Responses – Culturebot

Being Together: A Response to PASSAGE THRU

PASSAGE THRU feels like stepping through a portal, a fable we get to participate in alongside the performers.

Bree Breeden in Lucky Star by Pioneers Go East Collective - photo by Jon Burklund

“Lucky Star: superstar” at the (online) Exponential Festival

Fact and fiction, inseparable, blur and tease. Cut to disco ball, still swinging. Slow down and watch the air sparkle.

What Do You Miss? Reflections on KAREN, I SAID

Eliza Bent is about as close to a recognizable brand as you can get in downtown theater land (I say this in a good way) – she has a specific and winning skewed sensibility and a propensity for characters, which I assumed would not be overly diminished by the Zoom platform.

Out of An Abundance of Caution Volume 27, The Brick Theater (Live on Twitch)

And then, time reversed itself.

Noa Weiss on Netta Yerushalmy’s “Distance Dance Demonstration”

We sit like middle schoolers at lunch, cliques separated by social barriers. People chat. “Did you get the job?” “The one at TikTok? No, it was a no. They said they’re on a hiring freeze.”

Black Dance Stories with Cynthia Oliver and Marjani Forté-Saunders

Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It’s a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversations you once shared over drinks, plus powerful sentiments you’re overhearing now at BLM protests.

Black Dance Stories with Jamar Roberts and Tiffany Rae-Fisher

Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It’s a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversations you once shared over drinks, plus powerful sentiments you’re overhearing now at BLM protests.