Danspace Project

12/08/2024

Catch Alvin Ailey, Kyle Abraham, Caleb Teicher, multiple 'Nutcrackers' and more

12/06/2024

NEW YORK (PIX11) – A historic 225-year-old landmark church in the east village is struggling to feel its heat.   Programs for families and after-school activities are interrupted. &n…

12/06/2024

“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.” - Cynthia Hedstrom
“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠.” - Barbara Dilley

For our 50th anniversary, we invited 50+ artists who, in addition to their artistic work, have labored behind the scenes at Danspace, including serving on our Board of Directors, Artists Advisory Board, Admin & Tech Staff, or more recently as Research Fellows, to create a 50-second video with the prompt “The future is...” Find all of the films and written responses on our Online Journal: https://danspaceproject.org/2024/11/01/50-forward-the-future-is/

12/05/2024

A panel discussion to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Danspace Project.

12/04/2024

A co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT, 𝗝𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘀 has performed in the work of choreographers and artists including Ayano Elson, Alexa West, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd.

Her new dance, “Kingdom”, is a dense panorama of rapidly shifting images and sounds. Together with collaborators 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗹, 𝗢𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝘂𝗺, 𝗡𝗼𝗮 𝗥𝘂𝗶-𝗣𝗶𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝘀𝘀, 𝗜𝘀𝗮 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿, and 𝗭𝗼 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝘀 (performance) and 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 (sound), Manns conjures a vision of complicated entanglements of artificiality, power, and spirit within a 21st-century landscape.

🫂 Thursday, December 12 | 7:30PM
🫂 Friday, December 13 | 7:30PM
🫂 Saturday, December 14 | 7:30PM

📷: Photo by Carolyne Loreé Teston

12/04/2024

December 16: Wendy Perron will be on a panel about the early days of Danspace’s 50-year history, at the Library for the Performing Arts. They will show delicious footage of Steve Paxton & Nancy Stark Smith, Ralph Lemon, David Zambrano, Ishmael Houston-Jones & Fred Holland, Channel Z, Tin Quiz (1983), and more.

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-danspaces-50th-anniversary-tickets-993638197597

Dancer and dance writer Wendy Perron has a several performance and speaking engagements this December (starting Sunday, 12/1). Read more at our blog:
www.weslpress.org/catching-up-with-wendy-perron/

12/03/2024

Next week at Danspace Project! 🗣️

💬 Thursday, December 12 at 7:30PM
💬 Friday, December 13 at 7:30PM
💬 Saturday, December 14 at 7:30PM

𝗚𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮 is a Japanese-American artist utilizing in butoh, improvisation, found materials, and consumer products to create performances around the body as a historical site in post-Internment America. “I’m really interested in the delineation between notions of emptiness and nothingness, emphasizing materiality or material quality, and the non-self,” the artist explains.

A continuation of the in-process work he showed at DraftWork, “Immaterial Supreme” is a collaboration with dancer 𝗞𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗸𝗼 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗲 and musician 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝘀 that expounds on notions of the self, Buddhist concepts of emptiness, and the material. Using contact microphones and butoh, Potter-Takata juxtaposes synthetic materials with the natural or organic to create a sonic and visual landscape that pursues a dissolution of the permanent self.

📷: Photo by Rachel Keane

11/30/2024

💛🩵❤️ There are only 3 weeks left of Danspace Project’s Fall 2024 season! Stay tuned for more about our Spring 2025 50th Festival with special artists and projects to be announced soon.

💫 As a member, you can see any performance at Danspace Project for only $10! Solo memberships start at only $25 and also include discounts on publications and merchandise.

📷: Image by Miles Pflanz
🎨: Design by FAILSPACE

11/27/2024

Jade Manns and Glenn Potter-Takata present a shared evening of new works at Danspace Project from December 12–14. ❇️

Jade Manns works with images to explore themes of nature, divinity, and spectacle. Her new dance, “Kingdom”, is a dense panorama of rapidly shifting images and sounds. “Drawing from a two-dimensional archive which ranges from the prehistoric Chauvet cave paintings of animals to present day advertising and viral content, the choreography moves through a concentrated assemblage of animalistic forms punctuated by violent ruptures of modern spectacle.”

