Zen and the Art of Stage Directing or conversations about expectations or just making up your damn mind already
Alexandra Beller and Ivan Talijančić in conversation about choice-making, dramaturgy, and building Mindflock.
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Walter Dundervill’s ARENA @ JACK
Rennie McDougall on Walter Dundervill’s “Arena” at JACK, July 30-August 1 2015.
SEDIMENTS OF AN ORDINARY MIND
This text was originally commissioned by Weld Company, Stockholm as part of their ongoing process to rediscover, reevaluate, and update the format of the Dance Company. Dancers and choreographers from different backgrounds share a common, daily and physical practice, raising questions on dance and choreography. In 2013 Michael Klien was invited to situate Sediments of an Ordinary Mind, a work that had originally premiered in Ireland (Daghdha) ten years earlier.
Cynthia Oliver on exhaustion, posturing, and emotional cost in BOOM!
Last week Cynthia Oliver and I spoke about her latest duet dance work, BOOM!, which premiered at New York Live Arts in October. I was compelled by the way one aesthetic or singular movement exploration blended into the next, the boldness of Oliver’s decisions in
Propositions: To Dance Differently
Choreographer and thinker Michael Kliën shares his vision on new directives for dance with Propositions: To Dance Differently
Seattle Cleans Up the Princess Grace Choreo Awards
Seattle choreographers share the Princess Grace Foundation’s 2011 Choreography Awards
Kate Weare & Monica Bill Barnes at the Joyce Theatre
Last night’s performance at the Joyce Theatre—the other half of the alternating double-bills they’re running this week—is a perfect illustration of what I was writing about yesterday when I faulted Camille A. Barnes’ choreography for relying too heavily on the music, and letting her own