What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
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.”
Choreographer Boris Charmatz on how Musée de la danse is considering what a collection can be in the field of dance.
Curator Bisi Silva on why she considers “the local” to be an “expanded field of engagement and practice.”
Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.
In September 2016, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score.”
What if an art collection were treated like a musical or choreographic score—existing both as a historical document and as the material for an interpretive performance that could be played at any moment?
Ann Hamilton on “consuming” versus “having” an experience.
Boris Charmatz on why dance is “the right medium to re-enchant the public sphere.”
Major Jackson reads two sections from Urban Renewal, the opening suite of poems in his book Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, award-winning poet, playwright, professor, and Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez (1993) visited the Center for a conversation with her former student and Pew Fellow Major Jackson (1995), as well as a poetry reading of 10 Haikus for Max Roach.