Category: First Person
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 start of their hour-long duet Monchichi, presented at BAM October 12-15, however,…
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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.
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Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Artists Respond
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Daily Life, Everlasting Nonsense
I saw Witness Relocation’s Daily Life Everlasting by Charles Mee at LaMama. Then I wrote a poem.
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Looking for Work in All the Wrong Places Or: How I Stopped Believing in Unicorns and Learned to Ride a Horse
Alexander Leslie Thompson on un/under/semi-employment and the power of community.
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DANCE AS POLITICAL REFUGE
Michael Kliën on dancing on Hydra
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Goodbye To All That, For Now
Andy reflects on leaving New York.
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Seen and Heard In San Francisco
Andy reports from San Francisco