Tag: mdonohue
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10 Minutes with Levi Gonzalez
This weekend, Levi Gonzales premiers his first completed work in 4 years at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. The result of a year-long BAX Artist Residency, “Intimacy” is a solo performance that uses text, meditation and movement and was developed in collaboration with dramaturg Susan Mar Landau. I spoke with him briefly this morning. I read in…
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Five Questions for Robin Staff
Culturebot’s Maura Donohue talks to DanceNOW’s Executive Artistic Director and Producer Robin Staff.
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Juliette Mapp’s “The Making of Americans”
I’ve been thinking about how watching live performance is often an act of meditative practice for me. I’ve considered this before, but Andy’s recent post about watching performance as a spiritual practice was quite eloquent and inspiring. It has had me actively pondering how to explain a parallel (or intersecting? or shared?) theory, especially after…
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Body Madness @ Danspace Project: a rumination
A lot of great things have been said about Judy Hussie-Taylor’s Platform structures at Danspace Project. They’ve served as great mobilizers of artists as advocates, curators, and creators and as springboards for a great range of dialogues among the various audiences who attend any (or many) of the shows within any given Platform theme. They…
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Five Questions for Stephen Petronio
Stephen Petronio’s acclaimed “Underland” has its NYC debut this week at BAC
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10 minutes with Hilary Clark
Hilary Clark culminates her DTW Studio Series residency tonight and tomorrow with showings at 6pm. In addition to being a 2008-09 Fresh Tracks artist, Clark was awarded a Bessie for her body of work as a performer with Tere O’Connor, Fiona Marcotty, and Luciana Achugar. She’s also danced with Jon Kinzel, Larissa Velez and Miguel…
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Five (new) Questions for John Scott
The director of Irish Modern Dance Theater on working with torture survivors in “Fall and Recover” at La MaMa
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Sarah Maxfield’s “We deserve each other” at The Chocolate Factory
On the choreographer’s moving “love letter” to NYC’s performance community
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Arturo Vidich’s “Body Island” at Abrons Art Center
Rats and water onstage in a video-installation drama of survival and communion
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10 Minutes With Sarah Maxfield
The choreographer discusses her upcoming show at the Chocolate Factory
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Vicky Shick’s “Not Entirely Herself” at The Kitchen
Maura Donohue reviews her colleague Vicky Shick’s show at the Kitchen
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10 Minutes With Solo Badolo
DTW’s Studio Series kicks off tonight at 6pm with Souleymane Badolo showing work-in-process Solo’s Solo/”Basic”- a study on how NOT to go so low or too deep (with changes in direction). During Souleymane’s 100-hour creative residency he and choreographer Reggie Wilson met to investigate movement, gesture, repetition, and structure. Looking to see when, how, and…