March 2012
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Stephanie Skura and Lana Wilson: A Critical...
Make sure to check out Stephanie Skura’s newest interview in Movement Research’s ”Critical Correspondence”, in conversation with Performa’s own Lana Wilson. In the interview, conducted before the reveal of her newest work, Two Huts, at Roulette in New York, the choreographer recalls the value of improvisation, impulse, and an appreciation for the unedited in both...
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The Not-So-Secret Life of Danh Vo
By Jennifer Piejko
Danh Vo doesn’t keep secrets. There is no hiding of traumatic postwar escape, suspicion of institutional colonialism, love, mourning, or ambition. It would be easy to disregard institutions and traditions when forging artistic and personal identities, but for Danh Vo that would be missing the point. Here, the personal is truly political.[[MORE]]
His story is almost...
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The Forgotten Bellwethers of a Sonic Revolution
By A.E. Zimmer
There were cries, the kind that can only hint at a dizzying torture.[[MORE]]
“Please stop! No more!”
The pleas squeaked from a 1913 audience, witnessing the sound of the Futurist Movement. In an intimate Italian villa, Luigi Russolo’s intonarumori– roughly sewn instruments made of wooden boxes and conical amplifiers–unapologetically cranked the sounds of the early twentieth...
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Yvonne Rainer in Conversation with RoseLee...
Interview by RoseLee Goldberg
Trio A, 1974. Courtesy the artist.
RoseLee Goldberg: For more than 25 years, from 1975 to 2000, you worked almost exclusively as a filmmaker, producing seminal works such as The Man Who Envied Women (1985) and MURDER and murder (1996). It seemed that during that period you were not choreographing or dancing at all. What changed your mind in 2000 and made...
