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The Stephen Petronio Company is about to officially enter middle age, and the 40th-anniversary celebrations for the contemporary troupe—including a world premiere at NYU Skirball this month—will come alongside some major organizational changes. Most significant among them: the likely closure of the idyllic Petronio Residency Center, located a few hours north of New York City amongst the Catskill Mountains and designed as an early-stage choreographic development center for dance artists.

This summer, the Petronio Residency Center at Crow’s Nest welcomes its first three artists in residence: Nora Chipaumire, Will Rawls and Kathy Westwater. The center, located in the Catskill Mountains, about two and a half hours north of New York City, is idyllic: The 2,500-square-foot studio has radiant floor-heat and a sprung floor, and the […]

For the past 3 years, choreographer Stephen Petronio has been reviving groundbreaking works of postmodern dance through his BLOODLINES project. This season, although his company will be performing a work by Merce Cunningham, his own choreography moves in a more luxurious direction. We stepped into the studio with Petronio and his dancers where they were […]

Wendy Perron and Stephen Petronio, of Stephen Petronio Company, discuss his upcoming season at the Joyce Theater in New York City.

The Joyce Theater, NYC March 6–11, 2012 The most memorable line in Stephen Petronio’s Intravenous Lecture occurs at the beginning, when he proclaims, deadpan: “I am the bastard child of Steve Paxton and Trisha Brown.” In his reinterpretation of Paxton’s 1970 piece, Petronio delivered a maudlin and dated disquisition on gay rights and censorship while […]

Stephen Petronio’s limb-flinging, inside-out choreography can take your breath away. In the early 1990s, his men sometimes wore corsets and his women drove through space like cannonballs, giving his work an androgynous edge. Later works range from the strange, bracing beauty of Lareigne (1995), to the desperate, existential chic of his solo Broken Man (2002). […]

Stephen Petronio Company Joyce Theater, NYC April 5–10, 2011 Reviewed by Susan Yung Photo: Barrington Hinds and Natalie Mackessy in Underland. Photo by Julie Lemberger, Courtesy Petronio Company.   Stephen Petronio’s Underland contains examples of the most exhilarating elements of his work, while exposing some of the challenges he faces when tracing a narrative. Created […]

Stephen Petronio Company The Joyce Theater, NYC April 28–May 3, 2009 Reviewed by Christopher Atamian Davalois Fearon, Mandy Kirschner, and Shila Tirabassi in I Drink the Air Before Me. Photo by Steven Schreiber, courtesy SPC. “I won’t be your man at all if I can’t be your salty dog,” Stephen Petronio mumbles at the beginning […]