Annie Wang’s “had my mouth” Offers Self-Protection Through Lyrical Movement
Were they bearing their teeth in preparation to kill? Screaming silently in agony? Conjuring lost joy of their youth?
January roundup – Mina Nishimura, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Yasuko Yokoshi, and Motus
So, while trying to strictly manage the pervasive NYC version of Arts Presenters-infected “festival fomo,” I still accumulated enough exposure to the spores of a range of performances in the January flurry to wander into a compost pile of considerations on what is doggedly sprouting among us in the age of extinction.
Radical Imagination, Aristotle Thinks Again!
The interdisciplinary work “Aristotle Thinks Again” is a thought-provoking masterpiece written by Chuck Mee, directed and choreographed by Dan Shafer, and co-created and choreographed by the immensely talented members of Great Jones Repertory.
Kinding Sindaw Shines a Light on History
Complexity often frightens people from engaging with the critical context and history that informs our current realities. So, what you will read is [not] complex. It is current and quite easy to understand: Colonizing powers have a problem with Indigeneity.
Storyletting: drawing forth ephemera from “the depths, not the sunken place”
This iteration of the work, presented as part of the Underground Uptown Festival’s Works and Process at the Guggenheim, was segmented to create discourse around the creative process. I can only describe my experience as profound.
“When The End Becomes The Beginning:” Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born’s adaku part 1: the road opens
Adaku’s forced departure forever alters her connection to reality — she is absorbed into the unknown, which marks the start of our inquiry. Her trauma, epistemically, is our starting point.
On NYCB’s 75th Fall: Leadership, Youth, and Deviation
This fall, NYCB kicked off the celebration of their 75th anniversary dedicating the entire season to the work of George Balanchine, the company’s co-founder and artistic realizer. On the night of October 11th, to memorialize the first-ever performance of The New York City Ballet at New York City Center, the company put on the exact same program, a triple-bill featuring Concerto Barroco, Orpheus, and Symphony in C.
James Allister Sprang at Baryshnikov Arts: Seeking Active “Rest Within the Wake”
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.
Retrospect: Concert of Propositional Music at University of Illinois
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.
Pulling Back the Curtain on Caborca Theatre’s ZOETROPE
the beauty of the play is that things get really weird, really fast at times, but always go back to the tune
Best of The Summer: Alex Edelman’s “Just For Us” — A Nuanced Exploration of Judaism and Standpoint
Edelman always wanted to be white. ‘I know, I know. Dream achieved!’ he says.
The Uses of Obscurity | a conversation with Jerry Lieblich, Steve Mellor, and Meghan Finn
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