The World In Small Groups
Once you notice it, you can’t stop seeing it – the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?
All posts by Andy Horwitz
Worst Sex Ever and the WYSIWYG Talent Show, or Tales from Blogland
In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in person? The 4th in a series of essays about live events and small group experiences.
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.
From Storefront to Stadium
That time I saw Nirvana in 1991. Or, what happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
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
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.
Pride, Prejudice and Temptation
“Ain’t Too Proud” is more than just a jukebox musical.
A Choreography of Ideas
The critic or artist who wants to be trusted must be willing to be vulnerable and flawed; she must be willing to be wrong. She must be willing to risk. And it is no less terrifying for the critic to reveal herself than the dancer, choreographer, actor, artist, or musician.
Philosophy and Choreography Together in SF
Philosopher Alva Noë joins Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham at CounterPulse in SF
The NEA at 50 and The Death of the Public Good
“When are we artists and when are we everyone?” The answer, of course, is that artists are always everyone, we are members of a greater Public, and it is in acknowledging this that artists can create change.
Feeling The Momentum in Edinburgh
Andy’s report from Festivals Edinburgh and the Momentum Symposium.