Month: September 2015
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THERE and Back Again: Jo Stromgren’s Sub-Created Survivors
Erin Washburn responds to Jo Stromgren Kompani’s THERE at Philly Fringe.
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Katy Pyle, Ballez, and the Virtuosity of the Queer Body
There’s a way that the people around me and with me have developed a way of interacting with the world and creating meaning with their bodies—with their physicality and their energy—that is in opposition to expectations.
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Bear Masks, Baby Powder, and Blindfolds: My First Edinburgh Festival Fringe
No sensible person pretends the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a breeze. Every August, performers and audiences and critics swarm the charming Scottish capital for three weeks of thrumming, sleep-deprived, often […]
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Miguel Gutierrez in conversation with Rennie McDougall on “Age and Beauty” at New York Live Arts
It’s basically “A Christmas Carol” meets the Spectrum [queer club in Brooklyn]. (maniacally laughs).
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Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s After the Rehearsal/Persona at Philly Fringe
Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival is comprised of two types of fringe-ing. There’s the Independent/Neighborhood Fringe–which is Fringe as we typically understand it, independent producers sprawled all over the city making weird […]
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CHICKEN TENDERS: Peter Whitehead, poultry, and the art of collapse in Sister Sylvester’s They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain
Sister Sylvester’s new piece, They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain, opens with the company’s founder and director, Kathryn Hamilton, cheerfully and pragmatically laying out a few basic facts […]
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DanceNow 20th Anniversary Season
DANCENOWNYC celebrates 20 years with the 2015 Festival at Joe’s Pub.
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On Prophecy and War and The Body As Resistance
An interview with Francis Weiss Rabkin
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Historical Subterfuge
Jerry Lieblich talks with Kareem Fahmy and Victor Lesniewski about Couriers and Contrabands, upcoming at TGB Theater.
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Kids on Fire (a response to FIREFACE at the Brick)
Fire, as a concept or symbol, has taken on a wide range of meaning throughout literary and dramatic history. I think almost immediately of The Firebugs, a German play written […]
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That Time I Left You For The Burlesque Dancer (a response to MAGIC TRICK)
Mariah MacCarthy’s play Magic Trick unfolds itself over the course of about two and a half hours in semi-fragmented short-to-medium length scenes, weaving a narrative that functions primarily as […]