Issue #36
Winter 2010
Editorial team
Cover Artist
Hahn Rowe
Editor-In-Chief
Trajal Harrell
Tim Murray - Troy Lambert - Jon Mianci - Sarah Holcman
Managing Editor
Moriah Evans
Copy Editor
Clarinda Mac Low
Intern
Freddy Mancilla
Contributing Editor
Eleanor Marie Bauer - Dana Salisbury - Cristiane Bouger - Matthew Lyons
Articles
Past Future Now: Renata Celichowska and 75 Years of Dance at the 92nd Street Y
Three years into Renata Celichowska’s tenure as Director of the Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y (2004-present), it dawned on the team that a milestone of a birthday...
Stolen Articles: Kalup Linzy
This June, in addition to participating in the second Athens Biennale, video and performance artist Kalup Linzy released his second album, Sampled and LeftOva. He teamed up with fashion duo...
Education: World Performance Project At Yale
It’s an early Sunday morning in mid October at Yale University. The World Performance Project is hosting a small but international group of artist scholars and curators for a day...
Angers: School’s Not So Uncool, But Also Not So Cool
On the week of June 22nd, 2009, CNDC, the Centre National de Dance Contemporaine in Angers, France, hosted ”more than 100 student artists from different training programmes in contemporary dance."...
ClassClassClass
CLASSCLASSCLASS was founded in the Fall of 2008 to support a new generation of teachers and students of dance. The first round of classes and workshops were held February -...
Datebook: Big Art Group
In 1997 we first met and made our first very small performance together. Jemma was in a band. When I first moved to New York, I interned for two years...
5 Questions by Daria Fain for Sally Silvers
For you, what mediates between what is heard and seen? Quit screaming while visible gravity is externalizing my nervous system! How does heroism inspire you? Heroes can inspire & suffocate....
Interview: Hahn Rowe
I heard somebody and thought, “Wow, he is just really squeezing and stretching sounds out of this instrument.” It was this fascination with this kind of malleability and plasticity of...
Undefined Space in Auf Den Tisch
Beth: Maybe I should describe the space. The performance took place in one of the studios at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. A large square table, maybe 15 or 20 feet...
5 Questions by Daria Fain for Hahn Rowe
5 Questions by Daria Faïn for Hahn Rowe Where were you born? The city of Salisbury, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Your music has a very influential dramaturgic effect...
Dancing With Sound
For about two decades now, Hahn Rowe has been a close collaborator of choreographer Meg Stuart and her company Damaged Goods, creating the scores or live music for several improvisations,...
Reprint: Carving A Path of Innovations
Mimi Goese lives in one of those old New York City apartments whose rooms are so tiny that they feel like a complex of cages. Yet Ms. Goese, a 38-year-old...
Merce Cunningham Memorial Portfolio Interviews: Mary Lisa Burns
A definite shift has transpired in the landscape of New York dance history upon Merce’s passing. Beyond the execution of The Cunningham Dance Foundation’s Legacy Plan to close down the...
Merce Cunningham Memorial Portfolio Interviews: Banu Ogan
Banu Ogan: My name is Banu Ogan. I danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1993 -2000, and I was a member of the Repertory Understudy group for a...
Merce Cunningham Memorial Portfolio Interviews: Patricia Lent
Hello. My name is Patricia Lent, and I danced with MCDC from 1984 -1993. A few years after I joined the company, I started teaching at the studio, and after...
Merce Cunningham Memorial Portfolio Interviews: Robert Swinston
My name is Robert Swinston. I am a dancer with MCDC. I joined the company in 1980 and this is... I completed 29 years here. Since 1992, I have been...
It’s Not Meant to be a Patricular Kind of Bird: Kimberly Bartosik Interviews Three Post-Merce Artists
Kimberly: For Merce’s recent memorial, MCDC alumni were given the opportunity to perform a work of our choice. From my perspective, finding a way back into his work, after many...
Focus on the Work: Julie Tolentino
The following conversation took place as a written chat on Skype. We have preserved the immediacy of the writing and the individual specific styles of typed writing. JULIE TOLENTINO: it...
In-Depth: William Forsythe Decreation: Post Show Talk at BAM
JB: Welcome home. WF: Thank you, thank you. It’s nice to be here. JB: So, now should we talk about our feelings? [everyone laughs] WF: You are a very merry...
Excerpts From the Recently Released “Bad Reputation”
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEATRE OF PENNY ARCADE Ken Bernard Welcome, audience and readers, to the Penny Arcade. Lots of fun. And cheap. But watch out. Las cucarachas entran pero...
Sarah Michaelson’s “Dover Beach:” Translating Dance Concepts in the Process of Mastering a Form
Extravagance and idealism were qualities cherished by those who embraced Romanticism. The movement that took place in Western Europe in the middle of the 18th century influenced many countries in...