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The flower we touch as children in awe burns. The only chide needed to withdraw. With undeniable power to flaw, fire will still flicker and die. For it lives, as do You and I. …a heap of v…
...strange, messy, and masterful. It might even restore one's faith in independent theater.
On the ambivalent legacy of January's premier festival
Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2 (in draft form) at La MaMa Moves last month moves in and out of cinematic and live performance structures, often jump-cutting from internal narratives to vigo…
Confluence. Storage. Breach. Darvejon A. Jones on Kari Hoaas's "Shadowland" at La MaMa Moves
How for the next few weeks these actors get to tackle conflicts onstage and then return to their everyday lives, undeniably altered. Meanwhile, before me, a performance was taking place. We …
Hunter Dance MFA, Zakiya Harris interviews Abdel R. Salaam about Dance Africa 2023
one of our designers said it was "strangely interesting" at our first run-through
Hunter College MFA Eve Jacobs (in conversation with Ethan Kogan) ruminates on Bobbi Jene Smith's "Broken Theater" at La MaMa Moves 2023
Cory Villegas rinde homenaje a la oratoria en una respuesta de audio en español para el programa en español "Lunch with Sonia" de Loco 7 and Muriel Peterson offers her take too
That's the mission of Young Krones. That's Krone advocacy.
Hunter MFA in Dance student, Austin Marquez, writes about a shared program at La MaMa Moves/NY Arab Festival
Hunter College Dance MFA Darvejon Jones writes about a program at the La MaMa Moves 2023 Festival.
the female golem as child rang true to me as I questioned my own creative potential
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.
