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 […]
Carla Peterson in conversation with AUNTS and CATCH
Following a two-day event in February in which the performance series’ AUNTS and CATCH took turns trading curatorial and production practices, Carla Peterson, Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, interviewed CATCH curators Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons and Jeff Larson, and AUNTS organizers Laurie Berg and Liliana Dirks-Goodman about the experience and what it revealed […]
MR Festival 2008: Distractions at Dusk: Populous by AUNTS by Lana Wilson
by Lana Wilson MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There On Sunday night, well over a hundred people gathered on a rooftop in Bushwick to witness the new performance/party/installation by freewheeling curatorial project AUNTS. The concept underlying the latest iteration of AUNTS was nine simultaneous performances spread across a roof, with the audience wandering, drinking, […]
MR Festival 2008: Populous by AUNTS by Jenn Joy
by Jenn Joy MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Sunday, 1 June 2008, 8pm A pink streamer floats down onto Thames Street as we leave Officeops. An elegant floating trace of the transient encounters with dance witnessed along the horizon lines of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The transposition of bodies against distant skyscrapers and closer […]
Artists/Curators Series: Jamm in conversation with Levi Gonzalez
AUNTS Download this interview as PDF Levi Gonzalez: So, let’s start simple—like a little bit of the history of AUNTS Bash—how did it start, where did the idea come from, and what is it? Jamm Leary: AUNTS started because Rebecca Brooks and I wanted to see more dance, and we wanted to curate shows, and […]
