Performing
Some Independent Dance Artists who are now well-known dancer-choreographers, a few with their own companies, started out small and unknown.
This list includes some of the many who have impacted our artistic practice:
Simone Forti
Seeing Hearing Peter Van Riper/Simone Forti, c. 1992
Simone Forti: Standing on Gold -- work in progress
Moments. Artist Talk with Simone Forti
Steve Paxton and Simone Forti: In Conversation
Preparatory Watching - Simone Forti: Song of the Vowels 2012
Virtual Studio Visits: Klaus Biesenbach in Conversation with Simone Forti (2021)
Reina Sofía - Simone Forti - Dance Constructions
Simone Forti Huddle NYC High Line 2 (2012)
Forti on All Fours - a talk with Simone Forti
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Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton - Documentaire Danse Contact Improvisation
StevePaxton Solo Dance Performance at CI25
Steve Paxton : Material for the spine - DVDrom Trailer
Steve Paxton at CI36 Juniata College, discussing Magnesium and how he came to create it.
Steve Paxton. Interview. Part 2 talking about Contact Improvisation
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Trisha Brown
Watermotor, filmmaker Babette Mangolte (1978)
Vue sur les marches - Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown Drawing/Performance
Trisha Brown Informance – SRS - Jacob's Pillow Dance 1986
Talking Dance: Trisha Brown (2002)
Trisha Brown: "M.O." (1996) - Choreography to Bach's Musical Offering (1/3)
A Farewell to Trisha Brown - Wendy Perron
The Visionary: Trisha Brown Redefined Dance With Wit and Daring - Deborah Jowitt
Learning from Line Up - Lisa Kraus
Choice/Form in Trisha Brown's Locus: A View from Inside the Cube - Mona Sulzman
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Deborah Hay
Deborah Hay's Solo (excerpt from the DVD series, 9 evenings: theatre & engineering)
Deborah Hay: The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom (1987)
An Interview with Deborah Hay - Up Until Now
Deborah Hay in Conversation with Neil Baldwin on Figure a Sea and other works
Deborah Hay - Using The Sky - Artist Talk Part 1
Dancers Discuss Working with Deborah Hay
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Lisa Nelson
LisaNelson - Conversations in Vermont Text Anthology
Lisa Nelson in conversation with Nita Little
Moving Viewers: An Interview With Lisa Nelson | February 15-2008
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Rosemary Butcher
embedded_vlogger:@ Choreoroam: interview Rosemary Butcher, London
Pause and Loss - Rosemary Butcher - 1976
Imprints - Rosemary Butcher - 1983
Flying Lines - Rosemary Butcher - 1986
Body as Site Film - Rosemary Butcher - 1993
Scan - Rosemary Butcher - 2000
Undercurrent - Rosemary Butcher - 2001
White - Munich - Rosemary Butcher - 2003
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Julyen Hamilton
Barre Phillips / Julyen Hamilton : in The Studio, Fontcoberta, Spain August 2016
Julyen Hamilton -Dancing at an age 2014
Julyen Hamilton Improv Dancer 1993
SUITE WAY NYC nov9 2000 Wash Chrch
INTERVIEW - by Julyen Hamilton
About Performance and the Making of Improvised Pieces
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