Critical Correspondence

On Retirement by Christine Elmo

“A year and a few months ago, I set out to find what sort of retirement plan is available for dance. However this question is really a topical surface; a lid on a huge can of worms, knotted and torn amongst each other.”

Curating Valeska Gert: Ana Isabel Keilson in conversation with Wolfgang Muller and An Paenhuysen

“In 2010 I began my PhD in the History department at Columbia University, focusing on intellectual history and performance during Weimar Germany. While researching in Berlin, I met An Paenhuysen, a former visiting scholar at Columbia, who had just curated ‘Pause. Valeska Gert: Bewegte Fragmente’ at the Hamburger Banhof with Wolfgang Muller. In addition to co-curating the exhibition, Muller published Valeska Gert: Asthetik der Prasenzen (2010), which includes a reprint of Gert’s memoir, Mein Weg (1931). I was eager to talk with them about this important yet relatively obscure artist.”

Dancing in Palestine: Samar Haddad King in conversation with Katie Baer Schetlick

Katie Schetlick interviews Samar Haddad King, artistic director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, a New York dance theater company. They discuss King’s exploration of Palestinian identity and family history in her new work, which is being made with a group of dancers at the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival in Palestine. This is the third and final interview in a series initiated by Schetlick, documenting her experience at the festival.

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From the CC editors

This Winter, Marissa Perel joins Lydia Bell as artist co-editor. We will share writings and conversations that consider dance and the presence of the body across forms. We are interested in an ongoing investigation into value, time, economies, processes and histories of artists and communities in the U.S. and abroad. We want to engage with your ideas and interests; please contact us with your submission inquiries.

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:
Lydia Bell
Marissa Perel

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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