Tag: mdonohue

  • Interview with Carla Peterson

    CBOT contributor Maura Donohue sits down to speak with DTW’s Carla Peterson about the future

  • Mayumana at The New Victory

    Choreographer Yanira Castro was recently asking me where she might take her son as he ages into a potential viewer of live performance.  The New Victory Theater came up immediately as a venue that consistently brings quality work to town from elsewhere; many of the programs are international groups (though Mabou Mines will be there…

  • Five Questions for Julian Barnett

    Choreographer Julian Barnett’s Super Natural is at DNA thru Sunday afternoon.  Jeremy mentions the show in this week’s roundup. You’ve mentioned that a lot of artists seem stuck or tied to reliving Rainier’s No Manifesto; that many of today’s American artists are struggling with a rejection of form. How does this relate to your work…

  • Five Questions for Lar Lubovitch

    Culturebot Contributor Maura Donohue has five questions for choreographer Lar Lubovitch.

  • Five Questions for Yanira Castro

    Five Questions for Yanira Castro

    Culturebot contributor Maura Donohue has five questions for choreographer Yanira Castro

  • Five Questions for Keely Garfield

    Five Questions for Keely Garfield

    Keely Garfield is in the midst of her latest “eruption” (as Claudia LaRocco calls it) at Duo Multicultural Arts Center (DMAC) this weekend. “Twin Pines” runs tonight and tomorrow at 8pm. For those wary of modern-day hallucinogens, Keely serves up a good, chemical-free, inducement of altered states. I remember doing a 10-day Vipassana meditation many…

  • More than Five Questions for Patricia Hoffbauer

    More than Five Questions for Patricia Hoffbauer

    Culturebot Contributor Maura Donohue speaks with Patricia Hoffbauer who is at Danspace Project this week on a shared program with The Adventure, in the culminating event of Trajal Harrell’s Platform “certain difficulties, certain joy.”

  • Five Questions for Brian Rogers & Ivy Baldwin

    Five Questions for Brian Rogers & Ivy Baldwin

    I asked Brian Rogers, the Artistic Director of The Chocolate Factory, and choreographer Ivy Baldwin, whose “Here Rests Peggy” opened there yesterday (and runs through next week) a few questions about their relationship to the venue. To Brian: What does an artist like Ivy offer the field? Ivy (in my view) is one of the…

  • Five Questions for David Thomson

    Five Questions for David Thomson

    Culturebot contributor Maura Donohue sat down for five questions with David Thomson who appears in Ralph Lemon’s “How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere” at BAM this week.

  • Khmeropedies I & II @ BAC

    In 2004, I facilitated a residency in Phnom Penh for Dance Theater Workshop’s Mekong Project.  Several artists from the Mekong Delta region (Yunnan Province in China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand) gathered with a group of Asian Americans and Cambodians for 3 weeks.  Based primarily out of Delphine Kassem and Mann Khosal’s Sovanna Phum shadow…

  • NY International @ LaMama Moves

    The final program for this year’s Dance Festival at La Mama was appropriately a mixed bill of artists hailing from far flung points of origin.  As I mentioned in my post about the Hula program I saw in the larger Ellen Stewart Theatre at The Annex just before the New York International program in the…

  • The Power of Hula @ La Mama Moves

    Hula is the soul of Hawaii expressed through dance, reflecting central ideas and historic or mythic events in tales told through hand gestures, chants and/or songs.  Though once a form of worship, it has survived both the Protestant missionaries who banned it in 1800s and Hollywood’s ridiculous bastardization, and remains a rich, vibrant tradition. After…