7 Names: Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders @ BAC
7 Names: Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders X Benedict Nguyen
Category Archives: Music
Amir ElSaffar @ BAC
Amir ElSaffar X Melissa Levin
Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel @ BAC
Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel X Melissa Levin
Joseph Keckler and Ariana Reines in Conversation
There’s a genial kind of, I don’t know, Brechtian disruption going on when you hurl that sound at people. They just lose their shit and do not know what to do with themselves. It is somehow a punk rock gesture.
Shapeshifters: Black Queer Land(ing) at Gibney Dance
mayfield brooks, jumatatu m. poe, and the I Moving Lab are part of aa three-week series conceived and curated by Marýa Wethers at Gibney Dance highlighted “intersections and crossroads among Blackness, queerness, and Indigeneity.”
Bearing Witness To A Dragon-Slayer In The Body Of A Waif: Heather Christian’s ANIMAL WISDOM
She exists, she conjures, she illuminates through whisper and scream.
Entering the Fifth Dimension: Yanira Castro’s STAGE
Its in-betweenness, like the liminal space of “not me…not not me,” grants us the ability to be in two places at once.
Swimming in a Sea of Plastic: “Tides Project: Drowning Planet/Disposable Bodies” at La MaMa Moves
George Emilio Sanchez offers a rumination on Culturebot’s Maura Donohue’s recent work at La MaMa
Citizens and Discontent: Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel
Christmas in Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel prove dancing and singing are practices of resilence and resistance.
The Building Show: Cathy Weis
With an impending Developer-in-Chief and First Son-in-Law eager to tear down historic buildings for the sake of more real estate profits, the preservation of buildings like 537 Broadway become essential. Kudos to Cathy for bringing it forward as the centerpiece and star of her latest work.
All of the history on our backs: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
They fucked us good.
Yesterday Tomorrow, a response
Three singers sit on three couches; they each occupy their own. They wear nice fitting clothing in gentle colors and matching mukluks, the kind you can order on Amazon. The couches are in sad shades of brown, and I realize for the first time how