Festivals – Page 2

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.

February 25, 2016

Together in Sadness: Ligia Lewis’ “Sorrow Swag”

I spit on your happiness! You are all dogs! D-A-W-G-Z dogs!

January 20, 2016

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.

January 20, 2016

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.

December 11, 2015

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)

November 2, 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.”

September 22, 2015

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 […]

September 12, 2015

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

August 6, 2015