Year: 2022
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Between Dreaming and Real in DES MOINES
…embodies what I’ll describe as a challengingly lateral Death-drive dramaturgy…
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Performing Precarity: Young Boy Dancing Group at Pageant
The discomfort of navigating precarity is not merely a state of being, but more truthfully, a continuous fact of life.
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the single most remarkable work of 2022
600 Highwaymen’s “A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly” is one of 2022’s most remarkable works of theater.
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“Dr. G’s Bingo Extravaganza” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Sifting through that experience over time we keep finding ourselves holding out our hands, cupped, like we had caught a firefly. It’s the gesture that says we too received a gift.
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Sha Creative Outlet: XS at The Center at West Park
Like a giant notebook portfolio or a crumpled map in the glove box of a borrowed car, the paper endures, holds the changes, shows the history of Sha and Sarah’s togetherness— and our witnessing of that togetherness.
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The National Gallery’s “Homecoming” and a Love Letter Between the Lines
Let us, then, be the dreamers of the empty space between repetitions that sows fertile soil for difference and kinship.
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Perkins & Borinsky | THE GOLD ROOM
Rehearsing it felt like having conversations with a ghost. Jacob from 4 years ago still has something to say to Jacob now. Jacob will always be becoming Jacob.
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Acheron: Brutal and Brilliant at New Ohio
Two figures approach each other. They could be brothers, countrymen, mortal enemies. In a world obsessed with borders, they are fundamentally different and dangerously similar.
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Queer Joy on the Beach
Waves crashed on the sand and ambient beats wafted from the DJ tent. Rainbow flags marked a sacred circle on the beach: beyond the luxurious summer homes and expensive restaurants, a brave queer oasis for experimental art emerged.
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PAGEANT Presents: Duet Night
For us, the dancers translate a shared archive into movement.
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Learning With and From Baltic artists in the Shadow of the War on Ukraine
I hope Putin understands “Fuck War” in not only Russian, but Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian as well.
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the land remembers, do you remember the land?
maura re/members with george emilio sanchez’s “In the Court of the Conquerer” & zavé martohardjono’s “TERRITORY: the Island Remembers” – audio version link available at top of post