Category: Responses
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The Hearth’s “RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR” : Where Words Sooth, Erode, and Attempt to Remedy
Windows down. Music blasting. The wind in your hair. Exit signs, strange billboards, a succession of identical-looking sleepy little Midwestern towns. A clutch of empty 40s and tequila bottles clinking against one another in the passenger seat. The stench of old vomit. A pounding headache. The sinking feeling that your life is not working out…
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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 sat at a bar in Ridgewood and had a conversation, most of which I have forgotten, but I do remember her saying when creating dance,…
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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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“Sharing space, for me, is everything”: Modesto “Flako” Jimenez’s Mercedes, Part 1, December 3-8 at BAM
“There’s that reminder of the essence of what a show can do to people that are not from that world of theatre. It’s beautiful.”
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Between Impulse and Action: Adam Linder’s “Mothering the Tongue”
Through recursion, the same body and mind, guided by the same lived experiences, encounters, and shares, new truths.
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Freedom from the Spaces, Places, and Plastics that Bind
I’d forgotten one more meaning of “free”: without cost. Parodoxically, though, freedom, as “Quartiers libres” viscerally illustrates, is expensive.
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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 context, it appears as a product of its present, rather than the moment it was first choreographed. Bill T. Jones’s 1994 multi-media dance piece Still/Here,…
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Pure Vinegar in “Honeyland”
I spent the two hours after leaving Honeyland thinking about how it could be rewritten into a passable show. It was a frustrating task. What should one do with a musical whose surface goes no deeper than a 1960s Wikipedia page? The show, which transferred to Off-Broadway’s Triad Theater from an original run in…
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Memory in Motion: DD Dorvillier at the Chocolate Factory
The open-ended question lingered throughout the next hour as Dorvillier shifted between stillness and barely controlled, sprawling movements. What if I tried this? What if this has happened before?
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In “Cellino v. Barnes” Inside Knowledge is Too Essential
The ‘Cellino v. Barnes’ play ads have been almost as inescapable as their real-life inspirations in recent months. Facebook and Instagram have become virtual billboards with plastered actors across the screen in mock legal commercials declaring that you, the onlooker, have been ‘served.’ It’s only fitting. The Ross Cellino and Steven Barnes that most…
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“Αγρίμι/Fauve”: Lenio Kaklea’s Choreographic Reflections on the Wild
A dissonant electronic score blares along. The no-holding-back moves highlight the untamed and unrestrained nature of the virtual sphere, where everything is performed, and everyone is exposed.