Ralph Lemon

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Image of "How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?" by Ralph Lemon. Photo courtesy of the artist.

I am trying to do the assignment

Claudia La Rocco

I remember being in the church that night. I had been writing about dance for some six years by then, but I still felt like an outsider. Is that true? I don’t know, it sounds good.…

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Training the anti-spectacular for Ralph Lemon's dance that disappears

Katherine Profeta

In fall 2010 choreographer and visual artist Ralph Lemon presented his first large-scale performance project in six years.…

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For Starters

Thomas J. Lax

The first work of Ralph Lemon’s I saw was How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere? in 2010. Moving between the death of a lover and the disappearing rituals of a Southern community formed in the aftermath of slavery, the work was at once personal and epic, idiosyncratic and laden with historical gestures.…

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