Looking to a “Beautiful Future” with Rita Kalnejais
I’m interested in setting myself as big a challenge as I can when I’m writing, saying to myself, “How can I love you?”
Preview: “Departure Study of Mother/land Fabric” presented by The Exponential Festival, filmed at The Brick Theater
What is the body if not your closest, most concrete tie to blood lineage? It’s a mirror, a translation, a vessel for parallels and repetition across oceans and decades.
Sophia Cleary’s “One & Only” at The Kitchen
“I aim to be a balance between a healer, a dictator, and an anarchist” – Sophia Cleary
Creative Outlet: A Conversation with Shannon Yu
Paper. A tongue? A face? Hands, elbows, emerging body parts. Two bodies. Questions. Who are they to each other? Will they ever come out from behind the semi-translucent wall? Conceal and reveal. Discovery. Peekaboo, peep show, peeling back wrapping paper; pulling the curtain open in a stranger’s house to see a familiar smile.
The Many Soundscapes of PLEASURE MACHINE
Some would argue that there is nothing wrong with money from those who have too much and using it to support yourself and your community— a creative Robin Hood of sorts. But is taking advantage of a convenient situation the same as being complicit?
Cosmic Heart: a Conversation with Daniel Alexander Jones
I don’t think it’s our job to banish the darkness. But I think it’s our job to understand that the light locates us in this womb. It locates us in this infinite and ever expanding universe. And it gives us an opportunity to be present.
On Permission
I feel tension between practice and permission. I relish in the freedom and the challenge to make what I can make with the time and resources that I already have at my disposal.
Once Upon a Time – a way to play with SUPERSTITIONS
SUPERSTITIONS inhabits a world that relies on the use of language, strangeness, incongruities that are made congruous at unexpected times throughout.
PREPAREDNESS: An HR Session Runs Amuck
In PREPAREDNESS, a mandatory HR session threatens the survival of a college theater department.
PUFFY HAIR: A Fabulously Feral Feminist Fantasia… with Farts
Not a “solo show” but also not not a solo show
Movement Without Borders at Judson Church
A catalyst, a deep breath together, a gathering.
The Return to ‘Sustained Energetic Collisions’ …in Red Hook: Ben Gassman’s BOTTE DI FERRO
Gassman is the real article, the authentic listener, who has heard in the city’s woke and hip aspirations, its angry and tired lives, and its ever-evolving demography the real meaning of ordinary anguish.