Active reflection and associations should comprise our meditative state. If there were moments during the piece that disturbed us, we should return to the breathing exercise to find calm.
Being a witness of many of the referenced breakthroughs, Rosenboom, the pioneer of brainwave music, embodied the spirit of the legacy we aspired to dust off.
the beauty of the play is that things get really weird, really fast at times, but always go back to the tune
Edelman always wanted to be white. ‘I know, I know. Dream achieved!’ he says.
Jerry’s keen ear is tuned to productions of un-meaning—the kinds of nonsense, half-sense, and anti-sense that enable and mask violence, particularly violence committed in the names of patriotism and progress
PQ has “evolved into a platform, which explores progressive approaches, new media, virtual spaces and interdisciplinary relations.”
It makes me become like my gaze, a promiscuous saccade. I am jostled and stilled. I’m curled around the strange heat of my own body, a feverish REM cycle.
Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what life is like, I know everybody’s busy so
Two choreographers navigate the strangeness of the stage in works developed through a new residency in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
The flower we touch as children in awe burns. The only chide needed to withdraw. With undeniable power to flaw, fire will still flicker and die. For it lives, as do You and I. …a heap of various regrets, sorrowful realities of unfledged dreams, or
…strange, messy, and masterful. It might even restore one’s faith in independent theater.
On the ambivalent legacy of January’s premier festival