Mothership of a Fleet of Festivals: My First Under the Radar
Festival profile: Under the Radar, New York
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Choreographing the unexpected in LEIMAY’s borders
Breathe. Breathe. And try to hold the space.
IN>TIME Performance Festival, Taking Up Residence in Chicago
The IN>TIME Performance Festival continues through March 2nd at various venues throughout Chicago, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Links Hall, 6018 North, and Sector 2337. Full details can be found at in-time-performance.org.
The New Ecstatic 2.0 forced me to be and know human
Hands as knife, like a dictator’s arm, the brute use of force; hands as cups, open to receiving or a tool for sustaining…
Nice Fish If You Can Catch It
Nice Fish, by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, currently playing at St. Ann’s Warehouse through March 27th, takes this activity that most of us have never engaged in and makes it – at least for me – totally, nostalgically, tragically familiar.
I’LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN at The Bushwick Starr
‘I’ll Never Love Again’ premieres at The Bushwick Starr this week. The show, which is described as “part concert and part archaeological dig about first love, first heartbreak, and how those formative teenage experiences haunt the rest of our lives,” was created using excerpts from Barron’s actual teenage diary, and is performed by a “choir of downtown’s finest.”
Due to Events: Existential Squirreliness
Human Head Performance Group’s Due to Events, a curious collection of play pieces that have been constructed by Jean Ann Douglass and Eric John Meyer into a performance that runs through February 27th at The Brick, embraces a squirrely sense of logic that creates an
A Response to Versailles 2016 Via a Joke About a Polar Bear
Dan O’Neil reimagines a joke he once heard to the tune of VERSAILLES 2016, a ‘play within a party’ by This is Not a Theatre Company
Open Spectrum – February 13 at New York Live Arts
On Monday night, New York Live Arts kicked off the 2016 Live Ideas festival, MENA/Future, which is devoted to a generation of artists whose creative networks across socio-political divides reveal a diverse and future-oriented vision for the Middle East North African region. I was in
dead, disappears – Heather Kravas
Now this, let’s look at this. Look closely. Now forget that, what about this?
Talking to the left of the pantry and under the sugar shack: an interview with Kristine Haruna Lee
harunalee, the wildly imaginative performance ensemble helmed by Kristine Haruna Lee, is transforming The Club at La Mama into a memory palace. The piece is said to be “a little bit cosmos and a little bit party.” Wanting to know a little bit more, Culturebot
On the Art of the Immersive, or Is This Even Theater?
Dan O’Neil reflects on immersive theater making via a response to THE GRAND PARADISE