Category: Live Art
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Kayla Farrish in Three Conversations
Kayla Farrish shared two new works, A Beast and DOCILE, at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s Black Box Theatre
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Enacting Immersion: Audiences ACT UP in David Wise´s Immersive FIGHT BACK!
Outside the LGBT Community Center, it was August 18, 2025, but as soon as I stepped into Room 101, I went back in time. People were wearing black t-shirts with […]
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In FOR MORGAN, Nicky Paraiso Remembers and Reminds Us That Art Is Dangerous
As he stepped up to his piano at the beginning of For Morgan, Nicky Paraiso looked out the intimate audience at Pangea restaurant. “It feels like family in here,” he […]
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Noa Weiss on AMERICAN IDLE by Maia Chao choreographed by Lena Engelstein
People perform for their phones, people perform for each other. We continue to watch.
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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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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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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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The Room Where It Happens (The Room Being Your Head or, the Phenomenology of Neurodiversity in Performance)
The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre’s “The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes” at REDCAT
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“When The End Becomes The Beginning:” Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born’s adaku part 1: the road opens
Adaku’s forced departure forever alters her connection to reality — she is absorbed into the unknown, which marks the start of our inquiry. Her trauma, epistemically, is our starting point.
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James Allister Sprang at Baryshnikov Arts: Seeking Active “Rest Within the Wake”
Active reflection and associations should comprise our meditative state. If there were moments during the piece that disturbed us, we should return to the breathing exercise to find calm.
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The Chaos Porn of Gelitin, Young Boy Dancing Group, and Alex Tatarsky
we come to performance to watch people get wrecked and wreck each other in a simulated way, while remaining in the comfort of our own private spectatorship
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Sha Creative Outlet: XS at The Center at West Park
Like a giant notebook portfolio or a crumpled map in the glove box of a borrowed car, the paper endures, holds the changes, shows the history of Sha and Sarah’s togetherness— and our witnessing of that togetherness.