Month: January 2017
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Anna Marie Shogren’s “Human Anatomy” @ Vital Matters
Minneapolis, MN I was catering the opening night of the Vital Matters Festival of Dance at the Southern Theater, so between arranging plates, slicing bread, instructing assistants, opening jars, and […]
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Otto Ramstad’s “Lineage” @ Vital Matters
In the context of a contemporary dance festival dedicated to the “vital materiality of the body,” I was surprised that the greatest challenge to my idea of embodiment came about […]
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I Went To A Contemporary Dance Festival With My Cool Mom, This Is What Happened @ Vital Matters
Vital Matters Dance Festival The Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN October 20, 2016 HIJACK, Anna Marie Shogren, Otto Ramstad, //CATHEDRAL\\ I go to shows mostly for two reasons, and I bet […]
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Identity politics and dance in the age of Trump: Or how to become a “body without organs” and still acknowledge some borders
In October, I saw two very different works by the French choreographer Jérôme Bel: Jérôme Bel at The Kitchen and Artist’s Choice: Jérôme Bel/ MoMA Dance Company at MoMA. The […]
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And Time Goes By So Slowly When You’re Watching Jérôme Bel
The Show Must Go On Time has passed since Jérôme Bel’s The Show Must Go On premiered in Paris, and not an insubstantial amount, either: it was first shown in […]
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Sex and Foie Gras
A conversation with playwright Kate Benson and director Lee Sunday Evans on their new play, [PORTO], at The Bushwick Starr
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Standing Up in January: Day 2 Dispatch (COIL, Squirts & La Mama with Pavel Zustiak, Patti Harrison & Marga Gomez)
La Mama dispatch for PS 122’s COIL Fest, Pavel Zustiak’s “Custodians of Beauty” and “Bastard (The Painted Bird: Part 1)” and Squirts intergenerational queer pairings with stand up sets from Patti Harrison and Marga Gomez. To start the year alternating between bent over from either despair or because I might laugh so hard that the…
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Getting Real in January: Day 1 Dispatch (American Realness 2017 opens)
Day 1 of the Festival of Festivals or January Feast: Based on last night’s opening works by Will Rawls, Meg Stuart and Dana Michel I’d say the American Realness focus on the “breakdown of white-supremacist hierarchies” and on the practice of “realness as resistance,” is helping us all define which America(s) we mean to stand…
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Lily Kind on Annie Wilson’s “At Home with Humorless Bastard”
What a fucking metaphor you guys.
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Festival profile: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver
Festivals like PuSh are much more sensitive and responsive to what is really happening in the world than most city theatres are. Festivals are free to focus on the right artistic priorities.
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Squirts is Coming: An Interview with Dan Fishback
La MaMa’s Squirts celebrates its 5th anniversary with a series of intergenerational duets to “mend the queer generation gap, or at least bedazzle it.” Now more than ever… now more than never, we’re all going to have to protect legacies and build futures together.
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Anna Christie – a response
O’Neill succeeds in using a traditional four act structure to present what one can only imagine were revolutionary feminist ideas when this play was first produced.