Some Thoughts, Possibly Related, On Time, Criticism, and the Nature of Consciousness

This is a writing workshop. It is open to anyone who wants to play with words, to see what they can do, and how. But it is made with dance-artists in mind.

How do words live in time and space, whether on the stage, the page or in the mind? Critical writing, creative writing, performance texts… are they really such different creatures? Does a dancer have a particular way of approaching language? What about a writer who spends so much of her/his time watching dancers? So many questions.

The title of this workshop comes from a lecture I gave last year, a lecture which thought it was a poem (or maybe it’s the other way around). I was going to replace “criticism” with “art.” But then I thought, what’s the difference, really?



Claudia La Rocco
Claudia La Rocco is the founder of thePerformanceClub.org, which won a 2011 Arts Writers Grant. She writes about performance for the New York Times, is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts’ graduate programme in Art Criticism and Writing, and has taught and lectured at a variety of universities, festivals and institutes. She is a member of the Off The Park poetry press, where she is currently editing an anthology of poems by painters. Her writing has appeared in such outlets and publications as Artforum, failbetter.com, Slate, WNYC New York Public Radio and the anthology "Viva la Difference: Poetry Inspired by the Painting of Peter Saul." She lives in Brooklyn.