American Ghoul at Suite/SPACE 2022
Something was exhumed on the stage that night— what it was still haunts me.
Ontroerend Goed’s “Are we not drawn onward…” at Under the Radar 2023
Heading into BAM’s Fishman Space for Ontroerend Goed, part of the Public’s 2023 Under the Radar Festival, felt like finally getting to a long-delayed date. I’d been looking forward to catching the Belgian company since I first missed them with their career-making The Smile Off
Between Dreaming and Real in DES MOINES
…embodies what I’ll describe as a challengingly lateral Death-drive dramaturgy…
Performing Precarity: Young Boy Dancing Group at Pageant
The discomfort of navigating precarity is not merely a state of being, but more truthfully, a continuous fact of life.
the single most remarkable work of 2022
600 Highwaymen’s “A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly” is one of 2022’s most remarkable works of theater.
“Dr. G’s Bingo Extravaganza” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Sifting through that experience over time we keep finding ourselves holding out our hands, cupped, like we had caught a firefly. It’s the gesture that says we too received a gift.
Sha Creative Outlet: XS at The Center at West Park
Like a giant notebook portfolio or a crumpled map in the glove box of a borrowed car, the paper endures, holds the changes, shows the history of Sha and Sarah’s togetherness— and our witnessing of that togetherness.
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.
Perkins & Borinsky | THE GOLD ROOM
Rehearsing it felt like having conversations with a ghost. Jacob from 4 years ago still has something to say to Jacob now. Jacob will always be becoming Jacob.
Queer Joy on the Beach
Waves crashed on the sand and ambient beats wafted from the DJ tent. Rainbow flags marked a sacred circle on the beach: beyond the luxurious summer homes and expensive restaurants, a brave queer oasis for experimental art emerged.
PAGEANT Presents: Duet Night
For us, the dancers translate a shared archive into movement.
Learning With and From Baltic artists in the Shadow of the War on Ukraine
I hope Putin understands “Fuck War” in not only Russian, but Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian as well.