Performance
A Holocaust Survivor's Story in Postmodern Dance
Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you're not a Jew.
Bill T. Jones
Interview
Standing Up: Bill T. Jones and Theaster Gates Discuss Their Collaboration
Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Story/Time is a kind of spoken dance piece inspired by John Cage: 70 one-minute stories “interrupted by a chance musical score.”
Art
The Rite of Autumn: Seven NYC Dance Events to Catch this Fall
When scheduling your fall NYC arts itinerary, don't leave out dance. There is a storm of movement coming from both the established companies and individuals with experimental ideas about what movement and the body can mean on stage.
News
UPDATED: Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Unveiled, Mayor Bloomberg Applauds Artist's Courage
Today's rain may have put a damper on the unveiling of Ai Weiwei's “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” (2009) at the Pulitzer Fountain, located at Central Park South and Fifth Avenue, but what certainly cast a pall over the event was the artist's own absence. After over a month since his arrest by the
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What Has Hide/Seek Lost? A Review
On November 30, 1994, choreographer Bill T. Jones’s experimental dance piece “Still/Here” opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The work featured live dancers performing in front of video footage of terminally ill people discussing their sicknesses. Nearly a month later, dance critic Arlene Croce