A story about the growing practice of Indigenous land acknowledgment at New York City dance spaces, a movement catalyzed by Emily Johnson. (The New York Times)
Woman of Action →
For Magazin im August, the magazine of Berlin's Tanz im August festival, an interview with "action architect" Elizabeth Streb.
Dancing in Life and on 'Pose' →
Three stars of the FX show — Ryan Jamaal Swain, Dominique Jackson, and Jason A. Rodriguez — talk about dancing on- and offscreen. (The New York Times)
Ashley Bouder, Feminist Ballerina →
A profile of the New York City Ballet principal, whose own company, the Ashley Bouder Project, provides a creative platform for women and other underrepresented voices in ballet. (The New York Times)
No Clear Path →
A short profile of freelance dancer extraordinaire Maggie Cloud. (Dance Magazine)
La MaMa Moves! Remains a Freewheeling Home for Dance →
A review of works by Angie Pittman, Adham Hafez, Lucie Grégoire, and more at the 13th La Mama Moves! Dance Festival. (The New York Times)
All Together Now →
For Artforum, a review of Milka Djordjevich's ANTHEM.
Teenage Daydreams & Black Sheep Ballerinas →
An interview with Clare Barron about her play Dance Nation. (The New York Times)
From the Archives
Going through some old files I found this review I wrote of Jack Walsh's 2015 documentary on Yvonne Rainer. For some reason I now can't recall, the review was never published. I've been thinking a lot about YR lately (am I ever not thinking about YR?), especially about her excellence as a writer and chronicler of her own history. I also think a lot about how she left and came back (to dance). Anyway, I felt like I should release this from my "Old Desktop" folder and into the world, mostly for the stellar quotes from YR and Steve Paxton.
November 2015
How has this not been done before? For the dance history enthusiast, that question arises just at the mention of Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer, a discerning and necessary new documentary about the revolutionary choreographer, performer, filmmaker and writer who helped to usher American dance from modern to postmodern in the 1960s — and who, at 81, is still performing and making work today.
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A review of Douglas Dunn's "Tandem," presented at the SoHo loft where he's worked and lived since 1982. (The New York Times)
On Gesel Mason's "No Boundaries" →
A review of the final (live) performance of No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers. (The New York Times)
Dancing Their Friends and Heroes (and My Little Pony) →
A review of Jack Ferver's Everything Is Imaginable at New York Live Arts. (The New York Times)