Author: maura nguyễn donohue (she/they)
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Get Closer: thoughts on activating the audience in live performance
Recent choreographic works by Dean Moss and Yanira Castro invite an examination of interactivity in contemporary performance
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“Misters and Sisters” DanceNow Joe’s Pub
Last night, David Parker/The Bang Group provided ample proof for musical comedy as an avenue for political action (or at least personal salvation) in an “autobiographical fiction” of his 20 year collaboration with Jeffrey Kazin and their shared “sissy boy” childhoods. Misters and Sisters (continuing tonight and tomorrow at Joe’s Pub at 7pm) as part…
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Progressive Performance Festival: Vermont this weekend
A festival in Brattelboro, Vt. offers a “physically progressive” experience to spectators through site-specific performance
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Five Questions for Dean Moss
Culturebot’s Maura Donohue talks to Dean Moss who premieres “Nameless Forest” this week and next at The Kitchen.
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“Alley of the Dolls” at Joe’s Pub
Comic chops, rock star energy, and fembot precision in Nicole Wolcott and Vanessa Walter’s new show
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10 Minutes with Levi Gonzalez
This weekend, Levi Gonzales premiers his first completed work in 4 years at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. The result of a year-long BAX Artist Residency, “Intimacy” is a solo performance that uses text, meditation and movement and was developed in collaboration with dramaturg Susan Mar Landau. I spoke with him briefly this morning. I read in…
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Five Questions for Robin Staff
Culturebot’s Maura Donohue talks to DanceNOW’s Executive Artistic Director and Producer Robin Staff.
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Juliette Mapp’s “The Making of Americans”
I’ve been thinking about how watching live performance is often an act of meditative practice for me. I’ve considered this before, but Andy’s recent post about watching performance as a spiritual practice was quite eloquent and inspiring. It has had me actively pondering how to explain a parallel (or intersecting? or shared?) theory, especially after…
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Body Madness @ Danspace Project: a rumination
A lot of great things have been said about Judy Hussie-Taylor’s Platform structures at Danspace Project. They’ve served as great mobilizers of artists as advocates, curators, and creators and as springboards for a great range of dialogues among the various audiences who attend any (or many) of the shows within any given Platform theme. They…
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Five Questions for Stephen Petronio
Stephen Petronio’s acclaimed “Underland” has its NYC debut this week at BAC
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10 minutes with Hilary Clark
Hilary Clark culminates her DTW Studio Series residency tonight and tomorrow with showings at 6pm. In addition to being a 2008-09 Fresh Tracks artist, Clark was awarded a Bessie for her body of work as a performer with Tere O’Connor, Fiona Marcotty, and Luciana Achugar. She’s also danced with Jon Kinzel, Larissa Velez and Miguel…
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Five (new) Questions for John Scott
The director of Irish Modern Dance Theater on working with torture survivors in “Fall and Recover” at La MaMa