“Lucky Star: superstar” at the (online) Exponential Festival
Fact and fiction, inseparable, blur and tease. Cut to disco ball, still swinging. Slow down and watch the air sparkle.
Category Archives: Festivals
Three Days Kaleidoscoping at NACL
What was I doing? Why was I here? What had I hoped to achieve from this? So many people I didn’t know! Communal living having its obvious benefits, but not that easy to suddenly just find one’s self there in the thick of it.
In Which A Booking Cancellation At The New Ohio Creates Space For Radical Community Recalibration: #AmericanAF
To attend is to remind yourself how much we miss by relying on established institutions to deliver us our culture, pre-curated and mixed just so, on whatever silver platter they might have recently polished.
The Chronic Pleasure of Creating Queer Spaces
She mourns and then she is fully present, looking right through you, dancing with abandon.
Festival profile: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver
Festivals like PuSh are much more sensitive and responsive to what is really happening in the world than most city theatres are. Festivals are free to focus on the right artistic priorities.
Sebastian Matthias’ x / groove space @ Tanz im August Berlin
Somehow the party didn’t catch. Something better than a party followed.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
There’s something inherently destabilizing (and super fun) when particular performance genres are encountered out of their habitual, safe havens.
BAAD!: Showcasing the Bronx Culture Cauldron
BAAD!’s new Gothic home feels like a cross between a theater, a studio and an inn.
Mothership of a Fleet of Festivals: My First Under the Radar
Festival profile: Under the Radar, New York
IN>TIME Performance Festival, Taking Up Residence in Chicago
The IN>TIME Performance Festival continues through March 2nd at various venues throughout Chicago, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Links Hall, 6018 North, and Sector 2337. Full details can be found at in-time-performance.org.
Together in Sadness: Ligia Lewis’ “Sorrow Swag”
I spit on your happiness! You are all dogs! D-A-W-G-Z dogs!
Past Versions of the Present Future in niv Acosta’s DISCOTROPIC
One of the great gifts science fiction can give us is the memory of how many times we’ve been spectacularly, beautifully mistaken.