Author: maura nguyễn donohue (she/they)
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Everything is there where you got nothing left. Dan Safer at La MaMa Moves, finally.
Dan Safer is the devil you’ve been dying to dance with and Ae Andrea’s enviable lines and swag make them an optimal fiend friend for that card.
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floating a queer celestial in Ni’Ja Whitson’s “Oba Qween Baba King Baba”
Ni’Ja Whitson queers divine kingdoms with cosmological meetings amidst a swirl of lineage, legacies and streaming star scapes. Salve.
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The world according to Nicky: “now my hand is ready for my heart” at La MaMa
After over a decade hiatus in making work, with “now my hand is ready for my heart” downtown icon, Nicky Paraiso gushes forth while looking back on several lived lives in Nickyworld.
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John Gutierrez’s view from Miguel Gutierrez’s “This Bridge Called My Ass”
John Gutierrez writes from inside “This Bridge Called My Ass” from Miguel Gutierrez
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to go is to be going, but not to get there – Mina Nishimura & Julian Barnett Double Plus
Here, thoughts are freed from linearity or reasonable binds. There, processing systems allow the universe to expand and retract as an infinite sponge. Where bodies transmute from human familiars to alien exotica.
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La MaMa Moves at 13
The La MaMa Moves Festival, now in its 13th season, opens Thursday May 10. Curator Nicky Paraiso and artists Ellen Fisher, Jonathan Gonzalez, Adham Hafez and Ni’Ja Whitson recently shared some thoughts about their relationship to the festival.
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Shapeshifters: Black Queer Land(ing) at Gibney Dance
mayfield brooks, jumatatu m. poe, and the I Moving Lab are part of aa three-week series conceived and curated by Marýa Wethers at Gibney Dance highlighted “intersections and crossroads among Blackness, queerness, and Indigeneity.”
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in the waking: Tommy DeFrantz (American Realness) & David Thomson (COIL)
“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality… Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction.” – Biko Maura ruminates on white privilege and the mythology of the neutral body.
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Accomplices in the Realness: Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire & NIC Kay
The age of the ally is over, let’s be accomplices. Maura on Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire and NIC Kay at American Realness 2018.
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Getting Real #1: Michelle Ellsworth’s “The Rehearsal Artist” for American Realness
Michelle Ellsworth brings a real head trip to American Realness 2018.
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In the sublime of Kota Yamazaki’s “Darkness Odyssey Part 2: I or Hallucination”
I would have this piece on an endless loop that I might wander through like a cherry blossom viewing “hanami” stroll, or soak in like a yuzu-scented hinoki bath in the woods. Joanna Kotze and Mina Nishimura share thoughts from inside their fractal realm.
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in spite of safety and comfort: Perforations Festival round up
Perforations Festival brings us into direct responsibility for the execution of artistic ideas and challenges the passive stasis of sideline observation in a mostly successful series of performances that ripped apart conventional norms.