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.…
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.…
