A Barbara Kasten-Inspired Disruption
2014 Pew Fellow Brent Wahl reflects on how Barbara Kasten's Construct works helped him "make some sense of the forces of the postmodern climate of the 1980s."
Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on Paul Evans
Inspired by the Center-funded Paul Evans retrospective at the James A. Michener Art Museum, we ask Williams and Tsien to reflect on the art-furniture designer's work and its relationship to architecture.
Document(s): Communities of Consciousness and the Begetting of Deborah Hay
This essay is a revision of a paper delivered at the University of Texas as part of "An Uncanny Beauty: A Celebration of Deborah Hay Performance and Symposium," held April 7–8, 2010.
Document(s): Gusmiati Suid & Gumarang Sakti: Moving Forward with Tradition
This paper by Indonesian dance scholar Sal Murgiyanto was originally presented at "Traces of Tradition," a panel discussion held at the International Dance Conference, August 1-4, 2004.
Document(s): Commence to Dancing
David Vaughan, who served as the archivist of the Cunningham Dance Foundation, gave this address to the Dance Critics Association at Dance New Amsterdam in June 2007.
Document(s): Georgina Parkinson: A Dancer in Her Time / Making the Blueprint
Ballet répétiteurs such as Parkinson work one-on-one with dance artists to articulate and find the essence of a character or particular portrayal that becomes distinctive to their physicality.
Document(s): The Dancer and Cambodian History
Dance ethnologist and anthropologist Toni Shapiro-Phim traces the legacy of Cambodian dancer and teacher Pen Sokhuon against a backdrop of historical and political changes in Cambodia.