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Monday, October 21, 2024

The healing grace of Charlotte Brathwaite’s “Passage: A Forgotten Paradise Project” by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

Who is theater for? Where and how does theater speak for, from and to the margins, the marginalized, the forcibly displaced, the intentionally erased?

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Monday, October 14, 2024

What is a liberated body? “Talking” Exorcism = Liberation with Yanira Castro by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro's Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day. 

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:02PM
Monday, July 22, 2024

Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

Kazakhstan’s ORTA Collective presented Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector at La MaMa ETC in association with CultureHub.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:18PM
Monday, July 8, 2024

Binging to Bliss in “Bodhisattva Beer Run” by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

A golden age is brewing for AAPI contemporary performance[i] with Glenn Potter-Takata and evan ray suzuki serving as crafty “kodama” (木霊, 木魂 or 木魅) leading us through the for…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:06PM
Friday, May 24, 2024

Ancestral cycles in Alethea Pace’s “between wave and water” by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

Alethea Pace’s “between wave and water,” presented recently at BAAD!, honors the memory of the ancestors buried there in a potent passage of works that resist the urge to erase America…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:32PM
Sunday, February 4, 2024

January roundup – Mina Nishimura, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Yasuko Yokoshi, and Motus by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

So, while trying to strictly manage the pervasive NYC version of Arts Presenters-infected "festival fomo," I still accumulated enough exposure to the spores of a range of performances in the…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:02PM
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Kayla Farrish “Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2” (in development) at La MaMa Moves by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

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 vigoro…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:54PM

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