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And then, time reversed itself.
We sit like middle schoolers at lunch, cliques separated by social barriers. People chat. "Did you get the job?" "The one at TikTok? No, it was a no. They said they're on a hiring freeze."
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It's a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversat…
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It's a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversat…
The timeless, classic Cubana Rican performance artist stand-up comic Marga Gomez leans into her fears and at large: the pitfalls of friendship and failed perseverance that bog down all of hu…
Re-examining the words these artists shared with me about the show on March 7, I was struck by the resonance of their work in the liminal fever dream that is our current reality. At this unc…
2:10 p.m. A quick update"the organizers of the Howlround panel this evening have also launched an online resource, COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources, containing important information fo…
Documenting the performances affected by COVID-19
so much of how I felt about my body, so much of how I felt about like girlhood as a collective, everything that I felt about femaleness, came from the choir room
Coop seeks to remind us that we are here, together, and that "the piles of things we've forgotten" are scattered everywhere around us.
At the time I was obsessed with the chickens who can beat humans at tic tac toe in casinos.
No one goes into the archive unless they have a hole to fill. Archives are the remedy to forgetful minds, faulty sources, and even death itself. They promise concrete answers and facts.
All those toxic names on our money, our buildings, even our clothing. How they got there, and what it might mean to strip them of their meaning and power.
Ella Rothschild X Melissa Levin
Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel X Melissa Levin
Amir ElSaffar X Melissa Levin
7 Names: Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders X Benedict Nguyen
Bobbi Jene Smith X Benedict Nguyen
Molly Lieber + Eleanor Smith X Tara Sheena
Peter Mills Weiss + Julia Mounsey X Tara Sheena
The made-up movie feels like one of those sweeping international melodramas with lots of expansive cinematography. In the minds of it creators, it's an epic-length narrative replete with mul…
This body unfurls in slow motion, leaving ample space for labels, classifications, and archetypes to land upon her and vanish.
It's about how we try to use stories to explain things that we otherwise can't explain, and how sometimes even those stories don't do the work for us. How do we keep doing the work after the…
From nightclubs, to rehearsal studios, I found dynamic perspectives and delicious new forms in the many shows I was lucky enough to catch in NYC this year.
My dad called in a fright. He said, "My God, there's a gun in one of these boxes!" And I said, "Yeah, I bought a gun once." He said "Well, I want to throw it away." I said, "That's fine, you…
