Critical Correspondence

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Jessie Gold and Sam Gordon in conversation with Alyssa Gersony

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) held the second edition of its art fair – NADA New York – May 10th through May 12th at Pier 36, Basketball City, showcasing over 70 international visual art galleries, representing 13 countries. This year, amidst the traditional art fair model, NADA also hosted Contemporary Dancing under the curation and organization of Sam Gordon [...]

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Joanna Kotze in conversation with Jesse Zaritt

Dancer/choreographer/educator Jesse Zaritt talks with dancer/choreographer Joanna Kotze about her creative practices and choreographic investigations, the role that New York has played in her development as an artist, her trajectory as an architect-turned-dance student, and the notions of perception and audience experience. Her newest work “it happened it had happened it is happening it will happen” will be shown at Danspace Project, May 30-June 1, 2013.

Michelle Boule in rehearsal for WONDER, photo by Wah Ming Chang

Michelle Boulé in conversation with Matthew Walker

ISSUE Project Room was first introduced to Michelle Boule through her participation in cellist/composer/improviser Okkyung Lee’s 2011 Artist-in-Residency at ISSUE. As evidenced by her collaborative performance with Lee, Boule’s layered and transfixing engagement with movement, light, performance space, and audience suggested she would be an ideal fit for our 2012 Emerging Artists Commission program, which sought to reach outside our normal sound-oriented range of focus to encompass transdisciplinary practices. ISSUE Development Director Matthew Walker discusses process, authenticity, vulnerability and texture in performance with dancer/choreographer Michelle Boule in anticipation of her upcoming premiere, WONDER, May 30-31.

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From the CC editors

Co-editors Nicole Daunic and Aaron Mattocks are committed to diverse forms of writing that engage with the ephemeral nature of performance. We seek to investigate how subjective experience contextualizes live arts practices through experimentation with the narrative voice among artists, scholars, and citizens. We invite submissions that imaginatively and critically examine the processes and histories of artists and communities in the U.S. and abroad. 

Critical Correspondence is an artist-driven project of Movement Research that aims to activate, develop and increase the visibility of critical discourse on dance and movement-based performance work.

We initiate conversations and writings to map the language surrounding current practices and to establish a dialogue between artists and others who are engaged with this work. We also host contributions from artists/writers traveling, working in different localities or reporting from a particular working process.

Editors:
Aaron Mattocks
Nicole Daunic

Interns:
Alyssa Gersony
Lydia Mokdessi

To contribute or propose an interview, research project or other form of writing, please contact us. In keeping with Movement Research’s mission, we are especially interested in writings that explore an artistic process over time, with the understanding that we are using the term process in its widest possible definition.

cc@movementresearch.org

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