Author: Meg Doyle
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Performing the Palimpsest: Electric Blue and Naked Vanguard at La MaMa Moves!
Some performances can bring back the dead. Through references and recordings, through revivals and reenactments, they channel the spirit of the artists and choreography they cite and call upon […]
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Attention, Salvation, and Celebration: Three Emerging Choreographers of La MaMa Moves!
There is a moment in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot that I return to whenever I think about the relationship between dance and language. It’s an often misquoted scene, but […]
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“Surrounded by the Same Water, Divided by the Same Fields”: Owen McCafferty’s Agreement
The first songs I learned as a child were rebel songs. They recounted uprisings, hunger strikes, and rebellions; they rhymed and were easy to remember. Lyrics like “Some say the […]
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ON HOLDING AND (UN)LOCKING: CHOREOGRAPHING THE IRISH DANCE ARCHIVE IN Jean Butler’s What We Hold
There is a photograph of my grandad and three of his brothers taken in Dublin in the early 1930s; the brothers stand in a row and pose with their arms […]