Creating New Futures: A Statement in Solidarity with Emily Johnson & Calls to Action
I hope the more arts workers and others share these stories, the more clear and obvious the focus on change becomes. —Emily Johnson
“Lucky Star: superstar” at the (online) Exponential Festival
Fact and fiction, inseparable, blur and tease. Cut to disco ball, still swinging. Slow down and watch the air sparkle.
TRAPDOORS INTO OTHER WORLDS: Shayok Misha Chowdhury talks with Tarfia Faizullah about VICHITRA
Misha “sees” in multiple dimensions, as all great directors do, and through multiple worldviews, too, as an artist whose work is informed by being Bengali, queer, and an immigrant.
BREAKTIME at ARTS ALIVE
Created and performed by Holly Sass and Jonathan Matthews / BREAKTIME
This Box Tickles Fascists: On Brandon Woolf’s THE CONSOLE
Along with the liveness of unmediated human presence, THE CONSOLE manages to be zeitgeisty, equal parts response to Covid isolation and election anxiety, in a way that isn’t instructive. It feels vital, earnest, and all the more critically alive for its irreverence.
In the Kitchen – an interview with Hannah Aliza Goldman & Coral Cohen
I think all women and femme people have a complicated relationship with the kitchen, because patriarchy has told us it’s our “proper place,” so the kitchen is never a neutral space. It’s actually been part of my process of rebuffing patriarchy that I claim the kitchen as my own, a space I enter out of choice, for my own joy and fulfillment.
What Do You Miss? Reflections on KAREN, I SAID
Eliza Bent is about as close to a recognizable brand as you can get in downtown theater land (I say this in a good way) – she has a specific and winning skewed sensibility and a propensity for characters, which I assumed would not be overly diminished by the Zoom platform.
Out of An Abundance of Caution Volume 27, The Brick Theater (Live on Twitch)
And then, time reversed itself.
Noa Weiss on Netta Yerushalmy’s “Distance Dance Demonstration”
We sit like middle schoolers at lunch, cliques separated by social barriers. People chat. “Did you get the job?” “The one at TikTok? No, it was a no. They said they’re on a hiring freeze.”
Black Dance Stories with Cynthia Oliver and Marjani Forté-Saunders
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It’s a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversations you once shared over drinks, plus powerful sentiments you’re overhearing now at BLM protests.
Black Dance Stories with Jamar Roberts and Tiffany Rae-Fisher
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It’s a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversations you once shared over drinks, plus powerful sentiments you’re overhearing now at BLM protests.
5 Questions with Marga Gomez
The timeless, classic Cubana Rican performance artist stand-up comic Marga Gomez leans into her fears and at large: the pitfalls of friendship and failed perseverance that bog down all of humanity.