Critical Correspondence
Xavier Le Roy in Conversation with Will Rawls
Over the last twenty years, Xavier Le Roy has radically expanded the field of contemporary choreography, through solo and collective research-based practice. His diverse works question the limits of performance, exposing the conditions that govern artistic production in the theater. Increasingly, Le Roy has turned towards issues of addressing and engaging the public, and how […]
Chris Sharp in Conversation with Biba Bell
This autumn, dance and performance provided an essential means by which curators Chris Sharp (Mexico City) and Gianni Jetzer (New York) could reimagine public sculpture and the potentiality of urban space for Le Mouvement, the latest installment of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition (founded in 1954). An expansive, threefold exhibition, Le Mouvement invited numerous works and […]
Mark Franko Responds: homeless in the museum, or, how to be a school
Original post on OpEdgy Arts & Performance (Jampole Communications) French choreographer Boris Charmatz is presenting three different programs this fall at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City under the umbrella title: Three Collective Gestures(October 18-November 3). In many ways, he is taking on the whole contemporary issue of the relation of dance to the […]
Photo by Guy L'HeureuxDance and the Museum: Sara Wookey Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? How does the socio-spatial context of the museum support the needs of dance? What can dance offer the visual arts? Where is the voice of the dancer? How might this “coming together” facilitate a shift in the dynamics […]
