With a new biography and a production of “Les Noces,” the time has come to reconsider the choreographer, whose work and reputation have languished in the shadows.
Read more about Feb. 20, 1923, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1923 The announcement that Mrs. S.F. Harms, who has just returned from a year of travel in Spain, is going to give a talk on her experiences with the Spanish people next Sunday has been enthusiastically received. All the girls are welcome […]
What might painting have in common with dance? The obvious answers: figuration, composition, gesture. The less obvious: music, a musicality driving a viewer’s experience of time and space. In September 2008, Artforum celebrated the work of iconoclastic British choreographer Michael Clark, inviting contributions from collaborators and admirers such as curator Catherine Wood, dancer Kate Coyne, and painter Silke Otto-Knapp. A lover of dance and theater, Otto-Knapp wrote with such precision and grace about Clark that reading her feels somewhat like dancing. Note how the following sentence performs