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Wise Blood by Chris Larson and Anthony Gatto, co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center and The Soap Factory, June 2015. Photo by Jordan Rosenow.
Marian Bantjes, Lost Child, installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Bob and Roberta Smith, MoMA WILL BE FREE (2011) and CREATING THINGS (2011), installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Figure 8, performed by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Photo © Thibault Gregoire, 2013.
Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.
Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. In this version the dimensions are 32 by 28 feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. In her archive Childs refers to this as a “grid.” Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.
Rehearsal photo of Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen's The Body Lautrec. Photo by Richard Termine Photography.
Untitled work by Bob and Roberta Smith, installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Mike Kelley, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #32, Plus, a Performa commission, curated by Mark Beasley. Photo by Paula Court. Courtesy of Performa.
Anna Halprin teaching Planetary Dance to Tamalpa Institute students, May 2015. Photo © Sue Heinemann.
Questions of Practice

God Must be a Dancer

Aaron Cromie’s A Paper Garden, commissioned and produced for the American Philosophical Society Museum’s Greenhouse Projects. Photo by Brent Wahl. Pictured: Genevieve Perrier [in the dress] and Mary Tuomanen [in the hat].
Brent Wahl, At Odds with a Reflection, 2013, 20 x 30
Reconstructie (1969), a morality, composed together with Louis Andriessen, Reinbert de Leeuw, Misha Mengelberg, and Jan van Vlijmen. Libretto: Hugo Claus, Harry Mulisch. Duration: 130 minutes. Photo by Maria Austria.
Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. In this version the dimensions are 32 by 28 feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. In her archive Childs refers to this as a “grid.” Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.
Ain Gordon during a creative residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, March 2015. Photo by Janelle Jones.
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, GAMMAgreen/x-sea-scape, 2006, installation view, \Invisible Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany
Lucinda Childs’ Available Light in performance at the Drexel University Armory as part of the 2015 FringeArts Fringe Festival. Photo © Jacques-Jean Tiziou. Courtesy of FringeArts.
The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) presents the world premiere of Agua Furiosa from CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater in January 2016. Photo by Tyrone Domingo. Courtesy of CAP UCLA. 
The cast of Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
Amy Sadao. Photo by Constance Mensh.
Detail of a model canoe, on view at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. Photo courtesy Peabody Essex Museum.
The Laundromat Project's annual Field Day celebrates neighborhood culture in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Harlem, and Hunts Point/Longwood. Photo by Emilee Ramsier. Courtesy of The Laundromat Project.
WXPN’s Zydeco Crossroads. Photo by Matthew Shaver, courtesy of WXPN.
Love Letter by Steve Powers, produced by Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Photo by Zoe Strauss.