Category: Interdisciplinary
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Gathering at the Table
Maya Bushell on VOLTA Collective’s DIS-ORDER: a reimagining of a Passover Seder presented at LA’s Skirball Center.
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Into The Clown Car
Photojournalist Cassidy Jones on Brooklyn’s 3 Dollar Bill second annual Clown Car event.
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Thinking About Scales of Space and Time Differently: An Interview with Emily Johnson & Kai Recollet, The Minds Behind The Kinstillatory Fires
In mid May, I sat down with choreographer Emily Johnson and scholar Kai Recollet to discuss their ongoing “kinstillatory fires” project—gatherings that bridge dance, decolonial practices, Indigenous kinship, care, and […]
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The Wind in Alethea Pace’s BETWEEN WAVE AND WATER: A Review and Reflection.
For a story honoring the history within the water, I am struck by the wind. It’s 12:30 pm on a breezy Saturday afternoon in the Bronx. The days leading up […]
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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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The Devastation of A Frustrated Dream: Micaela Fariña and Gonzalo Quintana’s La consagración de nadie (Unsuccessful)
A few weeks ago I got a gig working the book table at BODY/SHADOW, a Douglas Dunn + Dancers performance at Judson Church. In preparation I perused the books– all […]
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In GOD ARE YOU THERE? MAYBE IT’S ME. The Black Performer Becomes Sisyphus
My performance practice has been affectionately described by a mentor as sisyphean–cyclical, futile, pointless and yet entirely necessary. Necessary for what-and-whom? I ask. As punishment for his crimes, Sisyphus was […]
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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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Father/Parent, Mother/Father: Imaging the Possibility of Both in Kelindah Bee Schuster’s “seapony”
The audience sits on sand while an artist simulates giving birth. Each one of their limbs dunked in a separate bucket of water, jutted in a prone crabwalk position, they […]
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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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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.
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Storyletting: drawing forth ephemera from “the depths, not the sunken place”
This iteration of the work, presented as part of the Underground Uptown Festival’s Works and Process at the Guggenheim, was segmented to create discourse around the creative process. I can only describe my experience as profound.