Category: Essays
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Open Spectrum Community Dialogues – Faces of Resistance: Young, Organized & Unified #FORYOU
Open Spectrum Dialogues @ New York Live Arts, Produced in Association with MAPP International Productions and Critical Partner, Culturebot.
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Feeling The Momentum in Edinburgh
Andy’s report from Festivals Edinburgh and the Momentum Symposium.
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Bear Masks, Baby Powder, and Blindfolds: My First Edinburgh Festival Fringe
No sensible person pretends the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a breeze. Every August, performers and audiences and critics swarm the charming Scottish capital for three weeks of thrumming, sleep-deprived, often soggy mayhem. Founded in 1947, it’s billed as the largest arts festival in the world. “I’m looking forward to having my city back,” a woman…
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Mariah MacCarthy on ‘Magic Trick’
Mariah MacCarthy’s ‘Magic Trick,’ playing at the Studio Theatre of Theatre Row from August 27th-September 12th, is a play in which a disabled person leaves her boyfriend and becomes a burlesque dancer. Culturebot reached out to Mariah to learn more about her process around creating this work. Burlesque is nudity on two levels: There’s the…
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Has The Playwright of Our Moment Been Dead for 60 Years?
Reviving Brecht for an Age of Decimation
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SUMMERGRASS, WHERE WARRIORS USED TO DREAM
All dance-spaces will have windows. The era of mapping one’s imagination upon ‘the void’ is over.
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Shifting from Neutral: An Affectful Manifesto
Neutral means without affect or action. It also has come to mean non-acting. I think it means normative. Authentic means true, and without filter. It has come to mean felt. I think it means normative. Real means not artificial. It has come to mean believable. I think it means nothing. Downtown Blindspot There is a…
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From Poland, With Love
Andy reports on his December trip to Poland.
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Looking for Work in All the Wrong Places Or: How I Stopped Believing in Unicorns and Learned to Ride a Horse
Alexander Leslie Thompson on un/under/semi-employment and the power of community.
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Reflections on Budapest -Theater and Cultural Politics
Talking Band’s Paul Zimet reflects on a trip to Hungary for the Dunapart3 Festival.
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Modern Dance Is Not A Pyramid Scheme: Tere O’ Connor Responds
Culturebot on DanceUSA’s e-journal article “Is American Modern Dance a Pyramid Scheme?” Part I
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SEDIMENTS OF AN ORDINARY MIND
This text was originally commissioned by Weld Company, Stockholm as part of their ongoing process to rediscover, reevaluate, and update the format of the Dance Company. Dancers and choreographers from different backgrounds share a common, daily and physical practice, raising questions on dance and choreography. In 2013 Michael Klien was invited to situate Sediments of…