Category: Etcetera
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Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel @ BAC
Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel X Melissa Levin
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Ella Rothschild @ BAC
Ella Rothschild X Melissa Levin
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DEVOTION DEVOTION at the Exponential Festival: Process Conversation with Lydia Mokdessi
This body unfurls in slow motion, leaving ample space for labels, classifications, and archetypes to land upon her and vanish.
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12 Shows that Totally Ruled Charles Quittner’s 2019
From nightclubs, to rehearsal studios, I found dynamic perspectives and delicious new forms in the many shows I was lucky enough to catch in NYC this year.
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Ann Liv Young’s Home Theater
Want to take out your phone and text? Please, I dare you, and I hope I’m there to see what happens. Maybe Young will want to take a selfie, or share your photos, or throw your phone out the window. Anything could happen.
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Opening space for the inexplicable: loveconductors and ghoul|take III
The work is the group; the group is the work. It is an antidote to work that devalues the human. The individual is decentralized, but not devalued.
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mayfield brooks and Alec Duffy in conversation
There is no preaching to the choir when it comes to considering reparations, because there is no choir. It’s a lonely act.
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Generative moments in fragmented view: a collage // “very peak summer solstice” at ISSUE Project Room
The artistic spaces that once housed me hurt me, causing tremendous trauma. This project—the second installment of “soft bodies in hard places,” “very peak summer solstice”—was a haven.
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Interview with Haleh Roshan, Playwright of Corkscrew Festival’s COLLECTIVE NOUN
Essentially I, a poststructuralist rhetoric nerd, thought, I’m trying to write a play about the failures of all those other “girls” stories to reflect the real “girls” I know, and that word is so fucking insufficient, but I don’t have another word for these women.
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Feeling Sound
Two pieces that delve into ideas surrounding worship and identity: Angie Pittman’s “Came Up in a Lonely Castle” and Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDProjectNYC’s “Process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock.”
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Pride, Prejudice and Temptation
“Ain’t Too Proud” is more than just a jukebox musical.
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Readying Above and Below: “revolutionary new moon in aquarius” at ISSUE Project Room
And, yet, we are here, re-fashioning community and remaining soft in a building of stone. The monuments are crumbling. We can take an ax to their base or let them dissolve to the dust of their origin story.