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Topo/Choreo-graphy
They dropped to the ground, out of view for anyone sitting at the center of the audience circle, and they rippled back up again. Then, almost unexpectedly, they were in the audience. They felt close, too close.
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One Song: Miet Warlop’s Race Against Time
One by one, they collapse, until all that’s left is the sound of the metronome, a painful reminder that time will inevitably run out for each of us, even for those with the most endurance.
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What is a liberated body? “Talking” Exorcism = Liberation with Yanira Castro
An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro’s Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day.
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How Jérôme Bel remade himself
“For this piece, I have not produced anything new,” he says as the show draws to an end. He didn’t need to.
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A Clean Sweep in ELEGIE’s The Maids
Few things make you feel as lucky to live in New York as being around artists at the beginning of their careers. This is certainly the case with ELEGIE, a
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The Room Where It Happens (The Room Being Your Head or, the Phenomenology of Neurodiversity in Performance)
The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre’s “The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes” at REDCAT
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Asking More from Matthew Freeman’s “The Ask”
Matthew Freeman, like most New York City creatives, has a day job. The award-winning playwright, who premiered his latest play, The Ask, in early September, spends his time out of
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Father/Parent, Mother/Father: Imaging the Possibility of Both in Kelindah Bee Schuster’s “seapony”
The audience sits on sand while an artist simulates giving birth. Each one of their limbs dunked in a separate bucket of water, jutted in a prone crabwalk position, they
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New York City’s God-Shaped Holes in Ian Reid’s “Heaven is a place in the sky”
Purchase tickets to Ian Reid’s Heaven is a Place in the Sky, running September 3-8 at The Tank! Friends premiered almost 30 years ago exactly, on September 22nd, 1994. Its
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A Conversation with “Sex and the Abbey” Playwright Diana Ly
Recently, the playwright Diana Ly and I spoke about her philosophical, funny, tender, deeply felt, “medieval miniature” (Helen Shaw, The New Yorker) play Sex and the Abbey, which runs at
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And When We Say “Expecting Immensity,” What Do We Mean?: Confronting Expectant Motherhood in Sophie McIntosh’s “Cunnicularii”
Playwright Sophie McIntosh’s latest play, Cunnicularii, which ran for two weeks in July at Chelsea’s Alchemical Studios, centers on the seldom discussed ‘fourth trimester’– the time between birth and
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It’s Nice to See You: An Empathetic Theatrical Experience for One
You – just you – walk into an empty space. The only thing visible is a note with a phone number on it, and when the voice on the other
