Creating New Futures: A Statement in Solidarity with Emily Johnson & Calls to Action
I hope the more arts workers and others share these stories, the more clear and obvious the focus on change becomes. —Emily Johnson
Category Archives: Points of View
John Gutierrez’s view from Miguel Gutierrez’s “This Bridge Called My Ass”
John Gutierrez writes from inside “This Bridge Called My Ass” from Miguel Gutierrez
in spite of safety and comfort: Perforations Festival round up
Perforations Festival brings us into direct responsibility for the execution of artistic ideas and challenges the passive stasis of sideline observation in a mostly successful series of performances that ripped apart conventional norms.
Downtown Icons, Non-Consenual Relationships with Ghosts, & Passages
Someday, if the Earth survives this oligarchy’s drive to suck the life out of her and us, historians, archivists, and survivors will share stories of the work being made in “this era.” 1 Panel & 2 shows.
The Dump (or Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest): He’s Our President, He’s Our Problem at La MaMa
On Presidents Day in The Club at La MaMa, Nicky Paraiso gathered a packed house of artists and audience members for an evening of protest, stories, songs, dances, reveries and resistance as part of “Bad and Nasty” Performance Protests.
Monchichi @ BAM
Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez, of Wang Ramirez, are often presented as cross-cultural navigators, both in their performance styles and in their personal lives. Wang is a Korean-German dancer with training in martial arts, ballet, and hip-hop, while Ramirez is a French-Spanish B-boy. From the
Congregation of Survival – Lost and Found Platform continues
How will we ever go back after the planting that guest curator Eva Yaa Asentawaa sowed during last week’s “the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds?”
Down on the ground and out on the streets: towards cultural equity
Everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society. – from Americans for the Arts: Statement on Cultural Equity On Saturday evening, as part of Bridging: A French-American Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion in
Furious Capitalism or Fascist Consumerism: Notes from “Pylade”
Maura Donohue reflects on the political relevance of La Mama’s production of “Pylade” in NYC and on tour in Europe.
The Radical Pleasure of Convening: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko & anonymous bodies’ “Imaging Justice for the Dark Divine” and beyond
“…the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing.”
The NEA at 50 and The Death of the Public Good
“When are we artists and when are we everyone?” The answer, of course, is that artists are always everyone, we are members of a greater Public, and it is in acknowledging this that artists can create change.
Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Artists Respond