Category: Interviews
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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 the Broadway debut of his play Eureka Day. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro at Manhattan Theatre Club, the play, set in 2018 in a progressive Berkeley…
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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 is rehearsed and mounted, or a writer sits to start what could be their magnum opus. That feeling– of joyous frenzy– that creation is both…
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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 is best known for their musical song cycles – their most recent performances Angels of the Air and Salamanders of the Fire will be combined…
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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 co-creators Zoey Gauld, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, and Ellen Furey presented in its US premiere on June 8th at Abrons Arts Center as part of the 2024…
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A Conversation with Architectural Historian and Balletomane Thomas Mellins on “Excellence and Innovation: New York City Ballet at 75”
I’ve always known that the David H Koch Theater, once known as The New York State Theater, was made to George Balanchine’s specifications. Still, until sitting down to speak with Thomas Mellins, New Yorker, urban and architectural historian, and professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, I never realized how intentionally Philip Johnson’s…
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In Conversation with Cam Cronin on Geraldine Realigned At The Brick Theater: Scrappiness, Gayborhoods, and a Close Collaboration with Billy McEntee.
Geraldine Realigned Drives from Gay Place to Gay Place and You’re in the Car Too ostensibly follows a drag queen, Geraldine, on a road trip working her way through a list of great American gayborhoods (Austin, Texas and Asbury Park, New Jersey). However, performer Cam Cronin and his co-creator Billy McEntee, friends since college, use…