Audrée Juteau's methods are fungal. She is breaking down detritus in our societal soil and making it into art. Dance is the mushroom in Mystic-Informatic, which Audrée and her human co-cre…
For two nights, Judson Church hosted the Crossroads Series with varied programming each evening. On Tuesday, April 23rd, three very different performances were presented by Pioneers Go East …
 I've always known that the David H Koch Theater, once known as The New York State Theater, was made to George Balanchine's specifications. Still, until sitting down to speak with Thomas…
There is a moment in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot that I return to whenever I think about the relationship between dance and language. It's an often misquoted scene, but it happens whe…
 My interest in theater, and acting, came from what I perceived as an intellectual limitation in ballet, where training is relegated to silence. While discussions of technique and aesthe…
I saw Thomas Ostermeier's An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York Theatre twice, on purpose. It's a sublime text to be working on today, wrought with all the conflict currently comprising…
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's his…
Ka Baird stalks the stage like a phantom: hungry, unsettled, irrepressible. Wielding a microphone and sometimes a flute, they sway and swing at the air, moving with the zeal of a mind posses…
Racing with the gravity of children, the adults ricochet around this room built for great art, cackling. A narrow dodge. Cori's it. A swipe across the belly. Â Â Â Â Â Â MAM…
For young women on social media and the real world alike, girlhood has become somewhat trendy in recent months. Apprehensive of adulthood, increasing numbers of individuals have clung to the…
Racing with the gravity of children, the adults ricochet around this room built for great art, cackling. A narrow dodge. Cori's it. A swipe across the belly. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â…
The audience, a group of ten people padding along in their socks, line up silently along the back wall. The glowing outline of a circle appears on the floor. Someone is brave enough to step …
The first songs I learned as a child were rebel songs. They recounted uprisings, hunger strikes, and rebellions; they rhymed and were easy to remember. Lyrics like "Some say the devil is dea…
The president of the United States sits in a wheelchair commode, speaking in a synthesized voice. A man in a lab coat and rat ears stands at a screen designed to look like a cardboard box. A…
Geraldine Realigned Drives from Gay Place to Gay Place and You're in the Car Too ostensibly follows a drag queen, Geraldine, on a road trip working her way through a list of great American g…
Building arts and culture infrastructure? Here are some lessons learned from a community-based cultural asset mapping initiative in South Los Angeles.
A few pages into the script of Peregrine Teng Heard's" playwright and artistic director of The Associates Theater Ensemble" newest play Redemption Story, I could sense its implicit political…
If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?
 By Emma Schneider What does one come to see at a dance performance? There are components of productions that help to create a whole"costumes, lighting, music, etc."yet, it would be diff…
Once you notice it, you can't stop seeing it - the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?
In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in pers…
Daniel Fish's "Oklahoma!" in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of "Black Box to Broadway". Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venue…
Then Eamon yes-anded by saying, "By the way, I found this vibraphone on the street that I want to take apart." So then we deconstructed the vibraphone.
What happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance…
 "Banality of Evil, as a phrase," Jesse Freedman the Artistic Director of Meta-Phys Ed. told me on the phone last week, each of us speaking from our respective Brooklyn apartments, "is m…