There are those cultural events that feel too good to be true " many stars align to create a perfectly satisfying contribution, almost all-encompassing in its thoughtoutness.
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
There is an insidious thrum of accelerated timelines smashing together at the messy intersection of computational expansiveness, human fear, militaristic state intervention and governmental …
Pain has been felt in the halls of Balanchine's house, but joy and beauty exist too. Neither outweighs the other.
Stevens and Treadway gravitate towards original plays that, like WAR DREAMER, look at extreme human behavior and have an experimental edge
Livestream the Chocolate Factory's memorial event Monday, Feb. 6 at 5:30pm eastern
There is no audience. There is a community and you're connected to the community and you're not playing to the audience. There happens to be an audience and they're looking through a keyhole…
Something was exhumed on the stage that night" what it was still haunts me.
Heading into BAM's Fishman Space for Ontroerend Goed, part of the Public's 2023 Under the Radar Festival, felt like finally getting to a long-delayed date. I'd been looking forward to catchi…
...embodies what I'll describe as a challengingly lateral Death-drive dramaturgy...
The discomfort of navigating precarity is not merely a state of being, but more truthfully, a continuous fact of life.
600 Highwaymen's "A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly" is one of 2022's most remarkable works of theater.
Sifting through that experience over time we keep finding ourselves holding out our hands, cupped, like we had caught a firefly. It's the gesture that says we too received a gift.
Let us, then, be the dreamers of the empty space between repetitions that sows fertile soil for difference and kinship.
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 witness…
Rehearsing it felt like having conversations with a ghost. Jacob from 4 years ago still has something to say to Jacob now. Jacob will always be becoming Jacob.
Waves crashed on the sand and ambient beats wafted from the DJ tent. Rainbow flags marked a sacred circle on the beach: beyond the luxurious summer homes and expensive restaurants, a brave q…
For us, the dancers translate a shared archive into movement.
I hope Putin understands "Fuck War" in not only Russian, but Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian as well.
maura re/members with george emilio sanchez's "In the Court of the Conquerer" & zavé martohardjono's "TERRITORY: the Island Remembers"
"...one dancer's hands on the foreheads of the other two, leading the paths of their movement; a dancer leaning on another who was kneeling on the floor, using them as an anchor, stability; …
Question everything. Laugh often. And be proud as peacocks, amoebas and hominids"you're alive, and it's June!
If performance is an intersection between the realness of live embodiment and the fantastical suspension of reality, then this is true performance.
I put my arms around the dry branches, sunk my face between the needles. I remembered holding you like this before you left. I remembered when we did this without thinking.
I'm interested in setting myself as big a challenge as I can when I'm writing, saying to myself, "How can I love you?"