Perspectives on Performance

Photo Credit: Narcissister Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Masked and merkin-ed, she works at the intersection of dance, art, and activism in a range of media including film, video art, and experimental music. She has presented work...

Will Rawls is a New York-based choreographer, performance artist, curator and writer. His work focuses on relationship and transitions between dance and language in order to consider the poetics of blackness, abstraction and opacity. He is currently...

Theater, Dance & Media's first Spring 2019 Perspectives of Performance is with artist Michael Portnoy. Michael Portnoy is a New York-based visual and performing artist. Coming from a background in writing, dance and experimental comedy, his work employs a...

Stanya Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video with a practice that includes drawing, sound, writing, performance and sculpture/installation. Humor, pathos and the uncanny emerge as central modes in a hybrid media practice that...

RESCHEDULED! About Annie Dorsen Annie Dorsen works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, algorithmic theater. Most recently, Yesterday Tomorrow premiered at the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), and was presented at T2G...

Gideon Lester is Artistic Director for Theater & Dance at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and Director of the Theater & Performance Program at Bard College. He is also co-curator of Crossing the Line, an annual international arts...

About Annie Dorsen Annie Dorsen works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, algorithmic theater. Most recently, Yesterday Tomorrow premiered at the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), and was presented at T2G (Gennevilliers) as...

Over the last four decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. Hershman Leeson presents her feature film Teknolust (2002, 85 min.) and a short film VertiGhost (2017, 13 min.). Following the...

Sahra Motalebi (b. 1979) is a visual artist, composer and vocalist born in Birmingham Alabama. Often formatted as performance-exhibition, her work includes opera, scenographic installation, vocal composition and recordings, painting, sculpture, video and...

Perspectives on Performance is a new series that invites prominent artists and academics from different disciplines to speak about their work in and on interdisciplinary performance. Thomas J. Lax is the Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at...