Author: maura nguyễn donohue (she/they)
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Five Questions for Lar Lubovitch
Culturebot Contributor Maura Donohue has five questions for choreographer Lar Lubovitch.
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Five Questions for Yanira Castro
Culturebot contributor Maura Donohue has five questions for choreographer Yanira Castro
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Five Questions for Keely Garfield
Keely Garfield is in the midst of her latest “eruption” (as Claudia LaRocco calls it) at Duo Multicultural Arts Center (DMAC) this weekend. “Twin Pines” runs tonight and tomorrow at 8pm. For those wary of modern-day hallucinogens, Keely serves up a good, chemical-free, inducement of altered states. I remember doing a 10-day Vipassana meditation many…
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More than Five Questions for Patricia Hoffbauer
Culturebot Contributor Maura Donohue speaks with Patricia Hoffbauer who is at Danspace Project this week on a shared program with The Adventure, in the culminating event of Trajal Harrell’s Platform “certain difficulties, certain joy.”
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Five Questions for Brian Rogers & Ivy Baldwin
I asked Brian Rogers, the Artistic Director of The Chocolate Factory, and choreographer Ivy Baldwin, whose “Here Rests Peggy” opened there yesterday (and runs through next week) a few questions about their relationship to the venue. To Brian: What does an artist like Ivy offer the field? Ivy (in my view) is one of the…
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Five Questions for David Thomson
Culturebot contributor Maura Donohue sat down for five questions with David Thomson who appears in Ralph Lemon’s “How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere” at BAM this week.
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Maura’s End of September Round-Up
Culturebot contributor Maura Donohue gives a breathless round-up of a busy month of show-going, class-teaching and more.
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The Field’s ERPA Book Launch
The Field, at OpenPlans Penthouse, celebrates the publication of We Are No Longer Strangers, with a keynote address by national cultural activist, Arlene Goldbard, and panel discussion led by New York City choreographer, Maura Nguyen Donohue.
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Emily Berry & Body Blend at Dixon Place
Call it Destination Dixon Place. You’ve got to go. The newly opened space, in it’s inaugural season complete with new raised audience seating, includes state of the art equipment in its intimate downstairs theater, rehearsal space and a lounge. That’s right, a cozy conversation bar and you can bring that vodka spiked tonic into the…
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THROW at Chocolate Factory
Tuesday night I caught Ursula Eagly’s newest work-in-progress at Sarah Maxfield’s rich and useful Throw Series at the Chocolate Factory. Three choreographers show around 12 minutes of material and then ask the audience three specific questions. As Maxfield states, “it’s like a focus group for dance makers.”
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Ohio Theatre & 3-Legged Dog partnership
With all the recent talk of arts organizations facing eviction or negotiating potential mergers, here’s a bit of strategic partnering: 3-Legged Dog and The Ohio Theatre announced OHIO INTERRUPTED @ 3LD, the Ohio’s new 3-year residency at 3LD Art & Technology Center. Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of the Ohio Theatre says, “Losing our home of…
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Khmeropedies I & II @ BAC
In 2004, I facilitated a residency in Phnom Penh for Dance Theater Workshop’s Mekong Project. Several artists from the Mekong Delta region (Yunnan Province in China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand) gathered with a group of Asian Americans and Cambodians for 3 weeks. Based primarily out of Delphine Kassem and Mann Khosal’s Sovanna Phum shadow…