Category: Responses
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The Following Evening, A Year Later
In 2024, Talking Band and 600 Highwaymen presented “The Following Evening” at PACNYC. Here are some thoughts after a year’s reflection.
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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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On Failing Better: Object Collection’s “Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey, an Embodied Homage to Richard Foreman
“Suppose beautiful Madeline Harvey” This single phrase, sometimes a question, always invocation, is repeated by three characters. In altering shapes, the words capture the essence of Object Collection’s Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey, Richard Foreman’s final performed text, directed and adapted for the stage by Kara Feely with a live score composed by Travis Just.…
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“The Light and The Dark: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi” at 59E59 Theatres
For Kate Hamill, the stage is more than a space for spectacle; it’s a platform for rewriting history, reclaiming agency, and redefining how we see women in both art and life.
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![Matthew Gasda’s “Dimes Square [manhattan edition]” is the Party You Maybe Want to Attend](https://www.culturebot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-24-at-10.02.11 AM-600x400.png)
Matthew Gasda’s “Dimes Square [manhattan edition]” is the Party You Maybe Want to Attend
Dimes Square, technically a microneighborhood of Manhattan between Chinatown and the Lower East Side, is renowned for its particular cultural attributes: an overpopulation of twenty-one-year-old recent graduates of liberal arts college and an underpopulation of anyone who’s ever worked a service job. But to define Dimes Square doesn’t do it justice: it may exist in…