Critical Correspondence
From MR’s Archives: Steve Paxton and Bill T. Jones in Conversation with Mary Overlie
Following an evening presenting solo work for a Movement Research Studies project, Steve Paxton and Bill T. Jones engage in a post-performance dialogue led and moderated by Mary Overlie. At this moment in time, December 4, 1983, both men have successful careers, engaging in differing ends of the spectrum referred to (somewhat ambivalently) as postmodern […]
Elsewhere: Randy Martin on Performing the Changing City
“But surely moving through disequilibrium and divining ways through spaces made for infinite possibility are what dance does best.” – Randy Martin, A Precarious Dance, a Derivative Sociality The dance community suffered a significant loss with the passing of Randy Martin on January 28, 2015. Randy was a brilliant thinker, a passionate dancer and […]
Chris Aiken in conversation with Kinebago’s Sara Smith
Critical Correspondence is pleased to share with you an excerpt of a conversation from Kinebago, a magazine created to foster the documentation and contemplation of dance and movement-based practices in New England. Here, improvisor/dance maker/teacher Chris Aiken talks with Kinebago founder Sara Smith about the ways in which what he calls an “ecological practice” transforms his perceptual, aesthetic and relational capacities as a performer.
Feeling Space
by Clarinda Mac Low Last Sunday I was eating Thai food with my friend James when, suddenly, I lost my sense of spatial perception. Everything in front of me looked flat and stubbornly two-dimensional, yet animated and very colorful, like a picture on a video or computer monitor. I grasped my plate, I felt the […]
