Andrew Horwitz is a critic, curator and cultural producer. He is the founder of the website Culturebot.org and a 2014 recipient of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He has worked in NYC as the Director of Public Programs for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Producer at Performance Space 122 and co-curator of the PRELUDE Festival at the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at the Graduate Center at CUNY. His writing has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Art Practical, The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 and Americans for the Arts’ ARTSBlog. Most recently he was a lecturer on the theory and practice of cultural production at the University of California San Diego. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
That strand of conceptualism in contemporary choreography that seeks to remove the body from the consideration of dance, when favoured by elite American arts programmers, curators and institutions, has real consequences.
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