Accomplices in the Realness: Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire & NIC Kay
The age of the ally is over, let’s be accomplices. Maura on Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire and NIC Kay at American Realness 2018.
The age of the ally is over, let’s be accomplices. Maura on Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire and NIC Kay at American Realness 2018.
Blaming Alastair is so over, American Realness is neither of those things and The January Shit Show concludes. What are your resolutions for the New Year?
American Realness on Friday featured Jeanine Durning, Faye Driscoll, Tony Rizzi and Miguel Gutierrez all pushing in their own ways. I want to crawl inside Durning’s head after experiencing her impressive nonstop speaking improvisation inging, which seems to emerge from lines of reasoning, free association
A Sunday marathon at American Realness instigated thoughts about consent, the public sphere and collisions among artists. The refined schedule and pace of Ben Pryor’s festival feels welcomingly more spacious and navigable than last year. Spending the day with Jack Ferver, Maria Hassabi, Keith Hennessey’s
CBOT special contributor Julie Potter tackles Jack Ferver, Wally Cardona, and Jeremy Wade at American Realness
CBOT’s first report from this year’s American Realness festival
Emily Johnson/Catalyst is an artist for the coming age. Big Dance Theater’s subversively brilliant, mmm… at this point in their careers perhaps brilliantly subversive makes more sense. Day 4 of the January Festival Feast, more COIL and American Realness.
Several times, misdirected/redirected, freezing and running in white-out conditions, I wondered why bother at all. But, sometimes it’s all you can do to just show up… 2 American Realness Discourse Talks, 2 Works-in-progress, 1 tight bit o’ dance.
Stormy talks to Cynthia Oliver and David Thomson about Tere O’Connor’s “Sister” (American Realness, Jan. 9 and 11, 2015)
Maura shares thoughts on a few works at American Realness and Focus Dance.
Juliana May and Miguel Gutierrez made this video as part of American Realness.
A lightly edited open letter Ben Pryor wrote to Alastair MacAuley in response to an email exchange about American Realness