I keep seeing Lauren Bakst’s performance work Private Collection: in the gallery space of a Bushwick apartment complex, the sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church, a downtown loft on Broadway. It seems to me that Bakst is always working: as a teacher of choreography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she also makes work with students and curates a lecture series; as an editor at Movement Research Performance Journal; as the recipient of many residencies, including one she currently holds in NYC at The Kitchen called Dance and Process. I am drawn to the flow of her work life as a snapshot of the young artist— prolific and multidisciplinary—and as a mirror of my own artistic coming-of-age, boundless with the desire to experiment. Read More