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The January Theater Festivals Are Mostly Postponed — But Here’s What You Can See
12/10/2022
Vulture
But the festivals aren’t really gone, or at least not completely. Experimental artists are still making work — a little of it in person, much of it online. Taken all together, it might still be a banquet for anyone interested in theatrical innovation, transgression, and intellectual riot.
Vulture
But the festivals aren’t really gone, or at least not completely. Experimental artists are still making work — a little of it in person, much of it online. Taken all together, it might still be a banquet for anyone interested in theatrical innovation, transgression, and intellectual riot.
THE YEAR IN PERFORMANCE
12/08/2022
artforum
Yvonne Rainer announced that Hellzapoppin’: What about the bees? (New York Live Arts, copresented with Performa) would be her last dance. She has never been a mincer—not on her feet, and not of words—so where others expressed their doubts that this was true, I believed her, or believed at the very least that “last...
artforum
Yvonne Rainer announced that Hellzapoppin’: What about the bees? (New York Live Arts, copresented with Performa) would be her last dance. She has never been a mincer—not on her feet, and not of words—so where others expressed their doubts that this was true, I believed her, or believed at the very least that “last...
Interview With Daniel Alexander Jones
12/02/2022
Stage Biz
The transcendent Black Queer Artist Daniel Alexander Jones (aka DAJ) puts his “slashes” to good use. The multi-hyphenated artist is having a very busy 2021. He’s had a book release, a podcast, a Howlround, and Christmas show, Jomama Jones’s Celestial Holiday Spectacular on December 3rd at New York Live Arts all...
Stage Biz
The transcendent Black Queer Artist Daniel Alexander Jones (aka DAJ) puts his “slashes” to good use. The multi-hyphenated artist is having a very busy 2021. He’s had a book release, a podcast, a Howlround, and Christmas show, Jomama Jones’s Celestial Holiday Spectacular on December 3rd at New York Live Arts all...
Best Dance Performances of 2022
12/02/2022
The New York Times
After a few slow, sad years, the dance calendar returned to something like abundance, with standout shows that leaned into joy and community.
The New York Times
After a few slow, sad years, the dance calendar returned to something like abundance, with standout shows that leaned into joy and community.
Review: Play and Loss, and Unusual Rituals of Mourning
11/11/2022
Vanessa Anspaugh’s dance “Mourning After Mornings” discovers and creates its own logic, mixing humor with grief.
Vanessa Anspaugh’s dance “Mourning After Mornings” discovers and creates its own logic, mixing humor with grief.
Iconic director, choreographer Bill T. Jones invites students, scholars and local community members onstage
11/09/2022
Brown University
Iconic director, choreographer Bill T. Jones invites students, scholars and local community members onstage
Brown University
Iconic director, choreographer Bill T. Jones invites students, scholars and local community members onstage
Hope after Tragedy
11/08/2022
The Brooklyn Rail
Vanessa Anspaugh’s mourning after mornings offers a sprawl of unruly movement and intergenerational tenderness at New York Live Arts.
The Brooklyn Rail
Vanessa Anspaugh’s mourning after mornings offers a sprawl of unruly movement and intergenerational tenderness at New York Live Arts.
Dance Review: “What Problem?” — Bill T. Jones’s Angel of History
11/06/2022
The Arts Fuse
Bill T. Jones has long been as much a soothsayer as a choreographer. As What Problem? opens, Jones, still muscular and arrestingly handsome perching behind a metal music stand, begins to speak in tongues. My ear reached for meaning but the speech was a shattered mix of phrases, religious quotations, and the...
The Arts Fuse
Bill T. Jones has long been as much a soothsayer as a choreographer. As What Problem? opens, Jones, still muscular and arrestingly handsome perching behind a metal music stand, begins to speak in tongues. My ear reached for meaning but the speech was a shattered mix of phrases, religious quotations, and the...
In Her New Piece, This Visionary Dancer And Performance Artist Explores How We Manage Grief And Rage
10/29/2022
“Get in the light.” When she was a child Vanessa Anspaugh’s father, would direct his daughter with his video camera and advise her to get into the light. A passionate performer, she especially loved to dance.
“Get in the light.” When she was a child Vanessa Anspaugh’s father, would direct his daughter with his video camera and advise her to get into the light. A passionate performer, she especially loved to dance.
Yvonne Rainer's Last Dance
10/29/2022
NYCITY
Be there as Yvonne Rainer, the avant-garde choreographer and filmmaker who has been pushing boundaries since the ’60s, takes on her final rehearsal at age 87.
NYCITY
Be there as Yvonne Rainer, the avant-garde choreographer and filmmaker who has been pushing boundaries since the ’60s, takes on her final rehearsal at age 87.