Together with collaborators Kalliope Piersol, Owen Prum, Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Isa Spector, and Zo Williams (performance) and Derek Baron (sound), Manns conjures a vision of complicated entanglements of artificiality, power, and spirit within a 21st-century landscape.

📷: Photos by Carolyne Loreé Teston

11/26/2024

11/25/2024

FREE to RSVP💥The next Draftwork is on Saturday, December 21 at 3PM! https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/draftwork-dec-fw24/

This afternoon features performances by two NYC-based artists: 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗶 and 𝗔𝗻𝗵 𝗩𝗼. Showings are followed by a reception, conversation, and Q&A between the artists.

📷: Photo of Symara Sarai by Elyse Mertz
📷: Photo of Anh Vo by Keshis Eugene

11/23/2024

❗️Last chance to see Ayano Elson + Wendell Gray II tonight at 7:30PM! Limited tickets available.

🔜 Coming up at Danspace Project: Jade Manns + Glenn Potter-Takata | December 12–14

📷: Photos by Ayano Elson

11/21/2024

OPENING TONIGHT! 🌀 Wendell Gray II’s 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵’𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 is comprised of a solo assisted by a duet, performed by Gray, Jamal K. White, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd. Gray looks to externally express interior streams of consciousness inside a Black experience.

“Time happens all at once where the past invades the present to make the future…At once I am many and I’m never alone,” he explains. “Using dance as a mode of processing, remembering, and dreaming, the work swims through a multitude of embodiments: some being manifestations of the imaginary and some being messages from the ancestors.”

Tickets + Info: https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/elson-gray-fw24/

📷: Photo by Rachel Keane

11/20/2024

🎫 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄! Stacy Matthew Spence’s “I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves” returns to Danspace Project for three performances from January 10–11, co-presented by Live Artery Festival 2025 (New York Live Arts). https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/ws2025-spence/

💛 Friday, January 10 at 7:30PM
💛 Saturday, January 11 at 4PM
💛 Saturday, January 11 at 7:30PM

Created in collaboration with dance artists Tim Bendernagel, Joanna Kotze, Hsiao-jou Tang, singer/musician Charlotte Jacobs, percussionist Raf Vertessen, and costumer Athena Kokoronis

📷: Photos by Elyssa Goodman

11/19/2024

“Ralph Lemon’s gorgeous and provocative exhibition 𝘊𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘪𝘳, currently on display at MoMA PS1, includes a not-to-be-missed four-channel video installation (see Holland Cotter’s NYT review) of Lemon’s undefinable ensemble piece 𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘛. In 2020, Okwui Okpokwasili and I co-curated a Platform at Danspace which opened just weeks before the pandemic shut down. We asked Ralph to do 𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘛. He said ‘yes’ with a few conditions. It became a one-night only collaboration between The Kitchen and Danspace Project. Ralph arranged for a multi-camera film shoot. The pandemic shut the world down two weeks later. The film of that performance is now at PS1 MoMA through March 24, 2025. Go see it.”

– Judy Hussie-Taylor

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/arts/design/ralph-lemon-artist-moma-ps1.html

11/18/2024

💖 Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday, November 2 for 50 Forward: “The Future Is...” Gathering! Thank you to the 50+ artists who made 50-second films to celebrate. See the films on Danspace’s Online Journal: https://danspaceproject.org/2024/11/01/50-forward-the-future-is/

Thank you to the following artists for their singular contributions: mayfield brooks, Silas Riener, Emily Wong, Angie Pittman, and DJs Ali Rosa-Salas and Nazuk Kochhar!

Stay tuned for more about our Spring 2025 50th Festival with special artists and projects to be announced soon!

Please contribute to keep the Danspace community dancing and thriving! 🤗 Make a donation: https://ci.ovationtix.com/2742/store/donations/4915

📷: Photos by Rachel Keane