Fragments, Lists, and Lacunae @ New York Live Arts
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From Bushwick to (off-off) Broadway: How Sasha Velour marries her night club roots with modern theatricality
This is best drag: rooted by a simple movement vocabulary elevated with full design elements embodied by a queer figure in complete control of her material.
Making and Shaping Work as Artists and as a Cohort
Considerations of how to communicate certain ideas, evoke abstract affects, and share stories explicitly offer possibilities for shared dialogue.
I Just Unraveled Myself: Some Moments By/With/For Ash R.T. Yergens
The moment it becomes legible, it becomes something else.
The Chronic Pleasure of Creating Queer Spaces
She mourns and then she is fully present, looking right through you, dancing with abandon.
“Poor People’s TV Room” – Interview with Okwui Okpokwasili
Okwui Okpokwasili. Multiple Bessie Award-winning performer and maker. NYLA’s Stryker/Ranjelovic Resident Commissioned Artist. Mother. Human. Electromagnetic Force. She premieres her newest cross-disciplinary work “Poor People’s TV Room” this week.
My Dinner With Andrea: “I’ll Always See What I Saw When I [Saw] It”
I. The Urge To Participate I don’t often sit in the front row. Not because I’m afraid to (I actually quite like it), but because it’s such a deliberate choice, and I want to reserve it for special occasions. And as the lights went down
In Conversation with Elina Pirinen
Personal Symphonic Movement: an “on-stage autopsy of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7.”
Radouan Mriziga @ NYLA Live Ideas
Recognition of the dance-becoming-functional, of completing a circuit between both halves, is undoubtedly gratifying. We are irresistibly, maybe placidly, hypnotized by the all-seducing power of the circle, and this dually lulls with its familiarity while entrancing with timelessness.
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
Open Spectrum Critical Community Dialogues: Navigating Privilege
On Monday, December 7th, at 7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts will host the second of a series of Open Spectrum Community Dialogues, produced in association with MAPP International Productions. Culturebot, as critical partner, reached out to each participant to publish contextual essays both prior to and post dialogue, and we
An Aesthetic Meditation
How are we expanding the cultural diversity narrative through creative works?