Pastoral Paradox
A response to “Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor” at the 2017 BAM Next Wave Festival
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Geoff Sobelle’s House Party – ‘HOME’ at BAM
Sobelle’s work relies heavily on what one might describe as “sleight-of-staging,” which I’ll posit here is a cross between what a magician does with objects (cards and the like) and what a director does with design and blocking.
On How Not to Adapt a Complicated Book
Tone-deaf and half-baked, Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of “The Fountainhead” flounders onstage
Citizens and Discontent: Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel
Christmas in Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel prove dancing and singing are practices of resilence and resistance.
Monchichi @ BAM
Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez, of Wang Ramirez, are often presented as cross-cultural navigators, both in their performance styles and in their personal lives. Wang is a Korean-German dancer with training in martial arts, ballet, and hip-hop, while Ramirez is a French-Spanish B-boy. From the
Deathlandia: THE UNDERTAKING, Steven Cosson, The Civilians in collaboration with Jessica Mitrani, BAM Next Wave
I wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and check if my partner is still breathing.
Post-Rock and the Dance: A Bromance
Which bodies rocked other bodies? Was the whole work rockin’ enough, man?
Searching for Bohemia
The Civilians’ Rimbaud in New York @ BAM
From Russia, With Love: The Cherry Orchard
Nothing is sacred…Not even nostalgia.
Choreographing the unexpected in LEIMAY’s borders
Breathe. Breathe. And try to hold the space.
Everymen: Actors Theatre of Louisville’s The Glory of the World
What I remember about Everyman, the 15th (I think?) century morality play taught in many theater history surveys: next to nothing. It’s allegorical, performers act in the role of virtues, there’s a journey, maybe a choice? God weighs in? So, what does that have to
The Gift of Remembrance
Reflections on Paterson Joseph’s Sancho: An Act of Remembrance.