Author: Hilary Tanabe
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Feeling Sound
Two pieces that delve into ideas surrounding worship and identity: Angie Pittman’s “Came Up in a Lonely Castle” and Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDProjectNYC’s “Process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock.”
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Entering the Fifth Dimension: Yanira Castro’s STAGE
Its in-betweenness, like the liminal space of “not me…not not me,” grants us the ability to be in two places at once.
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The Chronic Pleasure of Creating Queer Spaces
She mourns and then she is fully present, looking right through you, dancing with abandon.
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Feeling Grief, Feeling Female, Feeling Un-American
A never-ending stream of hypnotic ghosts.
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Dancing with Ghosts: Trajal Harrell’s Becoming/Chanelling/Voguing Kazuo Ohno/Tatsumi Hijikata/Antonia Merce
A new way of being, a new world emerges, one of infinite possibility, as the current one is upended.
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Identity politics and dance in the age of Trump: Or how to become a “body without organs” and still acknowledge some borders
In October, I saw two very different works by the French choreographer Jérôme Bel: Jérôme Bel at The Kitchen and Artist’s Choice: Jérôme Bel/ MoMA Dance Company at MoMA. The […]
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Negotiations of Self
These ugly feelings: disgust, animatedness, mourning, are radical in their fugitivity.
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My Sister’s Skin: Nadia Tykulsker and Jennifer Harge, performing race and death in America
I entered Standard Toykraft, a theater space in a Williamsburg loft where Nadia Tykulsker both crafted and presented Saw You Yesterday, and my breath was immediately stifled by an oppressive […]