St. Denis, who retired briefly from public performance, founded the Society of Spiritual Arts and devoted much of the rest of her life to promoting the use of dance in religion.
American Realness is an annual festival of new dance and contemporary performance, founded in 2010 by Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor, who curates and produces it to this day.
That part was simple enough: their employer, Great Performances, was founded in 1979 as a company where artists could get flexible part-time work that paid reasonably well.
In 2009, the Knitting Factory, an edgy downtown performance space founded in 1987, was forced to move to a smaller and less expensive space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
This was Brick x Brick, a public-art-performance group founded by Sarah Sandman and Andrea Lauer, which had teamed up with the Extraordinary Rendition Band, from Providence, Rhode Island.
Brave New Worlds is a performance company founded in 2014 by Valentina Ceschi, Kate Lane and Guoda Jaruseviciute, and based in London and Vilnius, Lithuania.
I showed her my humble little sketches and talked about my references for the piece and coincidentally we landed on the topic of BUTOH, the Japanese performance art founded by Kazuo Ohno over half a century ago.
It shuttered for good at the beginning of the year after a month of parties celebrating their decade-long stretch with performances from founding resident DJ Erick Morillo, Puff Daddy, and Dirty South.
In 1992 he began an ongoing collaboration involving multimedia performances with Handspring Puppet Theatre (founded 1981) in Cape Town.
It was in the spirit of those early Domus performances that Wurman founded the Church of Beethoven.
