Tag: baryshnikov arts center
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Ellen Cornfield and Brian McCormick in Conversation
They saw, “formalism with flair, and flights of fancy. Quirky, rhythmic, gestural phrases woven into broadly abstract works with exciting choreography. Cute moments that hint at a story.”
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Schoen Movement Company and Elena Hecht in Conversation
Maybe the political statement is that it’s not political. We can exist together, we can live together, without it being some message or some signpost in the sand, some marker of who you are.
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Joseph Keckler and Ariana Reines in Conversation
There’s a genial kind of, I don’t know, Brechtian disruption going on when you hurl that sound at people. They just lose their shit and do not know what to do with themselves. It is somehow a punk rock gesture.
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Terrence O’Brien in the studio
“I’ll just put my bias on the table.” What is the impact of the work? “Let’s turn over the rock and see what’s under there.” Terry says.
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Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum in conversation
There is a general consensus that this moment can’t restore power to a people who aren’t in the room. But perhaps it can deflate the confidence of a narrative that props up those in power?
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In the sublime of Kota Yamazaki’s “Darkness Odyssey Part 2: I or Hallucination”
I would have this piece on an endless loop that I might wander through like a cherry blossom viewing “hanami” stroll, or soak in like a yuzu-scented hinoki bath in the woods. Joanna Kotze and Mina Nishimura share thoughts from inside their fractal realm.
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Refusing to Bow Down: Dorothée Munyaneza speaks about “Unwanted”
Maura interviews Dorothée Munyaneza. Her “Unwanted” has its New York premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center TONIGHT (September 21-22). Her “Samedi Détente” at Under the Radar Festival in early 2016 ripped open the wounds of the genocide in Rwanda. With “Unwanted,” she explores the physical and mental repercussions of rape used as an instrument of war.
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Passing On the Passed (Past)
I could go on, you should go on for me, counting heros not yet fallen.
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Ain Gordon’s “Radicals in Miniature” at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Along the way, I make my own discoveries. I add my names to the list. I summon my personal radicals as I watch and witness…the dead will have their due.
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Identity as Action in Daniel Fish’s “Who Left This Fork Here”
The director offers his latest multi-disciplinary exercise in task-based performance
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FIND YOURSELF HERE
Rennie McDougall responds to Joanna Kotze’s FIND YOURSELF HERE at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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LeeSaar on “Princess Crocodile” @ BAC
Lydia chats with Lee Sher and Saar Harari about investment in process, being a person first, making work as a couple and the NYC premier of “Princess Crocodile.”
