EventsCommon Ground#758

A conversation with Danspace Project

Featuring Judy Hussie-Taylor, Seta Morton, and Gillian Jakab, with Lu Yim

Thursday, March 2, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Danspace Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor and Danspace Program Director Seta Morton join Rail Dance Editor Gillian Jakab for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Lu Yim.

In this Talk

Judy Hussie-Taylor

Since taking the helm at Danspace Project in 2008, Judy Hussie-Taylor (Executive Director & Chief Curator) has developed critically-acclaimed programs including the PLATFORM series, a print and online publication program, and a series of research programs to complement Danspace’s presenting series. During her career she has curated and collaborated with leading contemporary dance and performance artists including Kyle Abraham, Simone Forti, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Joan Jonas, among others. She has served on numerous national grants panels and given talks and lectures at Yale University, Walker Art Center, and elsewhere. She received the first Bessie Award ever given for curation in 2016 and was conferred a Chevalier D’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2014.

Seta Morton

Seta Morton is an interdisciplinary curator, performance producer, writer/editor, and dance artist based in Lenapehoking (New York, NY). She is the Program Director & Associate Curator at Danspace Project and has served as the managing editor for over a dozen Online Journal issues and print publications to date at Danspace, including Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual with Kyle Abraham, Reassembly: Field Notes for Unknowing (2023), among others. Independently, Seta has guest curated for PAGEANT and curated a solo exhibition of glass sculptures by artist, Yves B. Golden for the Feminist Center for Creative Work. Her writing has been published with Danspace Project, Gibney Journal, The Feminist Center for Creative Work/Co-Conspirator Press, Villa Albertine, and BOMB Magazine.

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Gillian Jakab

Dance editor of the Brooklyn Rail Gillian Jakab is also associate editor of Gagosian Quarterly. Her writing on dance and other topics has appeared in these publications, among others. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and a MA from Columbia University. She was raised and lives in Brooklyn.

http://gillian-jakab.squarespace.com/bio

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