• March 7, 2013

    The dancer’s body: A space of resistance?

    By Published On: March 7th, 2013

      The Goethe-Institut San Francisco supports Isabelle Schad's research work for her new production COLLECTIVE JUMPS and has also initiated an artist talk on the CounterPULSE stage that will bring together the Berlin & San Francisco Dance Scene on March 13, 2013. Furthermore Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring will show one piece out of the

  • March 3, 2013

    UNTURTLED #4

    By Published On: March 3rd, 2013

      "UNTURTLED might suggest a removal of the shell from the turtle’s back to reveal what is hidden beneath. The work of Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring, however, doesn’t allow us to peep under the cover. On the contrary, the body is disappearing almost completely underneath the moving accessory that nevertheless exposes its movements as

  • February 26, 2013

    Jesse Zaritt on “You’re Me”

    By Published On: February 26th, 2013

    Jesse Zaritt, my co-performer in You're Me, recently wrote an essay on the work which can be found in full on Culturebot: "What is at stake in Faye’s work – especially the duet You’re Me – is a question of how far the performance of self can be extended. What kind of radical intervention could

  • February 19, 2013

    Chinese Classical Dance VS. Peking Opera

    By Published On: February 19th, 2013

    Peking opera is a form of traditional Chinese theater which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed by the mid-19 century. At the beginning of establishment of Communist China in 1949, China is alike an old and tattered house in which all basic

  • February 18, 2013

    Why dance?

    By Published On: February 18th, 2013

    As I tackle multiple projects at the same time, feeling the anxiety of deadlines, reaching for my own expectations of greatness, and fighting the apprehension of failure, I have come back to the fundamental question for me: Why dance? Why the heck would anyone give up luxury, money, fancy job titles, and above all laziness and

  • February 15, 2013

    Twinship, Sameness, Biology: A Hypothesis

    By Published On: February 15th, 2013

    Watch me. Watch me. In your imitation is the attention I crave. “He’s going to feel watched.” “He’s going to seek my approval.” “He thought about how space is anything but neutral.”   What does it mean to be identical to someone else? Oskar Stohr and Jack Yufe are identical twins who were separated shortly

  • February 13, 2013

    Symptomatic (Writing the Movement)

    By Published On: February 13th, 2013

    He’s going to say something. He moves his lips in front of the microphone. He adjusts. He adjusts again. At the back of the space the other dancer is moving in position. He stands up, walks to the front. Then they are both standing alert. Still. Breathing. Then break. Shadows against the white paper. Copy

  • February 12, 2013

    Rhizozygotic twins beat the frozen odds

    By Published On: February 12th, 2013

      Scientific American, 14 June 2007 Emmett and Otto Ramstad present a fascinating glimpse into the diversity of biology. They are rhizozygotic twins. Rhizozygotic twins are an extremely rare form of multiple birth, enabled by the wonders of assisted reproductive technology. On September 20 1975, an egg, or blastocyst, was harvested from the Ramstad twins’

  • February 12, 2013

    the frizzzzzzzz

    By Published On: February 12th, 2013

  • February 12, 2013

    God only knows what I’d be without you.

    By Published On: February 12th, 2013

    A draft version of a song we've been working on... (click below, then on the next screen click "god only knows") god only knows_draft  

  • February 11, 2013

    DEMONS FOR HOT TEA, please.

    By Published On: February 11th, 2013

    Feb. 10, 2013 The crew of ‘Of Limb & Language’ travels to Earthdance today, to the E|MERGE residency, for two weeks of retreat. In the TSA line at SFO, my elation and gratitude is mixed with apprehension. Distance affords politeness: how will we survive two weeks of non-stop abstract somatic investigation into the production of

  • February 11, 2013

    Journey to the Kongo — The Creation of Kimpa Vita! A Solo ChoreOpera — Blog #1

    By Published On: February 11th, 2013

    I am not sure I can ever recall feeling such an urgent and bone-deep calling to tell a story, or a desire to delve deeply into myself in order to craft a new work in dance, music and theater. Of course, like any other artist, I have experienced both sudden shudders and slow simmers of