Category: Etcetera
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The Alchemy of Small Groups (Part 6 of 6)
If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?
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From Storefront to Stadium
That time I saw Nirvana in 1991. Or, what happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
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ON HOLDING AND (UN)LOCKING: CHOREOGRAPHING THE IRISH DANCE ARCHIVE IN Jean Butler’s What We Hold
There is a photograph of my grandad and three of his brothers taken in Dublin in the early 1930s; the brothers stand in a row and pose with their arms firmly placed by their sides or their hands on their hips. They wear what are known as “hard shoes” in Irish dance, made of black…
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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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Retrospect: Concert of Propositional Music at University of Illinois
Being a witness of many of the referenced breakthroughs, Rosenboom, the pioneer of brainwave music, embodied the spirit of the legacy we aspired to dust off.
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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 know how things are, I know what life is like, I know everybody’s busy so here’s the TLDR bullet point version of major takeaways on…
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SIGHTLINES: Amanda Hameline and Wendell Gray II
Two choreographers navigate the strangeness of the stage in works developed through a new residency in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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No Dance Schools in Anatevka: Fidler Afn Dakh’s Staś Kmieć interviewed by Hallie Chametzky
There is no audience. There is a community and you’re connected to the community and you’re not playing to the audience. There happens to be an audience and they’re looking through a keyhole and seeing this unique culture and its traditions and its dances and community, speaking in a language they don’t know.
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Acheron: Brutal and Brilliant at New Ohio
Two figures approach each other. They could be brothers, countrymen, mortal enemies. In a world obsessed with borders, they are fundamentally different and dangerously similar.
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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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Preview: “Departure Study of Mother/land Fabric” presented by The Exponential Festival, filmed at The Brick Theater
What is the body if not your closest, most concrete tie to blood lineage? It’s a mirror, a translation, a vessel for parallels and repetition across oceans and decades.