Festivals – Page 2

Escaping the Exotic: Finding New Common Ground with the Middle East

Festival profile: Director Natasja van ’t Westende talks about Dancing on the Edge, a Dutch festival focusing on performers from the Middle East and North Africa.

BOSSS – an essay on the site-specific and one person’s contemplation of realness

An essay response to the Big Outdoor Site-Specific Stuff Festival (Oct. 23-25, 2015)

Sarah A.O. Rosner & Lydia Mokdessi talk ETLE UNIVERSE

“Does art actually DO anything? That’s very nestled into my concept of time travel.”

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.

CRIPFEST @ BAM

Celebrate, agitate, generate! Artists mark the 25th Anniversary of the ADA with more deformity than in Bradley Cooper’s worst nightmares. This revolution will not be telethon-ised, you have to see it live!
—Mat Fraser, curator of CripFest