Category: Dance
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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 show, the first of Danspace Project´s 50th season, but tonight feels more like a reunion, a gathering of old friends. It’s 7:15, the event was…
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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 New York City Ballet. In Bartok Ballet, her second commission for the company, Tanowitz breaks convention by sending a dancer– in this performance ballerina Miriam…
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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 progressed. “No, I haven’t,” their counterpart replied. “Oh! Well, welcome to Judson.” There is a reverence to gathering around work at Judson Memorial Church,…
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When The Story Lies Between The Steps: Moment to Moment in “The Suite” by Julia Antinozzi
The Suite is by Julia Antinozzi and co-presented by Live Artery | New York Live Arts and Triskelion Arts. Throughout The Suite, a story of requited yet restrained love unfolds between the Poet (Dasol Kim) and a Sleepwalker (Kelsey Sauliner). The two develop a tenderness matched by the duty and devotion of The Divertissement pair…
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A Very Serious Unserious Dance and Some Rigorous Instructions for (Queer) Joy?
Theo Armstrong describes some cool moves and asks Noa Rui-Piin Weiss and Miranda Brown some silly yet probing questions after seeing !!simon says~~!:));)$$ Presented as part of the Out-FRONT! Festival 2025 by Pioneers Go East Collective in partnership with BAM and Judson Church The dancers lie on the floor. As Noa and Miranda lie on…
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Reckoning without Redress, jill sigman/thinkdance, Re-Seeding (Encounter #4: The Seamstress) in Pioneers Go East Collective’s Out-FRONT Fest
In a moment characterized by decay, destruction, and despair, it feels peculiar to find oneself in a place characterized by warmth, communion, and creativity. Out-FRONT! Fest., a week-long program of queer and feminist dance and performance produced by Pioneers Go East Collective, offers an approach to thinking through and being in the present that exists…
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Jade Manns + Glenn Potter-Takata: A Shared Evening
A palm resting against each balloon surface, this was a gesture of care, of protection.
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What happens in the pause? PAGEANT Presents: Cavity by Amelia Heintzelman with Dorothy Carlos
Last November, after dancing together in Alexa West’s Occasion, occasion, occasion at the 2023 Performa Biennial, Amelia Hientzelman asked me if I’d like to do some dramaturgy for her. We sat at a bar in Ridgewood and had a conversation, most of which I have forgotten, but I do remember her saying when creating dance,…
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Prairie Dawn by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s Prairie Dawn premiered at Roulette in Brooklyn on November 14th, 2024. This is a Black cis man’s interpretation of their work.
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Embodied Intersections: Theatre, Dance, and the Art of Transformation in Testing²
“When a piece lingers for a few days, you realize it had an effect on you.”