How can history and traditions be reimagined for today’s audiences?
In conjunction with the recent Center-funded retrospective, Trisha Brown: In the New Body, we invited author and art critic Douglas Crimp and MoMA PS1's Peter Eleey to reflect on Brown's influential choreographic practice.
Richard Torchia and Catherine Morris consider visual artist Pati Hill's contemporaneity, the creative influence of emerging technologies, and Hill's place in contemporary and conceptual art.
Composer Vijay Iyer on the musical lineage that influences his artistic practice.
Preservation director Libbie Hawes on the process of making historical sites meaningful to contemporary audiences.
Director Michał Zadara and actress Barbara Wysocka on how classical works influence contemporary theater-making.
Conductor Donald Nally and violinist Hanna Khoury on how tradition influences their approach to bringing together a classical Arab chamber ensemble and a Western choir in performance.
Carnatic musician and composer Kiranavali Vidyasankar talks with us about continuing her family's musical legacy, the role of tradition in her artistic practice, and more.
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."
We speak to postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin about her introduction to dance, various turning points in her artistic career, and the importance of creating dance that responds to pressing social and political issues.
Bill Bissell, Director of Performance, and choreographer Lucinda Childs discussed the collaborative research effort that led to the creation of the Center’s fourth danceworkbook.