Portrait of Rudy Perez 5: Anatomy of a Performance 2
This fifth in a series of portraits of Rudy Perez is akin to the third: an anatomy of a performance and collaboration: The Dance-Crazy Kid from New Jersey Meets Hofmannsthal.
Portrait of Rudy Perez 4: Lingering in Spaces
In talking with Rudy Perez about his career’s performances over the last nine months, I noticed how many took place in art spaces. Of course, by the time I met Rudy in 1980, performances—dance and otherwise—were often hosted by galleries—large and small, for-profit and non. What follows are reminiscences of such productions during the years before I left Los Angeles for Denver in 2005, including bits from our conversations earlier this month.
Portrait of Rudy Perez 3: Anatomy of a Performance
An extension of Part 2 of my interview with dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez. It’s an anatomy of the performance that first brought Rudy and me and my fellows together.
Portrait of Rudy Perez 2: Remain in Light
This is a second conversation with dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez.
Portrait of Rudy Perez
Last year, in Everybody Dance Now 1, I reminisced about studying with dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez in the early 1980s. Nearly four decades later Rudy agreed to let me interview him.
Meeting the Master, Rudy Perez 1929–2023
Tribute to dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez.
Bachelors Anonymous
Most of our readers will know why I haven’t posted here for two months. In preparing for Portrait of Rudy Perez 2: Remain in Light in June, my musical partner Rob Berg and I dusted off music we hadn’t visited in decades.
Jim Morphesis: Conversations in Isolation
Two years ago today I began a virtual dialog with acclaimed visual artist Jim Morphesis in which I queried him about the themes in his work and responded in kind.
Everybody Dance Now 4: Time/Travel
This fourth edition of Everybody Dance Now involves travel in space and time.
Everybody Dance Now 1
An initial meandering musing on dance: casual, staged, amateur, professional, choreographed, spontaneous, celebratory, liberatory.