Extended Play(fulness) & Big Dance Theater’s Antigonick
While the subject matter is dead serious, the style and aesthetic approach feels giddy, unafraid of big stupid choices when they’re appropriate.
Tag Archives: Abrons Art Center
A Damaged Interview with a Complete Freak Box
In the alchemy of her performance, humor and transformation become means not of hiding the self, but of revealing it.
The Art v. The Artist: POLLOCK explores the repercussions of abuse
Not long after the new Whitney opened in 2015, the museum exhibited an all-star lineup of abstract expressionists on their seventh floor, where they show their permanent collection. On the money wall — the final north facing wall before the windows and doors to the
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.
in spite of safety and comfort: Perforations Festival round up
Perforations Festival brings us into direct responsibility for the execution of artistic ideas and challenges the passive stasis of sideline observation in a mostly successful series of performances that ripped apart conventional norms.
Rip It Open: “Perforations Festival” is coming back to NYC
Maura and Eugene de Poogene yelled over really loud music with Croatian curator and producer Zvonimir Dobrovic about his “Perforations Festival” – opening Friday.
Entering the Fifth Dimension: Yanira Castro’s STAGE
Its in-betweenness, like the liminal space of “not me…not not me,” grants us the ability to be in two places at once.
How Do You Feel?
In THE POWER OF EMOTION: THE APARTMENT, the notion of emotion as a perfomative element provides the foundation for a wider exploration on how we not only watch, but hear and interpret emotion.
Feeling Grief, Feeling Female, Feeling Un-American
A never-ending stream of hypnotic ghosts.
Between Walled Rooms: Tyler Rai on Ivy Baldwin’s “Keen [No. 2]”
it was about our bodies.
no, it was about our wildness.
as if you could divide them.
Freely expressing in January: Day 6 Dispatch (AR Talk, Jen Rosenblit, Bessies honor Judy Hussie-Taylor)
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and M. Lamar are Incomprehensible, Jen Rosenblit claps hands, and Lucy Sexton, Lisa Kron, Yvonne Rainer and The Bessies celebrate Judy Hussie-Taylor, Rockette Phoebe Pearl and The Right to Free Expression (1st Amendment).
Shifting Shape in January: Day 5 Dispatch (AR Talk, Juliana May, Ni’Ja Whitson & Wendell Cooper)
Monday morning performance hangover is cured by a talk moderated by Tara Aisha Willis, and the works of Julianna May, Ni’Ja Whitson/The NWA Project and Wendell Cooper/Mx. Oops…”in all my life, I’ve never seen this and I’m not even sure what the this is, but I know, I know I’m seeing something, something whose name I am still yet to learn but something that rises and stands, defies old paradigms and is filled with heat and strength and a promise for the tomorrows…”