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Monday, January 20, 2025

Reckoning without Redress, jill /thinkdance, Re-Seeding (Encounter #4: The Seamstress) in East Pioneer Collective’s Out-FRONT Fest by Juliana Devaan

In a moment characterized by decay, destruction, and despair, it feels peculiar to find oneself in a place characterized by warmth, communion, and creativity. Out-FRONT! Fest., a week-long p…

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

How to Dance out of the Past and into the Present in Bill T. Jones Still/Here. by Juliana Devaan

  Dances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new context, it appe…

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Friday, August 2, 2024

Toying with Irony in Volta Collective’s SALT by Juliana Devaan

In SALT, a semi-interactive dance-theater work by Los Angeles-based Volta Collective, director-choreographer Mamie Green and writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells take on Euripides’s Med…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:24AM