Category: Essays
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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Open Spectrum Critical Community Dialogues: Navigating Privilege
On Monday, December 7th, at 7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts will host the second of a series of Open Spectrum Community Dialogues, produced in association with MAPP International Productions. Culturebot, as critical partner, reached […]
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An Aesthetic Meditation
How are we expanding the cultural diversity narrative through creative works?
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We never use texts. We use the sounds of people talking as a kind of score.
French playwright Joris Lacoste on his latest work with spoken language.
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X-ID Rep @ New Museum
X-ID, a pop-up repertory company, will bring together a diverse group of theater artists to examine the occurrence of intercultural cross-play on American stages.
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BOSSS – an essay on the site-specific and one person’s contemplation of realness
An essay response to the Big Outdoor Site-Specific Stuff Festival (Oct. 23-25, 2015)
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Nude Body
thINKingDANCE’s Zornitsa Stoyanova reflects on performing unclothed in “shatter:::down” and “Mylar Storms”. Philadelphia, 2013.
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Criticism for Theatre’s Sake
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 20 (pp. 261 – 264) of Mark Fisher’s book How To Write About Theatre, published by Bloomsbury and released in paperback in August, […]
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A World Premiere Doubling as a Grand Finale
Th opening of “Life & Times – Episodes 7-8-9” marks the end of Nature Theater of Oklahoma as an ensemble of makers and players.
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The NEA at 50 and The Death of the Public Good
“When are we artists and when are we everyone?” The answer, of course, is that artists are always everyone, we are members of a greater Public, and it is in acknowledging this that artists can create change.