Your new work, Paradis, opens soon at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. How did you end up making a piece for that location? When I began developing my last piece, Wilderness, I imagined that it would take place in two venues—an indoor venue like a warehouse, and then you would travel via bus to a ...
Tell us about your working process for “Our Hit Parade” with Bridget Everett and Kenny Mellman. We met doing a monthly show called “Automatic Vaudeville.” I always wanted the three of us to do that again, so we started “Our Hit Parade,” which is in its 3rd year now. It’s crazy; it went by ...
What are you working on now? I started thinking about this right after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan; it was about the time to start thinking about this piece with my collaborator, Jarryd Lowder. On NPR, there were beautiful black and white photographs of an area that was washed away by the tsunami. ...
A tribute to the 117th birthday of Martha Graham. Drawn by Ryan Woodward, creator of another wonderful animated film based on dance, Thought of You.
An interview with Ulay in The Brooklyn Rail, by Alessandro Cassin.