The Chronic Pleasure of Creating Queer Spaces
She mourns and then she is fully present, looking right through you, dancing with abandon.
Category Archives: Essays
How To Build A Tea Shack with Sam: Digressing Towards Coherence
This is that Marco Polo shit, I realized. This city, we’ve inherited it. We’re in it. And I didn’t think anybody else besides Sam would care with the fervor that I did.
Dancing with Ghosts: Trajal Harrell’s Becoming/Chanelling/Voguing Kazuo Ohno/Tatsumi Hijikata/Antonia Merce
A new way of being, a new world emerges, one of infinite possibility, as the current one is upended.
On Not ‘Getting It’
When one goes to the beach, does one lie on the sand and watch the water? Or does one wade in until they can barely reach the bottom?
Downtown Icons, Non-Consenual Relationships with Ghosts, & Passages
Someday, if the Earth survives this oligarchy’s drive to suck the life out of her and us, historians, archivists, and survivors will share stories of the work being made in “this era.” 1 Panel & 2 shows.
New Industry Standards – 3 Hole Press & The Art of the Published Play
In my early playwriting days, back when the majority of play submission opportunities had to be printed and mailed, it used to be very common to come across a submission guideline such as this one: “All submitted plays must be formatted according to accepted industry standards.”
Rupture This: Artists Co-Creating Real Equity, Create NYC, Eiko, The Bureau for the Future of Choreography
2 workshops, 2 shows – White Organizational Cultures, Equity, Eiko and the Senate
Immersive Theater and Intellectual Property
We had already been rehearsing for 6 months without having seen a contract. Our preview period was to begin in less than three weeks, design was beginning to be incorporated, and everyone was very, very busy. This show was shaping up to be the first episode
Considering Voiceover – via Kate Benson’s [Porto] at the Bushwick Starr
Benson’s voiceover technique does all the good stuff and almost none of the bad stuff that you usually get from utilizing a narrator in the theater.
Please Fuck Off Jérôme Bel or A 50 Year Old French White Man Makes An All Bodies Matter Dance and I Hate It
Yes! A literal PARADE of surface level DIVERSITY.
Down on the ground and out on the streets: towards cultural equity
Everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society. – from Americans for the Arts: Statement on Cultural Equity On Saturday evening, as part of Bridging: A French-American Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion in
Meditation on Translations: New Saloon’s MINOR CHARACTER
In the polarity of young and old, there lies the lunacy of the human mind, a peephole into our own fraught psychosis.