Comments for Vencl Dance http://www.vencldance.org the new dance Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Support by Susan Vencl http://www.vencldance.org/2010/06/20/the-core-of-the-support-system/comment-page-1/#comment-546 Susan Vencl Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:04:28 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=827#comment-546 Leave comments on this post, OR any other post or any page, here. I cannot find a way to enable comments on pages and have closed older posts because I do not check them regularly enough. I welcome all discussion. Or contact me at susan@vencldance.org. 6/24/2010 Leave comments on this post, OR any other post or any page, here. I cannot find a way to enable comments on pages and have closed older posts because I do not check them regularly enough. I welcome all discussion. Or contact me at susan@vencldance.org. 6/24/2010

]]> Comment on Merce Cunningham by Susan Vencl http://www.vencldance.org/2009/07/31/merce-cunningham/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Susan Vencl Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:07:13 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=683#comment-312 The space is a work space. Creation goes on there daily. People learn how to dance and perform there. Out of each of its 10 huge windows is a panoramic, 11th floor view of New York City. The space perfectly equipped for making and performing dances in this City. What I as a choreographer must have abosolutely, is enough room to articulate momentums, gusts of energy, to explore how they emerge, surge, subside and transform. Merce did influence my choreography. He helped me release my imagination because I knew that in the end there would be room enough for the consequences. Phrases would fit. If I wanted a leap I could have it. Merce made available to other City choreographers the tools he himself needed to make his own work and show it informally. Renting out this space he loved to other unknown choreographers cost, it did not earn money. Inevitably there was wear and tear on equipment; also arranging and overseeing productions and audiences required dedicated and skilled staff. The Cunningham Dance Studio has been a priceless gift to the New York City dance community and perhaps it will continue to be. Funding for next year has been cut. The space is a work space. Creation goes on there daily. People learn how to dance and perform there. Out of each of its 10 huge windows is a panoramic, 11th floor view of New York City. The space perfectly equipped for making and performing dances in this City. What I as a choreographer must have abosolutely, is enough room to articulate momentums, gusts of energy, to explore how they emerge, surge, subside and transform. Merce did influence my choreography. He helped me release my imagination because I knew that in the end there would be room enough for the consequences. Phrases would fit. If I wanted a leap I could have it. Merce made available to other City choreographers the tools he himself needed to make his own work and show it informally. Renting out this space he loved to other unknown choreographers cost, it did not earn money. Inevitably there was wear and tear on equipment; also arranging and overseeing productions and audiences required dedicated and skilled staff.

The Cunningham Dance Studio has been a priceless gift to the New York City dance community and perhaps it will continue to be. Funding for next year has been cut.

]]> Comment on Merce Cunningham by Margaret Gosden http://www.vencldance.org/2009/07/31/merce-cunningham/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Margaret Gosden Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:46:58 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=683#comment-245 It was really interesting to read your tribute to, and reminders of Merce Cunningham's career. That you performed CHANGING PLACES at his studio recently was a treat.... in that the piece seemed to reflect something of his influence upon your work, enhanced by the ambience of the space so much created by him. I very much enjoyed the performance. It was really interesting to read your tribute to, and reminders of Merce Cunningham’s career. That you performed CHANGING PLACES at his studio recently was a treat…. in that the piece seemed to reflect something of his influence upon your work, enhanced by the ambience of the space so much created by him. I very much enjoyed the performance.

]]> Comment on Photos of Changing Places by Margaret Gosden http://www.vencldance.org/2009/07/03/photos-of-changing-places/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Margaret Gosden Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:36:15 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=673#comment-179 A really neat post altogether, complete with slide show. Illuminating! A really neat post altogether, complete with slide show. Illuminating!

]]> Comment on The New Dance by Susan Vencl http://www.vencldance.org/2009/06/05/changing-places-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Susan Vencl Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:44:22 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=648#comment-36 Not for me. Not for me.

]]> Comment on The New Dance by eulakir http://www.vencldance.org/2009/06/05/changing-places-2/comment-page-1/#comment-35 eulakir Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:43:18 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=648#comment-35 It is easier to tell, than to make. It is easier to tell, than to make.

]]> Comment on The New Dance by GarykPatton http://www.vencldance.org/2009/06/05/changing-places-2/comment-page-1/#comment-34 GarykPatton Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:44:57 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=648#comment-34 I have been looking looking around for this kind of information. Will you post some more in future? I'll be grateful if you will. I have been looking looking around for this kind of information. Will you post some more in future? I’ll be grateful if you will.

]]> Comment on The New Dance by Susan Vencl http://www.vencldance.org/2009/06/05/changing-places-2/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Susan Vencl Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:17:30 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=648#comment-28 Thanks, Margaret. I find I like the slide show format for the First Look at a new dance. Video cuts of rehearsal runs weaken the material partly because they are cuts and partly because so they are filled with so many visual distractions. But then photos are static, and this is a dance website. So......voila! A slide show! I am learning. I think I now know what kind of photos I need to collect in order to make a slide show. Thanks, Margaret.

I find I like the slide show format for the First Look at a new dance. Video cuts of rehearsal runs weaken the material partly because they are cuts and partly because so they are filled with so many visual distractions. But then photos are static, and this is a dance website. So……voila! A slide show!

I am learning. I think I now know what kind of photos I need to collect in order to make a slide show.

]]> Comment on The New Dance by Margaret Gosden http://www.vencldance.org/2009/06/05/changing-places-2/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Margaret Gosden Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:29:57 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=648#comment-25 That is really wonderful! It is a little different, perhaps more interesting than some slide shows I have seen. That is really wonderful! It is a little different, perhaps more interesting than some slide shows I have seen.

]]> Comment on Crouch by Margaret Gosden http://www.vencldance.org/2009/05/02/crouch/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Margaret Gosden Wed, 06 May 2009 11:52:26 +0000 http://www.vencldance.org/?p=610#comment-17 Beautiful! Great shot for your album Julia. Beautiful! Great shot for your album Julia.

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