Sunday, June 19, 2022
maura re/members with george emilio sanchez's "In the Court of the Conquerer" & zavé martohardjono's "TERRITORY: the Island Remembers"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:12PMThursday, June 13, 2019
With XIV, my favorite experimental constitutionalist bruthrr George Emilio Sanchez is crashing a brown, brooding and bold biography into the broader American histories of other fights for eq…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:12PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Dan Safer is the devil you’ve been dying to dance with and Ae Andrea's enviable lines and swag make them an optimal fiend friend for that card.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:12PMFriday, April 26, 2019
Ni'Ja Whitson queers divine kingdoms with cosmological meetings amidst a swirl of lineage, legacies and streaming star scapes. Salve.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:50AMSunday, April 14, 2019
After over a decade hiatus in making work, with “now my hand is ready for my heart” downtown icon, Nicky Paraiso gushes forth while looking back on several lived lives in Nickyworld.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:17PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Here, thoughts are freed from linearity or reasonable binds. There, processing systems allow the universe to expand and retract as an infinite sponge. Where bodies transmute from human famil…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:18AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The La MaMa Moves Festival, now it its 13th season, opens Thursday May 10. Performances in The Ellen Stewart Theatre and the Downstairs Theatre & Lounge, curated by Nicky Paraiso, refle…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:54AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
mayfield brooks, jumatatu m. poe, and the I Moving Lab are part of aa three-week series conceived and curated by Marýa Wethers at Gibney Dance highlighted “intersections and crossroads am…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:48AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality... Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while livi…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:14PMSaturday, January 27, 2018
The age of the ally is over, let's be accomplices. Maura on Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire and NIC Kay at American Realness 2018.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:48AMFriday, January 12, 2018
Michelle Ellsworth brings a real head trip to American Realness 2018.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:49AMFriday, December 15, 2017
I would have this piece on an endless loop that I might wander through it like a cherry blossom viewing "hanami" stroll or soak in like a yuzu scented hinoki bath in the woods. Joanna Kotze …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Perforations Festival brings us into direct responsibility for the execution of artistic ideas and challenges the passive stasis of sideline observation in a mostly successful series of perf…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:06PMMonday, November 13, 2017
Maura and Eugene de Poogene yelled over really loud music with Croatian curator and producer Zvonimir Dobrovic about his "Perforations Festival" - opening Friday.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:12PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
Maura covers The Bessies, MR AoCC Studies Project, AmericanAF, Jasmine Hearn & Mariana Valencia, and Cynthia Oliver's world premiere of "Virago-Man Dem"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:42PMThursday, September 21, 2017
Maura interviews Dorothée Munyaneza. Her "Unwanted" has its New York premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center TONIGHT (September 21-22). Her "Samedi Détente" at Under the Radar Festival in ear…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:06PMSunday, September 17, 2017
Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance (Cumbe) returns to Brooklyn with a new home at RestorationART. Maura interviews Jimena Martinez, Cumbe's Executive Director.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:42PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Maura talks to Maria about her upcoming premiere of "dying and dying and dying" at Gibney Dance Center this week.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:54PMMonday, June 26, 2017
An effective seduction, there is enough truth in the tall tales to keep us believing and bound to the ride.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:06PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
In these perilous, challenging and unpredictable times in our country and in the world, we can look to the performing arts for some clues as to how we might respond and continue to live our …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:06PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Wily, genre-busting Will Rawls collaborates with poetic genius, Claudia Rankine, for their premire of "What Remains" at The Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:48AMSunday, April 16, 2017
Okwui Okpokwasili. Multiple Bessie Award-winning performer and maker. NYLA’s Stryker/Ranjelovic Resident Commissioned Artist. Mother. Human. Electromagnetic Force. She premieres her newest…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:54PMSaturday, April 8, 2017
3 shows from this past week: Edisa Weeks curates at 92nd St. Y Fridays at Noon, Stephen Petronio's 3rd season of Bloodlines, and Gibney's emerging artist program
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:36PMFriday, March 31, 2017
Someday, if the Earth survives this oligarchy’s drive to suck the life out of her and us, historians, archivists, and survivors will share stories of the work being made in “thi…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:02PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
2 workshops, 2 shows - White Organizational Cultures, Equity, Eiko and the Senate
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:24AMThursday, March 23, 2017
Aynsley premieres “And” at Abrons on 3/30. “And” is an evening-length solo performance/monologue using experimental literary devices to create a series of live essays that hold mult…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:42AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Springtime in Nickyland and One-in-Themselves at La MaMa
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:18PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
On Presidents Day in The Club at La MaMa, Nicky Paraiso gathered a packed house of artists and audience members for an evening of protest, stories, songs, dances, reveries and resistance as …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:36PMSunday, January 29, 2017
CultureHub's "Hi-Fi, Wi-FI, Sci-Fi," a collection of plays by iconic playwright Robert Patrick opens Thursday at La MaMa’s Downstairs Theater. This production connects us with an expansive…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:06PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and M. Lamar are Incomprehensible, Jen Rosenblit claps hands, and Lucy Sexton, Lisa Kron, Yvonne Rainer and The Bessies celebrate Judy Hussie-Taylor, Rockette Phoebe Pe…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:06AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Monday morning performance hangover is cured by a talk moderated by Tara Aisha Willis, and the works of Julianna May, Ni'Ja Whitson/The NWA Project and Wendell Cooper/Mx. Oops..."in all my l…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:36PM 
