Critical Correspondence
Steven Reker in conversation with Aaron Mattocks
Steven Reker is a Brooklyn-based musician, choreographer and performer, and the primary songwriter and director of People Get Ready. “Specific Ocean,” a multi-sensory performance mix tape, will be given its world premiere at New York Live Arts, October 18-20, 2012. Steven spoke with Aaron Mattocks, CC Co-editor and a performer in the work, about the path of his career, his use of mix tape as choreographic structure, and the nature of pleasure in art making.
Utopian synesthesia: DD Dorvillier in conversation with Jennifer Lacey on Danza Permanente
Jennifer Lacey and DD Dorvillier discuss joyful work, physical memory, eurhythmy, and DD's process of making human future dance corps' Danza Permanente, opening on September 15 at The Kitchen, co-presented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)'s Crossing the Line 2012.
MR Festival 2008: music and dance by Gelsey Bell
by Gelsey Bell MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Tuesday, June 3rd was, for me, an extended meditation on the
relationship between music and dance. In Nancy Garcia’s workshop I’m wondering who could be singing this
song… the participants were given a momentary peak into Garcia’s
process of creating pieces. We experimented with two scores of Pauline
Oliveros […]
MR Festival 2008: Dance for Music by Matthew Lyons
by Matthew Lyons MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There As someone who programs both dance and music and produces many interdisciplinary events, I was very interested to see the results of this evening’s program. Talking with the evening’s curator Chris Peck, I learned that he selected the musicians and then asked them to choose […]
MR Festival 2008: Dance for Music: Five Leading Run-on Questions About Music for Dance
by Chris Peck MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There I’ve been attending contemporary dance performances and collaborating with choreographers as a composer for nearly ten years now, and I have many questions about music for dance. One big one that usually isn’t spoken aloud until the second or third beer after the show is […]
