Pastoral Paradox
A response to “Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor” at the 2017 BAM Next Wave Festival
Yearly Archives: 2017
The First, Second, and Third Premiere of HANJO at Japan Society
It’s difficult to write about the show you love.
In the sublime of Kota Yamazaki’s “Darkness Odyssey Part 2: I or Hallucination”
I would have this piece on an endless loop that I might wander through like a cherry blossom viewing “hanami” stroll, or soak in like a yuzu-scented hinoki bath in the woods. Joanna Kotze and Mina Nishimura share thoughts from inside their fractal realm.
Together Alone
Solo storytellers must boldly jump off their high dives and fall into their public swimming pools.
Getting Lost in the Psychic Underground
The skilled player navigates the constraints of the game with the cards they are dealt—in the same way that we all navigate our privileges and oppression in daily life.
William Burke and the Never Ending Celebration of Failure
The failure Burke examines comes from (intentional) overuse, dereliction, or poor design, not the result of freewheeling adventure or calculated risk-taking.
Beneath the Tides of Sleep
I left ‘Sleep’ as if I was waking from a dream—confident that what I had just experienced was meaningful, but entirely unclear as to why.
Geoff Sobelle’s House Party – ‘HOME’ at BAM
Sobelle’s work relies heavily on what one might describe as “sleight-of-staging,” which I’ll posit here is a cross between what a magician does with objects (cards and the like) and what a director does with design and blocking.
You Having Everything Means Nothing To Me
Between Walled Rooms is a series of freeform responses to live performance works by female identifying and gender nonconforming choreographers, initiated by Tara Sheena. This work is a response to Hadar Ahuvia’s “Everything you have is yours?”.
5 Questions with Hannah Wasileski
Five Questions: Sam Schanwald with Hannah Wasileski, the projections designer from SLEEP
A Choreography of Ideas
The critic or artist who wants to be trusted must be willing to be vulnerable and flawed; she must be willing to be wrong. She must be willing to risk. And it is no less terrifying for the critic to reveal herself than the dancer, choreographer, actor, artist, or musician.
Five Questions with slowdanger
slowdanger is a performance duo from Pittsburgh. They are Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight, who speak their minds both alone and together. We talk about the queerness of being a multidisciplinary artist and the influence of technology on dance work, among much more. Their collaboration