DEVOTION DEVOTION at the Exponential Festival: Process Conversation with Lydia Mokdessi
This body unfurls in slow motion, leaving ample space for labels, classifications, and archetypes to land upon her and vanish.
Category Archives: Dance
Martine Gutierrez’s CIRCLE at Performance Space New York
I start to explain something about artistic agency over visual archives of original work but all that comes out is I guess we’re all in trouble.
Opening space for the inexplicable: loveconductors and ghoul|take III
The work is the group; the group is the work. It is an antidote to work that devalues the human. The individual is decentralized, but not devalued.
mayfield brooks and Alec Duffy in conversation
There is no preaching to the choir when it comes to considering reparations, because there is no choir. It’s a lonely act.
Ellen Cornfield and Brian McCormick in Conversation
They saw, “formalism with flair, and flights of fancy. Quirky, rhythmic, gestural phrases woven into broadly abstract works with exciting choreography. Cute moments that hint at a story.”
Schoen Movement Company and Elena Hecht in Conversation
Maybe the political statement is that it’s not political. We can exist together, we can live together, without it being some message or some signpost in the sand, some marker of who you are.
Generative moments in fragmented view: a collage // “very peak summer solstice” at ISSUE Project Room
The artistic spaces that once housed me hurt me, causing tremendous trauma. This project—the second installment of “soft bodies in hard places,” “very peak summer solstice”—was a haven.
Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum in conversation
There is a general consensus that this moment can’t restore power to a people who aren’t in the room. But perhaps it can deflate the confidence of a narrative that props up those in power?
Feeling Sound
Two pieces that delve into ideas surrounding worship and identity: Angie Pittman’s “Came Up in a Lonely Castle” and Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDProjectNYC’s “Process memoir 4: The word, the spirit, and Little Rock.”
Everything is there where you got nothing left. Dan Safer at La MaMa Moves, finally.
Dan Safer is the devil you’ve been dying to dance with and Ae Andrea’s enviable lines and swag make them an optimal fiend friend for that card.
floating a queer celestial in Ni’Ja Whitson’s “Oba Qween Baba King Baba”
Ni’Ja Whitson queers divine kingdoms with cosmological meetings amidst a swirl of lineage, legacies and streaming star scapes. Salve.
The world according to Nicky: “now my hand is ready for my heart” at La MaMa
After over a decade hiatus in making work, with “now my hand is ready for my heart” downtown icon, Nicky Paraiso gushes forth while looking back on several lived lives in Nickyworld.