Ella Rothschild @ BAC
Ella Rothschild X Melissa Levin
THE CONVERSATIONALISTS converse with cinema
The made-up movie feels like one of those sweeping international melodramas with lots of expansive cinematography. In the minds of its creators, it’s an epic-length narrative replete with multi-generational strands and leaps forward in time.
DEVOTION DEVOTION at the Exponential Festival: Process Conversation with Lydia Mokdessi
This body unfurls in slow motion, leaving ample space for labels, classifications, and archetypes to land upon her and vanish.
DISTANCES SMALLER THAN THIS ARE NOT CONFIRMED confronts the unconfirmable
It’s about how we try to use stories to explain things that we otherwise can’t explain, and how sometimes even those stories don’t do the work for us. How do we keep doing the work after the story?
12 Shows that Totally Ruled Charles Quittner’s 2019
From nightclubs, to rehearsal studios, I found dynamic perspectives and delicious new forms in the many shows I was lucky enough to catch in NYC this year.
Not Afraid to Play: A Conversation with David Commander
My dad called in a fright. He said, “My God, there’s a gun in one of these boxes!” And I said, “Yeah, I bought a gun once.” He said “Well, I want to throw it away.” I said, “That’s fine, you can throw it away.” So they buried it.
Vibrating Borders: a Conversation with Kate Kremer
what I’m doing is, by cutting things the way that I’m cutting them, and by putting them in the proximity that I’m putting them in, I’m trying to make more audible the patterns that you wouldn’t see if you were just reading reams and reams of these cases.
Martine Gutierrez’s CIRCLE at Performance Space New York
I start to explain something about artistic agency over visual archives of original work but all that comes out is I guess we’re all in trouble.
The Process Matters: a response to CAKE, a journey of fluid and frosting
Leopard slugs, and CAKE as a whole, provides a reminder to all of us that the romance-as-happy-ending thing is an odd societal compulsion, perhaps even an obsolete one
Do you Believe? Lucas Hnath’s THE THIN PLACE
We lean in, unable to control our own desire to be persuaded, even as we know that this is a play, this is not true, this is just another gesture in a world full of them
Do You Cocktail? A New Party Game Emerges in Chelsea
It’s less an interview and more a listening circle — if you are comfortable talking in front of a group, you’ll be just fine at it
Thomas Ostermeier’s Magnificent Adaptation of “History of Violence” at St Ann’s Warehouse
When the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vest”) protests broke out just a little over a year ago, the leaderless, populist movement was somewhat baffling – as with so much of French social life – for Americans. Beginning as a protest against a fuel tax combating global