Category: Essays
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JOURNALS FROM THE DEAD: A week inside the process of Heather Christian’s Animal Wisdom as told by musician / actor / filmmaker, Maya Sharpe
Animal metaphors are used to inspire and describe the texture of the words and atmosphere.
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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.
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Texting Under the Table: Reflecting on three works in conversation at the Whitney Biennial 2017
These works imagined utopias that challenge our assumptions about the limits of what we accept as reality.
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The Chronic Pleasure of Creating Queer Spaces
She mourns and then she is fully present, looking right through you, dancing with abandon.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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.