Tag: Dance
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Shared Dreams, Temporary Realities
Contributor Brendan McCall on Alessia Palanti’s “All In Your Head” presented at Arts on Site.
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Binging to Bliss in “Bodhisattva Beer Run”
A golden age is brewing for AAPI contemporary performance[i] with Glenn Potter-Takata and evan ray suzuki serving as crafty “kodama” (木霊, 木魂 or 木魅) leading us through the forest to refreshing springs of compositional bliss.
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An Evening of Rhythm and Double Consciousness With Nimbus Dance
Currently mounted at Nimbus’s Firmament Gallery + Boutique is “Sometimes I Wander…” an exhibit displaying the photography of Life Magazine’s first Black photographer, Gordon Parks, and staff photographer at The Source, Chi Modu. The gallery, which regularly features local and Black art, showcases images of Blackness, Americana, and Community: Hip Hop.
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Storyletting: drawing forth ephemera from “the depths, not the sunken place”
This iteration of the work, presented as part of the Underground Uptown Festival’s Works and Process at the Guggenheim, was segmented to create discourse around the creative process. I can only describe my experience as profound.
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Kayla Farrish “Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2” (in development) at La MaMa Moves
Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2 (in draft form) at La MaMa Moves last month moves in and out of cinematic and live performance structures, often jump-cutting from internal narratives to vigorous dancing
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“Forced Beauty” by T.I.T.S. at La MaMa Moves
Hunter College Dance MFA Darvejon Jones writes about a program at the La MaMa Moves 2023 Festival.
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Harmonic Convergences at La MaMa Moves! 2021
A dominating thread of grief and healing wound its way through La MaMa Moves! 2021 and most of the artists brought song and storytelling into a festival that, as curator Nicky Paraiso acknowledged was full of resilient artists “making work that is essential and true to this pivotal moment in time.”
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mayfield brooks and Alec Duffy in conversation
There is no preaching to the choir when it comes to considering reparations, because there is no choir. It’s a lonely act.
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Stormy Budwig on Meg Stuart’s UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP
These moments of transparency and revealed infrastructure are strictly intended.
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Fault Lines Tremble: A Conversation with Tatyana Tenenbaum
This idea of American desire and what’s encapsulated in that is this reckoning, but, also holding the truths of being white in American culture means you have to hold the history of being an oppressor. But, then, how do you hold that?
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You Having Everything Means Nothing To Me
Between Walled Rooms is a series of freeform responses to live performance works by female identifying and gender nonconforming choreographers, initiated by Tara Sheena. This work is a response to Hadar Ahuvia’s “Everything you have is yours?”.
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I Just Unraveled Myself: Some Moments By/With/For Ash R.T. Yergens
The moment it becomes legible, it becomes something else.