Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer and Performer Annie Wilson
We spoke to Annie Wilson (2017), a choreographer and performer whose work intertwines experimental dance, humor, feminist practice, and audience interaction.
The Paradox of Dancing in a Museum
For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, philosopher Marie Bardet reflects on the presumed “paradoxical” idea of dancing in a museum.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet Julia Bloch
We spoke to poet Julia Bloch (2017) whose lyric and prose poems blend the personal and the political to, she says, “negotiate tensions between individual forms of expression and webs of social meaning.”
Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Durational Performance
Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol explains why durational performance “fights our cult of speed."
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Writer and Cultural Scholar Brenda Dixon Gottschild
We spoke to Brenda Dixon Gottschild (2017) whose 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page”—an “embodied, subjunctive approach to research writing.”
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Poet M. Nzadi Keita
We spoke to poet M. Nzadi Keita (2017), whose work weaves intricate narratives with historical research and vivid imagery in both lyric and prose forms.
Pew Fellows of the Week: An Interview with Media Artists Michael Kuetemeyer & Anula Shetty
Pew Fellows and media artists Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty on creating community-engaged work, the best advice they ever received, and more.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe
We spoke to documentary filmmaker David Felix Sutcliffe (2017), who creates intimate, character-driven stories rooted in racial justice and advocacy.
Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso
We spoke to choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso (2017), whose work spans genres and experiments with the participation of audience bodies, personal narratives, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”
Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on Creating a Museum of Dance
Choreographer Boris Charmatz on how Musée de la danse is considering what a collection can be in the field of dance.