Lang Arts

04/17/2024

Ta da! On this, my 65th birthday, I hereby unveil my new website.

I've been working hard on reworking the site to avoid a promotional tone, and instead to provide information, written in 1st person (me!).

Many thanks to Kritika Dhariwal for her wonderful work on the design.

What do you think? (Feel free to alert me to any typos or broken links, or...)

06/22/2023

For the past 2 weeks Joseph Lennon and I (Neil Greenberg) have been reconstructing "10's with Shoes" (1981), an oft-overlooked piece within Merce Cunningham's body of work. We've been setting the work on two terrific casts of volunteer dancers - which is good, because we've had to work at breakneck speed. Come see the results on Friday June 23!

“10s with Shoes” can be appreciated for its distinctive movement and the freewheeling performance style it stimulates, as well as for the relation of the movement to both Cunningham’s personal performance history and contemporaneous life. It can also be seen as a methodical development in Cunningham’s utilization of chance processes in a line that begins with “Torse.“

“10s with Shoes” premiered in 1981. Both Joseph Lennon and I were part of the creative process resulting in the work, and performed the work from its premiere until each of us left the company. Our interest in working on “10s” stems from its sui generis place within the body of Cunningham’s work.

Like “Fielding Sixes” (1980), which Cunningham made just prior, “10s” is constructed from a gamut of rigorously metered movement phrases. “10s” stands alone, though, not only because it was indeed made to be performed in shoes, but more importantly for the singularly idiosyncratic movement that Cunningham explained as being in part related to “the look of young people now.” “10s” might be seen as Cunningham’s response to the Punk subculture of the time.

12/02/2021

LANG DANCE * FIRST IN-PERSON SHOW IN TWO YEARS!

Dec 10 & 11 - Wonderful works for the The New School/Lang students from guest choreographers JOANNA KOTZE and MARIANA VALENCIA, along with senior capstone video-dances from 2020 graduates Nick Blankenship and Diana Uribe. Incredible lighting by Joe Levasseur and sublime stage management by Meredith Belis. It's been a pleasure to work on this - this is a very special show.

Open to the public! But note the safety protocols: Audience members must show proof of vaccination, be masked at all times, and have had a negative PCR test within no more than seven days prior to the performance.
Registration links:

Dec 10: https://event.newschool.edu/langdancefallproduction
Dec 11: https://event.newschool.edu/langdancefallproductionday2

(photo by Frank Mullaney)

09/12/2021

I am thrilled to welcome JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO: HYDRAULICS OF GRIEF on MONDAY 9/13 at 6pm as a guest artist speaker for the "PERFORMANCE IN THE AGE OF PANDEMIC" Arts Platform, a virtual, public-facing event series at The New School.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Just register via the link below:
https://event.newschool.edu/performancepandemic

03/28/2021

Hi all - Jeannine Tang has provided a set of resources for all of us in the wake of continued violence against AAPI folx across the country. A couple of events have already passed, but the Student Success event Monday at 4pm is still upcoming.
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From Professor Tang:

Dear everyone

I am writing to share an optional, non-compulsory set of resources: upcoming events hosted at TNS intended to hold space for AAPI staff, faculty and students. And a few links to relevant ideas, debates, and recent work about and by AAPI scholars and artists that I have turned to this past week. I'm sharing them with you in case any of them strike your interest--if you feel like discussing them, feel free to reach out.

Wishing you ease and care, and I look forward to seeing you all again next week.

very best
Jeannine

TNS EVENTS

All AAPI-identifying members of our TNS community are welcome to join us this Friday evening at 8pm. Just to be and to be together.

