Category: Dance
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.”
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How to Dance out of the Past and into the Present in Bill T. Jones Still/Here.
Dances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new […]
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Toying with Irony in Volta Collective’s SALT
In SALT, a semi-interactive dance-theater work by Los Angeles-based Volta Collective, director-choreographer Mamie Green and writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells take on Euripides’s Medea. But, instead of featuring a […]
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Performing the Palimpsest: Electric Blue and Naked Vanguard at La MaMa Moves!
Some performances can bring back the dead. Through references and recordings, through revivals and reenactments, they channel the spirit of the artists and choreography they cite and call upon […]
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Binging to Bliss in “Bodhisattva Beer Run”
A golden age is brewing for AAPI contemporary performance[i] with Glenn Potter-Takata and evan ray suzuki serving as crafty “kodama” (木霊, 木魂 or 木魅) leading us through the forest to refreshing springs of compositional bliss.