the land remembers, do you remember the land? by Maura Donohue

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 1:12pm on June 19, 2022☆⚑

Can I get a witness!! Looking for e pluribus pluribus with George Emilio Sanchez's "XIV" at Dixon Place by Maura Donohue

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 6:12pm on June 13, 2019☆⚑

Everything is there where you got nothing left. Dan Safer at La MaMa Moves, finally. by Maura Donohue

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 11:12pm on May 21, 2019☆⚑

floating queer celestials in Ni'Ja Whitson's "Oba Qween Baba King Baba" by Maura Donohue

Ni'Ja Whitson queers divine kingdoms with cosmological meetings amidst a swirl of lineage, legacies and streaming star scapes. Salve.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 2:50am on April 26, 2019☆⚑

The world according to Nicky: "now my hand is ready for my heart" at La MaMa by Maura Donohue

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 12:17pm on April 14, 2019☆⚑

to go is to be going, but not to get there " Mina Nishimura & Julian Barnett Double Plus by Maura Donohue

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 5:18am on December 19, 2018☆⚑

La MaMa Moves at 13 by Maura Donohue

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, ref…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 4:54am on May 8, 2018☆⚑

Shapeshifters: Black Queer Land(ing) at Gibney Dance by Maura Donohue

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 6:48am on May 2, 2018☆⚑

in the waking: Tommy DeFrantz (American Realness) & David Thomson (COIL) by Maura Donohue

"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 living…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 2:14pm on February 10, 2018☆⚑

Accomplices in the Realness: Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire & NIC Kay by Maura Donohue

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 11:48am on January 27, 2018☆⚑

Getting Real #1: Michelle Ellsworth's "The Rehearsal Artist" for American Realness by Maura Donohue

Michelle Ellsworth brings a real head trip to American Realness 2018.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:49am on January 12, 2018☆⚑

In the sublime of Kota Yamazaki's "Darkness Odyssey Part 2: I or Hallucination" by Maura Donohue

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 10:48am on December 15, 2017☆⚑

in spite of safety and comfort: Perforations Festival round up by Maura Donohue

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 6:06pm on November 29, 2017☆⚑

Rip It Open: "Perforations Festival" is coming back to NYC by Maura Donohue

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 5:12pm on November 13, 2017☆⚑

Together in the Fierce Tender " notes from October '17 by Maura Donohue

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 2:42pm on November 4, 2017☆⚑

Refusing to Bow Down: Dorothée Munyaneza' speaks about "Unwanted" by Maura Donohue

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 e…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 1:06pm on September 21, 2017☆⚑

Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance returns home to Brooklyn by Maura Donohue

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 12:42pm on September 17, 2017☆⚑

Maria Bauman talks about "dying and dying and dying" by Maura Donohue

Maura talks to Maria about her upcoming premiere of "dying and dying and dying" at Gibney Dance Center this week.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 4:54pm on September 11, 2017☆⚑

'round the bend: Amy Surratt's FIRST AND LAST (show) by Maura Donohue

An effective seduction, there is enough truth in the tall tales to keep us believing and bound to the ride.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 4:06pm on June 26, 2017☆⚑

Remake The World: La MaMa Moves! by Maura Donohue

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 8:06pm on June 14, 2017☆⚑

"You are you even before you…" " Will Rawls & Claudia Rankine at Bard College by Maura Donohue

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 12:48am on May 2, 2017☆⚑

"Poor People's TV Room" " Interview with Okwui Okpokwasili by Maura Donohue

Okwui Okpokwasili. Multiple Bessie Award-winning performer and maker. NYLA's Stryker/Ranjelovic Resident Commissioned Artist. Mother. Human. Electromagnetic Force. She premieres her newest c…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:54pm on April 16, 2017☆⚑

Mobilizing Bodies: Dance & Disability at 92Y, Petronio at The Joyce, & Work Up 3.1 at Gibney by Maura Donohue

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 12:36pm on April 8, 2017☆⚑

Downtown Icons, Non-Consenual Relationships with Ghosts, & Passages by Maura Donohue

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 “t…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 7:02pm on March 31, 2017☆⚑

Rupture this: Artists Co-Creating Real Equity, Create NYC, Eiko, The Bureau for the Future of Choreography by Maura Donohue

2 workshops, 2 shows - White Organizational Cultures, Equity, Eiko and the Senate

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:24am on March 28, 2017☆⚑