Five Questions with Lisa Clair & Shannon Sindelar
the female golem as child rang true to me as I questioned my own creative potential
Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” Offers Up Complex Women and Self-Criticism in a Quasi-Solipsistic Depiction of the 60s
There are those cultural events that feel too good to be true – many stars align to create a perfectly satisfying contribution, almost all-encompassing in its thoughtoutness.
The Chaos Porn of Gelitin, Young Boy Dancing Group, and Alex Tatarsky
we come to performance to watch people get wrecked and wreck each other in a simulated way, while remaining in the comfort of our own private spectatorship
Thinking “La Machine de Turing” at La MaMa
There is an insidious thrum of accelerated timelines smashing together at the messy intersection of computational expansiveness, human fear, militaristic state intervention and governmental ignorance in “La Machine de Turing” currently running at La MaMa through March 5th
Sure, Critique Ballet and Balanchine, but Erika Lantz Does it Wrong
Pain has been felt in the halls of Balanchine’s house, but joy and beauty exist too. Neither outweighs the other.
War Dreamers, War Nightmares
Stevens and Treadway gravitate towards original plays that, like WAR DREAMER, look at extreme human behavior and have an experimental edge
A Celebration of the Life & Art of Mikéah Ernest Jennings
Livestream the Chocolate Factory’s memorial event Monday, Feb. 6 at 5:30pm eastern
No Dance Schools in Anatevka: Fidler Afn Dakh’s Staś Kmieć interviewed by Hallie Chametzky
There is no audience. There is a community and you’re connected to the community and you’re not playing to the audience. There happens to be an audience and they’re looking through a keyhole and seeing this unique culture and its traditions and its dances and community, speaking in a language they don’t know.
American Ghoul at Suite/SPACE 2022
Something was exhumed on the stage that night— what it was still haunts me.
Ontroerend Goed’s “Are we not drawn onward…” at Under the Radar 2023
Heading into BAM’s Fishman Space for Ontroerend Goed, part of the Public’s 2023 Under the Radar Festival, felt like finally getting to a long-delayed date. I’d been looking forward to catching the Belgian company since I first missed them with their career-making The Smile Off
Between Dreaming and Real in DES MOINES
…embodies what I’ll describe as a challengingly lateral Death-drive dramaturgy…
Performing Precarity: Young Boy Dancing Group at Pageant
The discomfort of navigating precarity is not merely a state of being, but more truthfully, a continuous fact of life.