Month: June 2024
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On the Possibility of Life in Contemporary Performance: A Conversation with Audrée Juteau
Audrée Juteau’s methods are fungal. She is breaking down detritus in our societal soil and making it into art. Dance is the mushroom in Mystic-Informatic, which Audrée and her human […]
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Pioneers Go East Collective at Judson: Queer Artists Make Big Sounds in A Big Room In A Church.
For two nights, Judson Church hosted the Crossroads Series with varied programming each evening. On Tuesday, April 23rd, three very different performances were presented by Pioneers Go East Collective, a […]
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A Conversation with Architectural Historian and Balletomane Thomas Mellins on “Excellence and Innovation: New York City Ballet at 75”
I’ve always known that the David H Koch Theater, once known as The New York State Theater, was made to George Balanchine’s specifications. Still, until sitting down to speak […]
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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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In Colt Coeur’s “Still,” Politics Aren’t Quite Personal Enough.
My interest in theater, and acting, came from what I perceived as an intellectual limitation in ballet, where training is relegated to silence. While discussions of technique and aesthetic […]