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Bryce Dessner is a founding member of the band The National but also a trained composer from Berkeley School of music in Boston. He grew up in Cincinnati and remembered, as a child, the [...]

Split Sides was a very exciting project with Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The concept was to have two independent sets of each element: two 20 minute sets of choreography, two sets of [...]

Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize, her second, for her play Sweat. When writing it she spent years getting to know the city of Reading, PA, where Sweat is set. Reading is the perfect embodiment [...]

I made this piece with Meredith Monk in the late 90s. It was a smallish opera made distinctly for her ensemble. It was a kind of mourning for things gone; objects that still exist but that have [...]

I’ve not played in Montreal often. I was born in Vermont and Montreal was only a couple of hours drive north. We’d go there often as teenagers. It was partly because that was the [...]

The majority of a dancers’ time is spent in a studio. You work to perfect your techniques, learn from your mentors and collaborate with choreographers. It is a physically arduous undertaking [...]

01 Intro ☐ Laying down and taking up marley is a routine part of life in the dance world. Although it is labor intensive and a bit tedious following a simple procedure will get the job done with [...]

Gravity defines every physical action on earth. The shape of our bodies and the form of all our creations are all a direct response to its inescapable power. We know that a body in motion tends [...]

I had been working for L.A. Dance Project for several years when I quit in late 2016. I passed the production management on to a good team but it turned out that their tolerance for the [...]