Eugene Lang Department of Contemporary Dance, The New School

CONGRATULATIONS to MICHAEL ROBERSON on the publication of his new BALLROOM: A HISTORY, A MOVEMENT, A CELEBRATION, featured in this SLATE interview (/life/2025/07/ballroom-house-voguing-resistance-lgbtq-backlash.html). Lang Dance is so proud to have Michael on our faculty! This coming fall semester Michael will again be teaching his VOGUE'OLOGY course at Lang Arts, reurning to the Lang Dance curriculum this time (LDAN 3130 / CRN 18216). Also check out the exhibition LEGENDARY LOOKS: MY BALLROOM STORY at Pioneerworks by Felix Rodriguez. Michael is featured! /exhibitions/felix-rodriguez-legendary-looks-my-ballroom-story

CONGRATULATIONS to MICHAEL ROBERSON on the publication of his new BALLROOM: A HISTORY, A MOVEMENT, A CELEBRATION! Lang Dance is so proud to have Michael on our faculty! This coming fall semester Michael will again be teaching his VOGUE'OLOGY course at Lang Arts, returning to the Lang Dance curriculum this time (LDAN 3130 / CRN 18216). Also check out the exhibition LEGENDARY LOOKS: MY BALLROOM STORY at Pioneerworks by Felix Rodriguez. Michael is featured! /exhibitions/felix-rodriguez-legendary-looks-my-ballroom-story

Videos and Photos of the Lang Dance Spring Production 2025 are now online! langdance.com > Resources (password is 001) Enjoy!!! @stacymspence @futuredancestor @ballez.company @jaamil_means_beauty

The print version looks better! Baby's first (and probably only) journal article. Many years in the making. Finally off my desk and published yesteday. Open Access PDF link below and in bio. Photo by Peter Fischer. Quite a process tracking down the photographer's estate and obtaining rights! pictured: Carolyn Brown and Merce Cunningham bowing after a performance of "Night Wandering" (1958) from a performance in Cologne on 5 October 1960. Note the gender conventions of their bow, with Brown in a curtsy and Cunningham with his weight on both feet, supporting her. (Photo by Peter Fischer; courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Trust and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library, with permission from the photographer’s estate) /file/d/160fCC4KGLuSQLTEWoPH0bFEzE5LeSROS/view?usp=sharing

Baby's first (and probably only) journal article! Many years in the making. Finally off my desk and published today. Open Access link below and in bio. /core/journals/the-drama-review/article/queer-thoughts-on-merce-cunningham/30AC3EC835C9BE7D7089630A5A72ED51

I'm teaching a new workshop this year for Summer MELT through Movement Research @movementresearch . (Registration link in bio, and below). Workshop description: Queer as adjective, verb, and noun: What might make a performance action queer? What is it to queer performance? What constitutes a queering? We’ll begin our performance-making experiments with *the queer* by working within compositional frameworks culled from a choreographic workshop taught by choreographer Merce Cunningham in 1978 (I was a 19 year-old student), in tandem with considering queer implications in the work and lives of Cunningham (1919-2009) and composer John Cage (1912-1992), artistic collaborators and life partners who worked within the “open closet” of the NYC art communities of the mid-20th century. Using Cunningham’s and Cage’s philosophies and practices as a case study we’ll explore possibilities offered by lesbian/gay/queer cultural analyses by considering ways these artists queered the aesthetic practices of their times. We’ll then bring those explorations forward through directed improvisation and performance-making experiments, centering on the queering of form and process – irrespective of whether the actual materials or performance actions are explicitly queer (though we’ll look at that possibility too). Additional points of departure for investigation will include queer excess, ambiguity, failure and futurity. Registration link for my workshop: /workshops/2859/ Check out the entire SUMMER MELT lineup of workshops: /MELT

FINAL NIGHT! - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - Wonderful works for the The New School/Lang students from (in order of photos): 1. Stacy Matthew Spence 2. Student-scored improvisation from Juliette Mapp's "Performance Research: Improvisation Through Theory and Practice" course 3. Katy Pyle 4 & 5. jaamil olawale kosoko, Guest Artist Residency Incredible lighting by Kathy Kaufman and sublime stage management by Stacey-Jo Marine. It's been a pleasure to work on this - this is a very special show. Fri April 25 and St April 26 New York Live Arts 219 W 19th Street Free! photos by @frankmullaney https://event.newschool.edu/langdancesp2025production @eugenelang @thenewschool @langdance @langcontemporarymusic @langtheater @langcesj

It's been a great pleasure working on this show! Featuring works by jaamil olawale kosoko, Stacy Spence, and Katy Pyle, along with student-created work from Juliette Mapp's Performance Research: Improvisation Through Theory and Practice course. Free and open to the public. https://event.newschool.edu/langdancesp2025production photo by @frankmullaney @eugenelang @thenewschool @langdance @langcontemporarymusic @langtheater @langcesj

Congratulations seniors on great performances this past weekend! Lang Arts Spring 2025 Capstone Production. Featuring capstone performance works created by graduating seniors in The Arts, including: Lucy Morton Alexis Roman @smileyacr Stefan Pallotta @stefanpallotta7 Keb Barshack @kebarshack Agatha Gibson @interiorscrol Tess Driscoll @tessdriscoll Ameris Carter @c8rt8r Presented by The Arts department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School Photos by @frankmullaney Lighting design by philiptrevino @eugenelang @thenewschool @neilgberg

TONIGHT AND SATURDAY! Lang Arts Senior Capstone Production 2025. 8pm. Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue. FREE and open to the public Work by: Keb Barshack @kebarshack , Ameris Carter @c8rt8r , Tess Driscoll @tessdriscoll Agatha Gibson @interiorscroll , Lucy Morton, Stefan Pallotta @stefanpallotta7 , Alexis Roman @smileyacr Lighting by philiptrevino Stage Management by Stacey-Jo Marine BE THERE OR BE SQUARE! https://event.newschool.edu/artscapstone2025 pictured: Agatha Gibson photo by: Frank Mullaney @frankmullaney @eugenelang @thenewschool @neilgberg

Lang Alum ELLA DAWN W-S's new work "Machine Room Door" is being presented this weekend at PAGEANT. CONGRATULATIONS ELLA! @dancews @eugenelang @thenewschool

Post-performance pic from the 2024 LANG DANCE FALL PRODUCTION - performance pics to come. pictured (l-r): Caitlyn van der Kaap, Elle Gallen, Aja Wells @eugenelang @aja.mariama