WENDY PERRON

Sometimes, when a dance performance takes hold of me, I have such a visceral reaction that I feel like I’m on high alert the whole time.

One of the fascinating dancer/choreographers of mid-20th-century American modern dance, Paul Sanasardo died on July 23 at the age of 97.

When Aaron Mattocks, producer of the Fisher Center at Bard College, asked me to write the program essay for Lucinda Childs at Bard this summer, I was delighted.

In the 1960s, Paul Sanasardo’s technique classes were the most rigorous modern dance classes in New York City.

A few years ago, as editor at large for Dance Magazine, I was asked to produce short video previews of exciting dance happening in the NYC area.

The legendary 1966 series 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering involved nine interdisciplinary artists.

Every year, I compile a list of the groovy dance books published that year.

Dance Was Everywhere: The Uncredited Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance This essay of mine was published in Dance Index, Volume 14, Number 1, Summer of 2023.

I wrote this preview of the PBS documentary “Free to Dance” for the New York Times, which published it on June 17, 2001.

As a young dancer with recurring back spasms, I sought relief with various physical therapies.