Category: Dance
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Piercing the Veil: Jesse Zaritt & Pamela Pietro and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd at La MaMa Moves!
The other day, I watched a subway dancer fall. Backflipping between metal rails, his hand slipped and he crashed back-first to the floor. For a moment, the train was still. […]
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El Club MEG: La MaMa Goes Post-Postmodern
The vibe was very: here we are in the midst of a fascist coup, what is left to fear? Lots, obviously. But the old obsessions with boundaries and criticism are too much to carry now.
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La Mama Moves: How Do You Feel? While Nature Duels with Technology, Dance Contends with Its History and Future
As artificial intelligence takes over the world, many artists seem primed to abandon their inhibitions and experiment with the latest innovations. Concordance between art and technology is harder to imagine […]
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On This Turnless Page: LOVE ALONE ANTHOLOGY PROJECT at La Mama
Before seeing this performance, I had never heard of gay writer and AIDS activist Paul Monette. Despite living through the AIDS crisis, choreographer Keith A. Thompson hadn’t heard of him […]
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Dear Kayla Farrish, Burn it Down! At Least the Ashes Will Enrich the Earth
Imagine being told that what you have just experienced did not actually happen the way you experienced it, that it was actually just a collection of dissonant apparitions created by your own strained need to link unrelated events together.
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Miya Shaffer on “I Feel Like You Don’t Trust Me” by TAQ Dance
These haptic qualities enable the audience an imagined point of entry into the onstage sensations, inviting vicarious feeling of the braided hair, the waxiness of plant fronds, the lightness of linen clothing against bare skin.
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In ANGEL VISITS Worship and Communion Traverse The Divine
If we are to honestly appraise the people’s history (those we refer to when we shout “power to the people!”), we must acknowledge the unceasing, if ever-evolving, presence of violence. […]
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Thank You, Steve.
“There he is.” Nicky Paraiso is sitting next to me and wants me to look at something on his phone. Ostensibly, we´re here at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery to see a […]
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Ghost Porn by Brendan Drake
Like fear, desire can be excessive, often humorous, and represents a valuable state in itself — a totality of the sensation in which personal and social histories persist, and new insight can emerge.
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“hope organ” takes on politicizing shame and dance synesthesia
Which I think says something meaningful about fantasy; materials become less messy and people become more one-dimensional and places become infinitely reachable and the perfect temperature in our minds.
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Trying Too Hard
There are few things as infuriating as watching a choreographer attempt and fail at being original. I have often had this feeling while watching the work of Pam Tanowitz for […]
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Arriving at The Place Where Healing Can Happen: Stuart B Meyers & Blaze Ferrer in Out-FRONT! Fest.
“Have you been here before?” I heard someone behind me ask, as we climbed the back staircase at Judson Memorial Church. We paused on nearly each stair as the line […]