Category: Interviews
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Rafika Chawishe: The Body as a Theatrical, Political Instrument
While there is a great intensity that comes with Chaiwshe, there is almost a child-like wonder that dictates her practice.
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After The Connelly’s Closure: A Conversation with Julia Greer on The Hearth’s Displaced Commission RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR
“It couldn’t happen here” was the reaction most theater-goers had to the news of the closing of the East Village’s The Connelly Theater by the building’s landlord: The Roman Catholic […]
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Gaps and Loops: Richard Foreman in conversation with Travis Just and Kara Feely (Object Collection)
Richard: Loops are mankind’s greatest invention. [laughs]
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Embodied Intersections: Theatre, Dance, and the Art of Transformation in Testing²
“When a piece lingers for a few days, you realize it had an effect on you.”
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“Sharing space, for me, is everything”: Modesto “Flako” Jimenez’s Mercedes, Part 1, December 3-8 at BAM
“There’s that reminder of the essence of what a show can do to people that are not from that world of theatre. It’s beautiful.”
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Unplanned Relevancy: Jonathan Spector on The Broadway Premiere of “Eureka Day” at Manhattan Theatre Club
Trump’s second presidency will change our lives, though the details of how are not yet clear. This was on playwright Jonathan Spector’s mind the morning of November 8th ahead of […]
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An (Accessible) Trojan Woman
…this radical idea that we take care of our own species, you know? Our own species! When I say it doesn’t have to be this way, it really doesn’t. It’s our choice.
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Weird and Wonderful: A Conversation with Jaclyn Biskup about Lucky Breaks at The Brick
As an artist, I can always give space or voice to something that I want people to be thinking about. The humanity of Ukrainians is one of the things I want people to be thinking about.
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What is a liberated body? “Talking” Exorcism = Liberation with Yanira Castro
An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro’s Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day.
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On Porous Artistic Designations: In Conversation with Tess Howsam, Culture Lab LIC’s Artistic Director
One of the miraculous things about New York City is how much goes on without your ever knowing about it. Every day a piece of art is made, a performance […]
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Looking Through the Window with Mur
Mur shows up at the Murray Hill coffee shop in an outfit streaked with multicolored paint and a gift for me still drying in their hand. The performance artist […]
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On the Possibility of Life in Contemporary Performance: A Conversation with Audrée Juteau
Audrée Juteau’s methods are fungal. She is breaking down detritus in our societal soil and making it into art. Dance is the mushroom in Mystic-Informatic, which Audrée and her human […]