Friday, 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 04:36PMThursday, January 12, 2017
Emily Johnson/Catalyst is an artist for the coming age. Big Dance Theater's subversively brilliant, mmm... at this point in their careers perhaps brilliantly subversive makes more sense. Day…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:33PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Several times, misdirected/redirected, freezing and running in white-out conditions, I wondered why bother at all. But, sometimes it's all you can do to just show up... 2 American Realness D…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:54PMSunday, January 8, 2017
La Mama dispatch for PS 122's COIL Fest, Pavel Zustiak's "Custodians of Beauty" and "Bastard (The Painted Bird: Part 1)" and Squirts intergenerational queer pairings with stand up sets from …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18PMFriday, January 6, 2017
Day 1 of the Festival of Festivals or January Feast: Based on last night's opening works by Will Rawls, Meg Stuart and Dana Michel I'd say the American Realness focus on the "breakdown of wh…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:54PMWednesday, January 4, 2017
La MaMa’s Squirts celebrates its 5th anniversary with a series of intergenerational duets to "mend the queer generation gap, or at least bedazzle it." Now more than ever... now more than n…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:36PMFriday, December 23, 2016
The Poetry Project's "dedication to the amplification of radical imagination, oppositional thinking, and community building among writers, artists, and their audiences" makes its New Year…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:04PMThursday, December 22, 2016
luciana achugar curates Naomi Elena Ramirez & Oren Barnoy, Cynthia Oliver curates Lela Aisha Jones & Leslie Cuyjet - the sum of doubling double pluses is manifold.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:48AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
Christmas in Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel prove dancing and singing are practices of resilence and resistance.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:48PMThursday, December 8, 2016
With an impending Developer-in-Chief and First Son-in-Law eager to tear down historic buildings for the sake of more real estate profits, the preservation of buildings like 537 Broadway beco…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:24PMMonday, December 5, 2016
Judy Hussie-Taylor, Ishmael Houston Jones, Will Rawls and over a 112 artists, undertook a labor of revisionist history and artistic accomplishment that is clearly one for the books historic.…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:48PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Gina Gibney is a builder and a visionary. From 890 down to 280 Broadway, her centers are offering dancers of a wide range of practices space to meet, move and make. So, it is no surprise tha…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:36PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
How will we ever go back after the planting that guest curator Eva Yaa Asentawaa sowed during last week's "the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds?"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:06AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
You had to be there, but if you weren't... make it a point next time to get yourself seated at his feet and revere in his splendor. areyouready?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:48PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
With this 11th Platform, curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls to focus on the impact of the AIDS crisis, they've expanded across time, skipping across aesthetic differences, addre…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:55PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society. – from Americans for the Arts: Statement on Cultural Equ…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:16PMThursday, September 29, 2016
Last night, La Mama, officially, kicked off its 55th anniversary season with Croatian choreographer Bruno Isakovic’s Denuded. This is also the final program for the 5th Queer N…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:37PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Queer New York International Arts Festival Opens with Mamela Nyamza
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:01PMMonday, September 19, 2016
Maura Donohue reflects on the political relevance of La Mama's production of "Pylade" in NYC and on tour in Europe.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:42PMMonday, June 20, 2016
Ruminations on Three Genres of Improvisation curated by David Garland, Roxane Butterfly, Tim O’Donnell and Sarah Young for Performance Mix 30th Anniversary season.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:57PMSaturday, June 18, 2016
Notes from MR Spring Fest Hand Written Notes and Vanessa Anspaugh's "End of Men: An Ode to Ocean."
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:24PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
The 30th annual Performance Mix Festival includes Wednesday night's Edgy NYC + MTL curated by Miriam Ginestier.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:30PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Maura responds to Yasuko Yokoshi's "Zero One" at Danspace Project
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:07PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
DANCENOWNYC celebrates 20 years with the 2015 Festival at Joe’s Pub. Continuing its focus on New York-based artists across generations, the 2015 Festival will feature short works by 50 em…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:36PMThursday, June 25, 2015
Maura responds to Alexandra Beller/Dances and Alexandra responds back.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:43PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
Maura (finally) reviews Providence's Lostwax Dance Co's "Zoologic"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:08PMMonday, May 18, 2015
Maura Donohue responds to Marjani Forte's "being Here/this time..." at Gibney Dance Center. And then, Marjani speaks back.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:03PMMonday, March 30, 2015
Stage director Charlotte Brathwaite, composer/pianist Courtney Bryan and installation artist Abigail DeVille have assembled an Afro-futuristic spectacle with actor/singer Jadele McPherson …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:40PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Maura Donohue, Max Siegling and Rina Espiritu respond to Sam Kim's "Sister to a Fiend" at Gibney Dance Center
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:47PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Teddy Nicholas and Maura Donohue discuss Faye Driscoll's THANK YOU FOR COMING: ATTENDANCE.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:55PMSunday, January 4, 2015
Maura Donohue reflects on the final Double Plus program at Gibney Dance Center.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:02PM 
