From Black Box to Broadway
Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!” in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of “Black Box to Broadway”. Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
Category Archives: Ideas
Satori in a Storefront
That time I saw Kristen Kosmas in 1992 and it blew my mind. The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.
The Theater(s)We Need Now
Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what life is like, I know everybody’s busy so
Congregation of Survival – Lost and Found Platform continues
How will we ever go back after the planting that guest curator Eva Yaa Asentawaa sowed during last week’s “the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds?”
Please Fuck Off Jérôme Bel or A 50 Year Old French White Man Makes An All Bodies Matter Dance and I Hate It
Yes! A literal PARADE of surface level DIVERSITY.
Upcoming Community of Practice Sessions
Join us for Community of Practice Season 2: January 23, February 20, March 19
Rhythm Field: The Dance of Molissa Fenley
Book excerpt: The Sovereign Soloist – States of Exceptional Labor and “State of Darkness” by Richard Move
Philosophy and Choreography Together in SF
Philosopher Alva Noë joins Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham at CounterPulse in SF
Criticism for Theatre’s Sake
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 20 (pp. 261 – 264) of Mark Fisher’s book How To Write About Theatre, published by Bloomsbury and released in paperback in August, 2015. In any discussion about theatre and criticism, there’s usually one wag who stands up
A Leader-Full Movement: Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues at New York Live Arts
Tara Sheena chats with Jaamil Kosoko about Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues at New York Live Arts.
Modern Dance Is Not A Pyramid Scheme: Tere O’ Connor Responds
Culturebot on DanceUSA’s e-journal article “Is American Modern Dance a Pyramid Scheme?” Part I
Theatre Shop Talk Abounds at “Crisis to Creation: A Town Hall on the Future of NYC Performing Arts”
“Theatre is about bringing people together. It’s not easy, it’s not cheap, and it takes a lot of work.”