Critical Correspondence
Dance and the Museum: Helene Lesterlin Responds
Agnes Martin’s brand of minimalism isn’t for everyone, but I am always star-struck when I come across one of her drawings or paintings. Like a gust of chill, fresh air, with a view of some wide, empty expanse, her work gives me a settled, alert feeling. The shimmering surface has an authority, a presence, […]
Photo by Katie KischerDance and the Museum: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Responds
1) What are the most potent questions/ ideas prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? I hear artists asking questions about how their work can read as cinematic, how various kinds of relational experiences can co-exist between genres, what is the relationship between identity and abstraction and form, among many […]
Dance and the Museum: Yvonne Rainer Responds
1) What are the most potent questions/ ideas prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Ethics and economics, to begin with. When my work is performed in a dance venue by another dance company, I am paid royalties. Why do the art museums not conform to this standard? They pay […]
Dance and the Museum: More than Incidental Choreographies by Danielle Goldman
On September 28, 2013, Danspace Project hosted its latest Conversations Without Walls, a series of panel discussions co-curated by Danspace Scholar-in-Residence Jenn Joy and Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor. This particular conversation provided an opportunity to reflect on Ralph Lemon’s Some sweet day–a recent three-week performance series at MoMA–as well as the broader convergences between dance […]
Dance and the Museum: Alexis Clements Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Dance and the visual arts, of course, have a relationship that has goes back much farther than the past decade or so. Early examples come up throughout RoseLee Golderg’s volume Performance Art, for instance—from Italian Futurist […]
Performa 09: William Kentridge at Cedar Lake
by Karinne Keithley As this blogging group was forming, we corresponded about what a Movement Research-based writing group looking at Performa might do. One of the many ideas which came up, beyond the initial sense that we weren’t going to review, per se, and neither were we going to get oppositional about dance world and […]
