Category: Feature
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Scraps and Slots
Playwright Ben Gassman on Christina Masciotti’s new play LIBERTY SCRAP running at Culture Lab LIC until March 29th.
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Anne Imhof “DOOM: House of Hope” at Park Avenue Armory
It’s very easy to feel small, to feel helpless. But even in the midst of this dark time, we have the capacity to be present with each other, and through caring for each other when we are in pain, suffering, and fearful, to redeem ourselves and our sinful world.
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Gaps and Loops: Richard Foreman in conversation with Travis Just and Kara Feely (Object Collection)
Richard: Loops are mankind’s greatest invention. [laughs]
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The Inner-Inarticulate of KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA
Through their inner-experience, we see that the women’s profound losses and fears are surrounded by decidedly mundane and glancing frustrations – the very kind that eat away at all of our sense of agency but are the stuff of the everyday absurd
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Kinding Sindaw Shines a Light on History
Complexity often frightens people from engaging with the critical context and history that informs our current realities. So, what you will read is [not] complex. It is current and quite easy to understand: Colonizing powers have a problem with Indigeneity.
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The Theater(s)We Need Now
Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I […]
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Queer Joy on the Beach
Waves crashed on the sand and ambient beats wafted from the DJ tent. Rainbow flags marked a sacred circle on the beach: beyond the luxurious summer homes and expensive restaurants, a brave queer oasis for experimental art emerged.
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Learning With and From Baltic artists in the Shadow of the War on Ukraine
I hope Putin understands “Fuck War” in not only Russian, but Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian as well.
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Harmonic Convergences at La MaMa Moves! 2021
A dominating thread of grief and healing wound its way through La MaMa Moves! 2021 and most of the artists brought song and storytelling into a festival that, as curator Nicky Paraiso acknowledged was full of resilient artists “making work that is essential and true to this pivotal moment in time.”
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A Dramaturgy of Elliot B. Quick
Elliot spent his career looking for the meaning of this elusive concept [of dramaturgy], and with the following we attempt to honor him and continue his quest by articulating what Elliot’s dramaturgy meant to us, his many collaborators and friends.
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Creating New Futures: A Statement in Solidarity with Emily Johnson & Calls to Action
I hope the more arts workers and others share these stories, the more clear and obvious the focus on change becomes. —Emily Johnson
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Black Dance Stories with Cynthia Oliver and Marjani Forté-Saunders
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It’s a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversations you once shared over drinks, plus powerful sentiments you’re overhearing now at BLM protests.