What Happens When Elevator Repair Service Stages a Play?
How do you deconstruct a deconstruction?
All posts by Dan O'Neil
Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen: Is That Voice Still Mine?
There is a dizzying effect to the realization / acknowledgement of one’s cringe-worthy actions as white person to date, and Aloha Aloha gives that kaleidoscopic wheel quite the healthy spin.
The Lucky Ones, Cracked Open at The Connelly
there’s never enough time and we’re always reaching back, trying to remember what it felt like to crack wide open for the first time.
The Wordy Worlds of Mac Wellman
The evening resembles what one might imagine how a Moth Storytelling Hour might play out if it were held at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Disruptive Cuteness
Responding to CUTE ACTIVIST at the Bushwick Starr: “Does this play want me to ‘like’ it or to ‘crying face’ it?”
Geoff Sobelle’s House Party – ‘HOME’ at BAM
Sobelle’s work relies heavily on what one might describe as “sleight-of-staging,” which I’ll posit here is a cross between what a magician does with objects (cards and the like) and what a director does with design and blocking.
Wrestling with the formula for “Dance Theater” via Big Dance Theater’s 17c
Parson slowly and deftly reverses the lens, edging away from the endlessly verbal Sam and leaving us with only Bess.
Bearing Witness To A Dragon-Slayer In The Body Of A Waif: Heather Christian’s ANIMAL WISDOM
She exists, she conjures, she illuminates through whisper and scream.
Should We All Move To Lexington? An Interview with Stephanie Troyak
Dan O’Neil interviews Tantztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch dancer Stephanie Troyak, and asks the question: “Can we make this?”
In Which A Booking Cancellation At The New Ohio Creates Space For Radical Community Recalibration: #AmericanAF
To attend is to remind yourself how much we miss by relying on established institutions to deliver us our culture, pre-curated and mixed just so, on whatever silver platter they might have recently polished.
How Do You Feel?
In THE POWER OF EMOTION: THE APARTMENT, the notion of emotion as a perfomative element provides the foundation for a wider exploration on how we not only watch, but hear and interpret emotion.
Is Pop Music Universal? KPOP Turns Our Gaze Inward
To what degree must our celebrities look, sound, and live lives enough like ours in order for us to fetishize becoming them?