BILL'S BLOG
11/25/2014
Context Notes: Neil Greenberg
The Meaning of “Meaning”: Neil Greenberg
by Paul David Young
When I met Neil Greenberg in the auditorium of New York Live Arts, he was munching on a salad. Barefoot and in track pants, he was from the start quite affable and welcomed my presence at his first time to try out This in the space in which it would be performed. He had unexpectedly been given an early opportunity to explore the piece in the theater at Live Arts for one day and generously invited me to join them. (more…)
11/14/2014
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Stay Late Conversation
11/06/2014
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Come Early Conversation
11/03/2014
Context Notes: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
By Chance
by Jedediah Wheeler
By chance, I was working for an artists’ management collective at Westbeth (NYC) in the seventies. Merce Cunningham’s studio was located down the hall. The building had been part of Bell Labs and its president used our offices. My job was to find performance opportunities for avant-garde artists such as Richard Foreman, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Gordon, Lucinda Childs and Mabou Mines. One artist in the collective already had a formidable performance career and I was told that he did not need my attention. His name was John Cage. John Cage was mushrooming worldwide on his own! (more…)
10/30/2014
Giséle Vienne & Dennis Cooper: Come Early Conversation
10/29/2014
Gisèle Vienne Stay Late Discussion
10/23/2014
Context Notes: Gisèle Vienne
Gisèle Vienne: Disturbance in Representation
By Bernard Vouilloux
The French-Austrian artist Gisèle Vienne (b. 1976) has made the stage her primary artistic material. Deceptively theatrical, her pieces function as tableaux or cinematic shots, hybrid representations of what is inexpressible in human relations. An analysis by Bernard Vouilloux, professor of literature and the visual arts at the Sorbonne. (more…)
10/23/2014
Cythia Oliver Come Early Conversation with Nia Love
10/21/2014
2014 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Awards
Big congratulations to all of the 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award recipients! Special congratulations to John Jasperse for winning Outstanding Production for his piece Within between, Stuart Singer for winning Outstanding Performance in John Jasperse’s Within between and Rebecca Serrell-Cyr for winning Outstanding Performance in Donna Uchizono’s Fire Underground. Read the New York Times Review of the Bessies.