Author: Immanuel J
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The Wind in Alethea Pace’s BETWEEN WAVE AND WATER: A Review and Reflection.
For a story honoring the history within the water, I am struck by the wind. It’s 12:30 pm on a breezy Saturday afternoon in the Bronx. The days leading up to between wave and water are a swell of persistent heavy rainfall that stings of glaciers. Today, though, it feels as if the Bronx is…
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In GOD ARE YOU THERE? MAYBE IT’S ME. The Black Performer Becomes Sisyphus
My performance practice has been affectionately described by a mentor as sisyphean–cyclical, futile, pointless and yet entirely necessary. Necessary for what-and-whom? I ask. As punishment for his crimes, Sisyphus was banished to the never ending task of rolling a boulder up a hill which inevitably crashes down. His labor is his punishment. What is it…
