Author: Darvejon A. Jones
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Kayla Farrish in Three Conversations
Kayla Farrish shared two new works, A Beast and DOCILE, at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s Black Box Theatre
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Dear Kayla Farrish, Burn it Down! At Least the Ashes Will Enrich the Earth
Imagine being told that what you have just experienced did not actually happen the way you experienced it, that it was actually just a collection of dissonant apparitions created by your own strained need to link unrelated events together.
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Prairie Dawn by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s Prairie Dawn premiered at Roulette in Brooklyn on November 14th, 2024. This is a Black cis man’s interpretation of their work.
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An Evening of Rhythm and Double Consciousness With Nimbus Dance
Currently mounted at Nimbus’s Firmament Gallery + Boutique is “Sometimes I Wander…” an exhibit displaying the photography of Life Magazine’s first Black photographer, Gordon Parks, and staff photographer at The Source, Chi Modu. The gallery, which regularly features local and Black art, showcases images of Blackness, Americana, and Community: Hip Hop.
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Radical Imagination, Aristotle Thinks Again!
The interdisciplinary work “Aristotle Thinks Again” is a thought-provoking masterpiece written by Chuck Mee, directed and choreographed by Dan Shafer, and co-created and choreographed by the immensely talented members of Great Jones Repertory.
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Kinding Sindaw Shines a Light on History
Complexity often frightens people from engaging with the critical context and history that informs our current realities. So, what you will read is [not] complex. It is current and quite easy to understand: Colonizing powers have a problem with Indigeneity.
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Storyletting: drawing forth ephemera from “the depths, not the sunken place”
This iteration of the work, presented as part of the Underground Uptown Festival’s Works and Process at the Guggenheim, was segmented to create discourse around the creative process. I can only describe my experience as profound.
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Fractals of Prometheus Ignites
The flower we touch as children in awe burns. The only chide needed to withdraw. With undeniable power to flaw, fire will still flicker and die. For it lives, as […]
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Shadowland at La MaMa Moves
Confluence. Storage. Breach. Darvejon A. Jones on Kari Hoaas’s “Shadowland” at La MaMa Moves
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“Forced Beauty” by T.I.T.S. at La MaMa Moves
Hunter College Dance MFA Darvejon Jones writes about a program at the La MaMa Moves 2023 Festival.