Author: maura nguyễn donohue (she/they)
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Rip It Open: “Perforations Festival” is coming back to NYC
Maura and Eugene de Poogene yelled over really loud music with Croatian curator and producer Zvonimir Dobrovic about his “Perforations Festival” – opening Friday.
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Together in the Fierce Tender – notes from October ’17
Maura covers The Bessies, MR AoCC Studies Project, AmericanAF, Jasmine Hearn & Mariana Valencia, and Cynthia Oliver’s world premiere of “Virago-Man Dem”
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Refusing to Bow Down: Dorothée Munyaneza speaks about “Unwanted”
Maura interviews Dorothée Munyaneza. Her “Unwanted” has its New York premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center TONIGHT (September 21-22). Her “Samedi Détente” at Under the Radar Festival in early 2016 ripped open the wounds of the genocide in Rwanda. With “Unwanted,” she explores the physical and mental repercussions of rape used as an instrument of war.
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Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance returns home to Brooklyn
Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance (Cumbe) returns to Brooklyn with a new home at RestorationART. Maura interviews Jimena Martinez, Cumbe’s Executive Director.
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Maria Bauman talks about “dying and dying and dying”
Maura talks to Maria about her upcoming premiere of “dying and dying and dying” at Gibney Dance Center this week.
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’round the bend: Amy Surratt’s FIRST AND LAST (show)
An effective seduction, there is enough truth in the tall tales to keep us believing and bound to the ride.
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Remake The World: La MaMa Moves!
In these perilous, challenging and unpredictable times in our country and in the world, we can look to the performing arts for some clues as to how we might respond […]
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Swimming in a Sea of Plastic: “Tides Project: Drowning Planet/Disposable Bodies” at La MaMa Moves
George Emilio Sanchez offers a rumination on Culturebot’s Maura Donohue’s recent work at La MaMa
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“You are you even before you…” – Will Rawls & Claudia Rankine at Bard College
Wily, genre-busting Will Rawls collaborates with poetic genius, Claudia Rankine, for their premire of “What Remains” at The Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College.
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“Poor People’s TV Room” – Interview with Okwui Okpokwasili
Okwui Okpokwasili. Multiple Bessie Award-winning performer and maker. NYLA’s Stryker/Ranjelovic Resident Commissioned Artist. Mother. Human. Electromagnetic Force. She premieres her newest cross-disciplinary work “Poor People’s TV Room” this week.
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Mobilizing Bodies: Dance & Disability at 92Y, Petronio at The Joyce, & Work Up 3.1 at Gibney
3 shows from this past week: Edisa Weeks curates at 92nd St. Y Fridays at Noon, Stephen Petronio’s 3rd season of Bloodlines, and Gibney’s emerging artist program
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Downtown Icons, Non-Consenual Relationships with Ghosts, & Passages
Someday, if the Earth survives this oligarchy’s drive to suck the life out of her and us, historians, archivists, and survivors will share stories of the work being made in “this era.” 1 Panel & 2 shows.