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Alchemizing Energies: Ann Liv Young, Marina Abramović, and all of Us
On December 4th I experienced blindness, hugged a stranger intimately for several minutes, ran—gently—head first into a wall, did five pushups in front of an audience, tried to explain how I write...
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Seeing Double
Culturebot contributors Stormy Budwig and Tara Sheena explore the dialogue-as-criticsm form of performance review. In their conversation, they speak about the work of Alex Rodabaugh and Rakiya Orange...
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Ecology/Counterpoint
Julieta Cervantes WHO GOES TO SEE MEREDITH MONK IN PERFORMANCE AT BAM I am seven rows from the front, left side of the orchestra. Frye boots feel as casual here as they did when I interviewed for a...
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December Dispatches
December 2014 in dance: MR Festival, Greg Zuccolo, Keely Garfield, Tere O’Connor. Articulate movement: holding what can’t be had AN EXPLORATION IN NAMING, one of Movement Research Festival’s three...
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The choice to see Dance Performance (according to my experience of Gibney...
g1br33l. Photo by Alex Escalante. Mission statements of an emerging generation of artists, in 3 to 9 word excerpts …an examination of the intimate role of spectacle… —Death Made Love to My Feet It...
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Eating up & carving out: Cynthia Oliver and David Thomson discuss “Sister”
Grant Halverson, ©ADF 1. Could you give a transcript-like description of what happens in the dance, from your point of view? Cynthia: No, I can’t. That would be antithetical to the way in which Tere...
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“Sister to a Fiend”: incantation, energy, and terrific force
When you first began this dance, was it you alone making material in the studio, or did you immediately bring Amanda Kmett’Pendry and Joanna Kotze into the process? It all started with some...
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Overlap, Intersections, and Emergence in Dance Performance
Photo: Brian Rogers It is the evening after the presidential election, and Sam Kim is rehearsing with her dancers. When I walk into the Chocolate Factory, I find Tess Dworman, Amanda Hunt, and Katie...
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Dancing a History and Defining a Project: Some Notes on Netta Yerushalmy’s...
“What should we have the body do?” Netta Yerushalmy and her dancers performed Paramodernities #3 during River To River Festival 2017 in a large open space at the Museum of the American Indian, where...
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Stormy Budwig on Meg Stuart’s UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP
Meg Stuart’s Until Our Hearts Stop at NYU Skirball Center, May 4, 2018 Photo credit: Iris JankePicture left to right: Leyla Postalcioglu, Neil Callaghan, Jared Gradinger Source and direction There are...
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