Performance
A Mashup of Ballet and Postmodern Dance
Dance is a curious thing: an art form that both defies and relies on genre distinctions.
Dance
Performance
The Tricky Business of Dancing with a Robot
It's hard to resist a dancing robot. Taiwanese choreographer Huang Yi's dance piece Huang Yi & YUKA, currently having its US premiere at New York's 3LD Art and Technology Center, shows that it's also very hard to share the stage with a robot.
Performance
From Glitch Parties to Participatory Skipping, a Delirious Dance
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" chants the beaming cast of Faye Driscoll's Thank You for Coming: Attendance as if greeting party guests.
Performance
Dancing Through the Question of Freedom
“The Watershed” remains skeptical about the nature of freedom in what creator Kyle Abraham terms a “poly-phobic society.”
Performance
A Dance of Digital Shadows
Technologies that didn't exist 10 years are opening up fresh possibilities for choreographers and their collaborators. Interactive designer Matt Romein's recent collaborative presentation with choreographer Sophie Sotsky harnessed new developments in motion-capture technology, video programming lang
Performance
Voguing Andy Warhol in Whiteface
In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol posed in drag for a series of Polaroid portraits. Wearing heavy white makeup in works like "Self-Portrait in Drag" (1981), he exudes a ghoulish glamour.
Film
One Day Pina Asked... and Chantal Akerman Listened
Beginning life as an installment in a European television series on modern dance, One Day Pina Asked… (1983) is the best cinematic reflection on the late, great modern dance choreographer Pina Bausch.
Performance
Experiential Dance Theater, but with a Muddled Experience
The Knockdown Center is a sprawling, compound-like factory in Maspeth, Queens, that’s been renovated into an industrial-chic venue striving to, according to the website, “create an adaptable environment that thinks beyond what ‘is.’” In that sense, The Wilder Papers, a semi-guided experiential dance
Interview
Artist Plants a Digital Dance Intervention at MoMA
Art museums and performing artists have a complicated relationship. Though to some they may seem like a natural pairing, or at least a reasonable one, there's an inherent tension.
Art
A Mainstream Museum Welcomes Two Old-Guard Experimentalists
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect upon entering the fourth floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art for a collaborative performance, “illlummminnnatttionnnssss!!!!!!!” (2014), by old-guard experimentalists Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine. The pair had not performed together in over four d
Performance
Ballet Meets Folk for a "Cornbread Duet"
With old-timey string tunes that’ll lift your spirits and your knees, the Carolina Chocolate Drops know how to get the party hopping like no other revivalist band can.
Art
New York Public Library Puts Major Dance Video Archive Online
The New York Public Library recently digitized thousands of hours of its videos in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Moving Image Archive, from grainy historic footage to contemporary productions along with preservations of culture.