Critical Correspondence
University Project
The University Project is an initiative of Critical Correspondence that aims to shed light on the shifting relationship between academia and working artists. More and more Universities are interested in bringing working artists on to their faculty, and many Universities now offer low-residency MFA programs to assist working artists in obtaining higher degrees. What are […]
The POSTDANCE Dialogues: Keynote Address by Jonathan Burrows
Jonathan Burrows’s Keynote Address for the Postdance Conference in Stockholm, Sweden Curated by André Lepecki for MDT and Cullberg Ballet, Stockholm, October 14th 2015 Download a PDF of Burrows’s Keynote Address ____________________________________________________________________________ Good morning and welcome. André Lepecki suggested to me that this Postdance Conference was an opportunity to find […]
Biba Bell discusses dance as a promiscuous mode of dwelling
CC co-editor Biba Bell shares an interlude-esque essay that expresses her ongoing project that thinks through the potential of dance to promiscuously move about, mobilize societal limitations, resist capture, and generally infiltrate disciplinary and institutional habits, aka business as usual… crashing the party; escaping the house. Woven throughout her perpetual proposition – “Would you […]
Richard Move in conversation with Abigail Levine
In 1996, five years after Martha Graham’s death, Richard Move began summoning her to the stage, using his own body as the medium for her performance. Move refers to the dances he performs as Graham’s works, although he has always engaged in a process of “de-reconstruction” of the choreography, making them his own creations as […]
Marcus Schulkind in conversation with Lizzie Feidelson
Marcus Schulkind is a beloved teacher, choreographer, and veteran of New York and Boston dance worlds: a former dancer with Lar Lubovitch and the Batsheva Dance Company, he now co-owns Cambridge’s Green Street Studios, a hub of the Boston dance community. Schulkind spoke with Critical Correspondence member Lizzie Feidelson about Boston’s 1990s dance boom, how acupuncture has changed his teaching practice, and Boston’s “schizophrenic” attitude towards the body.
Stephanie Skura in conversation with Lana Wilson, Part One
Filmmaker and Performa curator Lana Wilson talks with Stephanie Skura, a Seattle-based choreographer whose new work “Two Huts” is being shown this weekend (through March 18, 2012) at Roulette. This engagement marks her first return to New York in 20 years, which Critical Correspondence is celebrating through this two-part interview series. In Part One, Skura and Wilson discuss Skura’s influences as a choreographer, including early exposure to body-mind technique, a well-timed call from Pearl Lang, and collaborations in the early 80s with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier.
