How did the Original “Fenestrations” get started?
SK: Twelve years ago, I’d been in New York City only four years and was really just beginning my career. In fact, 1987 marks the first year that I had a solo show as a choreographer in New York. Elise Bernhardt, the artistic director and founder of Dancing in the Streets, gave me a very big break. She was putting together a huge event here in Grand Central Terminal called Grand Central Dances, with big stars of the dance world, Merce Cunningham, Lucinda Childs, Michael Moshen. Philippe Petit walked the high wire there. It was a big event. Elise knew me since we were both fellowship students at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and she had seen some photographs that I had made, which were composite photographs, most of them made in photo booth machines, that showed different images put together to make one entire image. And she knew me as a choreographer, although no one in New York really knew my name. She put those two together and decided to take a big chance on me. EGG: How did you come
