G-Chat Recap: Editors Discuss 2017 Fall For Dance

Fall For Dance is always a huge talkabout here in the Dance Media offices. So after all the programs were performed this year, a few of the editors from Dance Magazine, Pointe and Dance Teacher got together on Google Hangouts this morning to share our thoughts. Here are excerpts from our convo: Jennifer Stahl, Dance […]

Trisha Brown Comes to the Berkshires

For a special viewing of the Trisha Brown: In Plain Site series, Jacob’s Pillow is teaming up with the Clark Art Institute, one of the best museums in the Berkshires. The Institute’s exquisite landscaping will no doubt provide a harmonious setting for the profound simplicity of Brown’s early work on Aug. 13. This free event […]

When Art Dances: Inside the Rauschenberg Exhibit at MoMA

It’s well known that Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most famous American artists of the 20th century, made costumes and sets for Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor and Trisha Brown. What you may not know is that he also choreographed and danced in many performances of his own devising. You can see evidence of them among […]

To Celebrate Our 90th Birthday, We Took a Trip Down Memory Lane

It’s our 90th anniversary! To celebrate, we excavated some of our favorite hidden gems from the DM Archives—images that capture a few of the moments in time we’ve documented over the decades. Ted Shawn surveys the construction of the Jacob’s Pillow theater, 1942 Courtesy DM Archives Trisha Brown (right) and company walking on the Great […]

8 Iconic Dance History Moments—As Told Through Lego Bricks

We’re not ashamed to admit it: The Dance Magazine staff is a big bunch of dance history nerds. But we also know that, sometimes, learning about our art form’s past via textbook can feel stale. That’s why we completely lost it (in a good way) when Seet Dance, a contemporary school in Sydney, Australia, contacted […]

What It's Like to Dance All Night

That feeling when you have four shows between 7 pm and 7 am What does it feel like to dance an all-night marathon of performances? Five dancers recently found out during  Trisha Brown: In Plain Site, part of “A Night of Philosophy and Ideas” at the Brooklyn Public Library. The festival of screenings, debate and performances took place in over […]

Jackson Pollock, Meet Trisha Brown

One afternoon last October, visitors to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art who had come to see paintings by Picasso and van Gogh stumbled upon some unexpected works: Twenty dancers, scattered throughout the museum, were performing solos by artists ranging from Martha Graham to Michael Jackson. “Musée de la danse” at New York’s Museum […]

Dance Matters: Trisha Brown's Group Forges Ahead Without Her

When it comes to postmodern choreography, Trisha Brown is royalty. Her half-century of work includes the exhilaratingly disorienting “equipment pieces” (as in Walking on the Wall), her beguiling mathematical structures (as in her “accumulations”), her famously liquid movement quality (see Brown’s Artist Statement for her elegant definition of “pure movement”), and her reenvisioning of dance […]