Category: Live Art
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The National Gallery’s “Homecoming” and a Love Letter Between the Lines
Let us, then, be the dreamers of the empty space between repetitions that sows fertile soil for difference and kinship.
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Hyperfantasia at The Brick Theater
Question everything. Laugh often. And be proud as peacocks, amoebas and hominids—you’re alive, and it’s June!
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Main Character Syndrome
If performance is an intersection between the realness of live embodiment and the fantastical suspension of reality, then this is true performance.
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“P I N E” by m i c c a @ Beach 81st, Far Rockaway
I put my arms around the dry branches, sunk my face between the needles. I remembered holding you like this before you left. I remembered when we did this without thinking.
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Sophia Cleary’s “One & Only” at The Kitchen
“I aim to be a balance between a healer, a dictator, and an anarchist” – Sophia Cleary
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What Do You Miss? Reflections on KAREN, I SAID
Eliza Bent is about as close to a recognizable brand as you can get in downtown theater land (I say this in a good way) – she has a specific and winning skewed sensibility and a propensity for characters, which I assumed would not be overly diminished by the Zoom platform.
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Fragments, Lists, and Lacunae @ New York Live Arts
No one goes into the archive unless they have a hole to fill. Archives are the remedy to forgetful minds, faulty sources, and even death itself. They promise concrete answers and facts.
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7 Names: Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders @ BAC
7 Names: Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders X Benedict Nguyen
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DEVOTION DEVOTION at the Exponential Festival: Process Conversation with Lydia Mokdessi
This body unfurls in slow motion, leaving ample space for labels, classifications, and archetypes to land upon her and vanish.
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Martine Gutierrez’s CIRCLE at Performance Space New York
I start to explain something about artistic agency over visual archives of original work but all that comes out is I guess we’re all in trouble.
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Ann Liv Young’s Home Theater
Want to take out your phone and text? Please, I dare you, and I hope I’m there to see what happens. Maybe Young will want to take a selfie, or share your photos, or throw your phone out the window. Anything could happen.
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Opening space for the inexplicable: loveconductors and ghoul|take III
The work is the group; the group is the work. It is an antidote to work that devalues the human. The individual is decentralized, but not devalued.