISTORY AND DANCE: A PRIMER SUZANNE SNIDER
  • 14 STILL DANCE: PEGGY JARRELL KAPLAN'S PORTRAITS ELENA LIGHT
  • 15 PROJECT PAGE: THE WITTY THAT NEVA SLEEPS LARISSA VELEZ-JACKSON
  • 16 COLLECTIVE ACTION: SASA ASENTIC & ANA VUJANOVIC'S "ON TRIAL TOGETHER" EMILY HOFFMAN
  • 19 DILDO, ANUS, ETC. DARIA FAIN WITH CECILIA BENGOLEA & FRANCOIS CHAIGNAUD
  • 20 FOCUS ON THE WORK: MARIA HASSABI MORIAH EVANS
  • 24 FROM HERE: NOTES ON DANCING IN DETROIT BIBA BELL
  • 24 MARISS PEREL AT VOX POPULI LIZZIE FEIDELSON
  • 25 WITNESSING/VANISHING: MIGUEL GUTIERREZ'S "MYENDLESSLOVE" MICHAEL DIPETRO
  • 26 CENTERFOLD: ANTONIO RAMOS PHOTO: MIANA JUN
  • 29 COVER ARTIST PORTFOLIO: JENNIFER MILLER PHOTO: MARY ELLEN MARK
  • 30 INTERVIEW: JENNIFER MILLER EZRA BERKLEY NEPON
  • 35 CIRCUS AMOK: "THE MOST UNTIRING AND GAYEST" IRA LIVINGSTON
  • 36 JENNIFER MILLER'S "ZENOBIA" RACHEL MATTSON
  • 38 FROM FLOURISH TO FLIP: DANCING WITH MILLER IN "AMOK" AND BEYOND JENNIFER MONSON
  • 38 ENTERTAINMENT: GOING FOR THE JUGGLER (REPRINT FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE, 1998) JOHN BOWE
  • 39 SLIDESHOW U.S.A.: BEARDED LADY & REVOLUTIONARY RACHEL ADAMS
  • 41 JENNIFER MILLER OEUVRE
  • 43 IT'S A LOT OF WORK TO DANCE OR SOMETIMES TO NOT DANCE: JEROME BEL AND THEATER HORA'S "DISABLED THEATER" CARLA PETERSON WITH JEROME BEL, SIMONE TROUNG, LORRIANE MEIER, DAMIEN BRIGHT, GIANNI BLUMER
  • 46 EXIT INTERVIEW: TROY LAMBERT PERFORMANCE JOURNAL
  • 48 FEATURED ARTIST PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

Editorial team

Moriah Evans
Editor-in-Chief
Buck Wanner
Senior Editor
Rebecca Wender
Managing Editor
David Knowles
Graphic Designer
Conor Creaney
Copy Editor
Effie Bowen
Cover Artist Portfolio Editor
Emily Hoffman, Matthew Lyons, Daria Faïn, Biba Bell, Lizzie Feidelson
Contributing Editors
Elena Light
MRPJ Intern
Trajal Harrell
Editorial Director
Catherine Galasso
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