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Toying with Irony in Volta Collective’s SALT
In SALT, a semi-interactive dance-theater work by Los Angeles-based Volta Collective, director-choreographer Mamie Green and writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells take on Euripides’s Medea. But, instead of featuring a
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Dialogue vs Diagnosis in Matthew Gasda’s “Morning Journal”
The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, based out of a loft in Greenpoint, is known for shows that tread the line of intellectualism and indulgence. Playwright and director Matthew
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The Inner-Inarticulate of KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA
Through their inner-experience, we see that the women’s profound losses and fears are surrounded by decidedly mundane and glancing frustrations – the very kind that eat away at all of our sense of agency but are the stuff of the everyday absurd
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Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector
La MaMa ETC and CultureHub presented Kazakhstan’s ORTA Collective in Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector.
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Performing the Palimpsest: Electric Blue and Naked Vanguard at La MaMa Moves!
Some performances can bring back the dead. Through references and recordings, through revivals and reenactments, they channel the spirit of the artists and choreography they cite and call upon
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Looking Through the Window with Mur
Mur shows up at the Murray Hill coffee shop in an outfit streaked with multicolored paint and a gift for me still drying in their hand. The performance artist
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Binging to Bliss in “Bodhisattva Beer Run”
A golden age is brewing for AAPI contemporary performance[i] with Glenn Potter-Takata and evan ray suzuki serving as crafty “kodama” (木霊, 木魂 or 木魅) leading us through the forest to refreshing springs of compositional bliss.
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Highly Produced Punk Chaos in Alex Romania’s FACE EATERS
One of the work’s most shocking accomplishments is that, despite the intense volume, confounding poetic ramblings, disturbing vibes, and depressing inspiration, the audience loves it.
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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
