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The American Realness of Juggalos
“A pure object, a spectacle, a clown….” The American Realness of Juggalos Juggalo Collage (unattributed, found on fan site) At a party a few weeks ago I told some friends that I’d been asked to write a...
View ArticleFrom Jenn to Maria (30 December, 2012)
Dearest Maria, I am writing you from the edges of the sand where liquid horizon touches sky. Thinking of you in Cyprus or perhaps now in Athens and soon to return to New York City where we will meet...
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AUNTS started in 2005
Jmy James Kidd and Rebecca Brooks at AUNTS in 2005. Photo by Karen Chang There is probably nothing new or revelatory in my recall of AUNTS as I knew it. I sent a draft to Lili and Laurie and Lili told...
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3 Questions on the Economy
A.L. STEINER 1. Bifo: “the depth of the catastrophe represented by the collapse is awakening hidden potencies of the social brain.” Can we feel good about the crisis, as an alarm clock, sparking...
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Mind Over Mirrors with Miguel Gutierrez
Jaime Fennelly and Miguel Gutierrez. Photo by Jaime Fennelly I’m fascinated by the problem of knowledge–the idea that we can never directly know anything. We’re only seeing light reflecting from...
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Jesse Zaritt on Faye Driscoll’s “You’re Me”
Jesse Zaritt and Faye Driscoll in “You’re Me”. Photo by Steven Schreiber. We pushed our bodies beyond their capacity in every rehearsal, our senses of self were similarly driven far beyond the point of...
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Thoughts on Robots and Humans
“Sayonoara” by Tatsuo Nambu. The performer to the left is an android. It’s hard to know what to talk about first after seeing a play with robot actors. Last Friday, I saw the Robot Theater Project at...
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Dance, Film and Location
Film Still from “Private I’s” Dana Ruttenberg, a dance artist based in Israel, has a recent work showing at LaMaMa this week (March 7-10), as part of a program titled “Contemporary Israeli Dance Week”....
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Performing Film: Sam Green at The Kitchen
Photo by Ed Dittenhoefer Sam Green is performing his latest film at The Kitchen this week. Did you catch that—how I wrote “film” as the direct object of “performing”? The Love Song of R. Buckminster...
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The Evidence of an Interview
This is the result of an interview I had with Jesse Zaritt and Jumatatu Poe, regarding their studio series at NYLA this week (Friday and Saturday, 6pm, $5). The owner of words is indicated in the text...
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Jill Sigman at The Invisible Dog
Photo by Rafael Gamo Jill Sigman can’t really go anywhere, it seems, without being described as the choreographer with a PhD in Philosophy. It’s not an epithet she seeks to shed—her company is...
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Time Share: It’s not a hole, we made it
Some of the organizers of Time Share relate the background on how and why this collaboration came to be. Tatyana describing Time Share to Buck Wanner, Siobhan Burke and Tara Willis in preparation for...
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Spring Movement, (un)finished
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Watching “People” Dance
Audience submission from the Archive of “The People to Come” It is not entirely uncommon to walk into a performance space, and experience an evening that shifts how we think about dance and how a dance...
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Emergency Glitter
Photo by Ben Pryor Next week NYC will see an exciting new venture by the contemporary performance scene’s most entrepreneurial producer and curator, Ben Pryor. Pryor, the vision behind the four-year...
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The Success of Failure
Robert Maynard and Gillian Walsh in Grinding and Equations # 2. photo ©AUNTSisdance. The thing about failure is that everyone is in on it. It’s not some big, inescapable secret we keep tucked away to...
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(Body) language, hesitation and recoil
Rebecca Patek. Photo by Vincent Lafrance (?) After seeing Rebecca Patek’s ineter(a)nal f/ear this weekend, walking up Grand Street to the B train, I tried to digest what I’d experienced. I see-sawed...
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Smoke and Mirrors
Photo By Héctor Eguia del Rio and Mariana My Suikkanen Gomes As I was leaving Carlos Maria Romero and Juan Betancurth’s performance as part of the Emergency Glitter Festival on Friday I couldn’t help...
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Gravity in lieu of grief
There are three lasting images from Niall Jones’ Blown October lash—two of them mostly funny, one of them beautiful and serene—that I am glad not to get out of my mind since watching the performance:...
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Fight, flight, freeze or something else
photo by Liliana Dirks-Goodman In Emily Wexler’s solo performance Blood Lines, she walks into the space and starts on the floor. She moves through positions that seem to follow a blueprint we cannot...
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