Author: Theo Armstrong
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A Family Affair: Mare Nostrum Elements at the Tank for IHRAF 2025
Theo Armstrong on new works by A Heather Dutton/Middle Child Dance Theatre, Emily Tarrier + Emory Ferra Campbell, and Ke’ron J. Wilson
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the present moment where temporalities converge
Leaving the bardo calls for transformation. The body becomes a page, a site for inscription, a blank slate. The silence echoes.
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Who’s Your Leader? Kelly Bartnik on The Death of Rasputin and Why Everything Might Be a Cult
Spring is in the air and, amidst the horrors, new productions abound! I caught up with Kelly Bartnik of Artemis is Burning to discuss upcoming previews for The Death of […]
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“The truth is the truth is truth is the…” A dance-theater retelling of the lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
As it turns out, Stein and Toklas did many things, some of them frightening and problematic, some of them strenuous and beautiful—all of them a legacy worth digging into. Chametzky was wise to put this work onstage in 2025, as we face a resurgence of fascism and question our own moral codes in relation to…
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A Very Serious Unserious Dance and Some Rigorous Instructions for (Queer) Joy?
Theo Armstrong describes some cool moves and asks Noa Rui-Piin Weiss and Miranda Brown some silly yet probing questions after seeing !!simon says~~!:));)$$ Presented as part of the Out-FRONT! Festival […]
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American Ghoul at Suite/SPACE 2022
Something was exhumed on the stage that night— what it was still haunts me.
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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.
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Acheron: Brutal and Brilliant at New Ohio
Two figures approach each other. They could be brothers, countrymen, mortal enemies. In a world obsessed with borders, they are fundamentally different and dangerously similar.
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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.
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Hyperfantasia at The Brick Theater
Question everything. Laugh often. And be proud as peacocks, amoebas and hominids—you’re alive, and it’s June!
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Main Character Syndrome
If performance is an intersection between the realness of live embodiment and the fantastical suspension of reality, then this is true performance.
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“P I N E” by m i c c a @ Beach 81st, Far Rockaway
I put my arms around the dry branches, sunk my face between the needles. I remembered holding you like this before you left. I remembered when we did this without thinking.