* Holding Space AAPI TNS, Mar 26, 2021 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/97447011359?pwd=OHRYWHNibHpnZytvcTFxeE5YOE56dz09
Password: 877414

* Student Success will also hold the following community space for ALL,
Thursday, March 25, 7PM EST - Join on Zoom
Monday, March 29, 4PM EST - Join on Zoom

LINKS

The links include reporting on the collective Godzilla withdrawing from their retrospective at the Museum of Chinese in America, in opposition to a jail that is part of the funding received by the institution--as an instance of Asian-American collective representation in direct solidarity with ending the conditions for anti-Blackness. Also included is a conversation I facilitated with Amy Sadao, former museum director of the ICA Philadelphia: this was an event organized for last year's Exhibitions as History class. Sadao is one of the Godzilla members that withdrew. I am also including a new book on letters by AAPI folks in the arts, edited by Christopher Ho and a link to his upcoming MOCA talk on these. Also, the website of artist Una Osata who has done work in the form of political protest, s*x ed, cabaret and burlesque. I am also including the work of musician, organizer and healer Alicia Ohs, whose online movement based workshops have been helpful for easing the stiffness of trauma in the body, along with her political education work. I am also including a link to Chitra Ganesh's commission on the Leslie Lohman museum windows, that shows ensemble portraits of Asian, Black, Indigenous activists, movement leaders, historical symbols, anonymous people, historical sites of Senaca Village and NYC as Lenape land -- if you pass through Soho/Tribeca that's an exhibition you can take in from the street view through October 2021. An audio guide featuring some of the people represented, and conversation with an artist can be downloaded from the webpage. And finally, an interview on leading with love, from one of the original members of the Combahee River Collective--Margo Okazawa-Rey who has been part of building Afro-Asian solidarities for half a century now.

https://www.artforum.com/news/museum-of-chinese-in-america-cancels-godzilla-collective-exhibition-after-protesting-artists-withdraw-85236
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlMyQTASbAI
https://www.mocanyc.org/event/curators-in-conversation-christopher-k-ho/
https://shop.nplusonemag.com/products/best-letters-from-asian-americans-in-the-arts
http://www.unaosato.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thisisuna/?hl=en
https://aliciaohs.com/about.html
https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/chitra-ganesh-a-city-will-share-her-secrets-if-you-know-how-to-ask
https://aaww.org/on-the-radical-possibilities-of-leading-with-love-an-interview-with-dr-margo-okazawa-rey/

Art Work Talk: Amy Sadao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlMyQTASbAI&t=3s

03/16/2021

GREAT NEWS! The 2021 Lang Summer Dance Intensive is ON!

In Person • 2 Sessions • 4 Courses • 3 Liberal Arts Credits Per Course

For more information:
https://www.langdance.com/2021-summer-intensive

Photo: Frank Mullaney

Great news! The 2021 Lang Summer Dance Intensive is ON! • In Person • 2 Sessions • 4 Courses • 3 Liberal Arts Credits Per Course

09/14/2020

The first VIRTUAL BODIES public event is TONIGHT at 8pm!
The U.S. Premiere of "CHEAP People Are Other People," a five-reel feature by the Berlin-based CHEAP Collective.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of VIRTUAL BODIES, a weekly series of webinar discussions, presentations, and performances featuring artists and curators, hosted by faculty from the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. All events are free and open to the public, but require advance registration.

The U.S. Premiere ofCHEAP People Are Other PeopleA five-reel feature by the Berlin-based CHEAP CollectiveWith Robin Behling, Katharina Bischoff, John Blue, Tim Blue, Maximilian Brauer, Vaginal Davis, Gina D´Orio, Anton Garber, Richard Gabriel Gersch, Salome Gersch, Daniel Hendrickson, Martha Hösch...

06/18/2020

At long last, the 2020 Lang Arts Senior Capstone projects are online.

Better late than never - that's my all-too-often used motto. Apologies for the delay in getting this link to you. It took somewhat longer than expected to get the website published, and then came the murder of George Floyd on May 25 and ensuing protests. I hope you're all doing ok during these difficult times.

Kudos to each of the 2020 Lang Arts graduates who chose to include their work on this website. It's thrilling to see these projects collected together. I hope you'll share the link with family and friends - this work deserves to be seen and heard.

- Neil Greenberg, Chair of The Arts

Arts senior seminars bridge the collective experience of studying the arts at Lang with students’ individual paths of study. The projects foreground the process of formulating and realizing creative and intellectual projects within a supportive peer context.

06/05/2020

Yesterday's moving speech from Dwight A. McBride, the new president of The New School, in response to "the staggering moment in our history through which we are currently navigating."

That's leadership. Thank you, President McBride.