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No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025

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No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025

Alex Tatarsky – SLC Performance Lab Podcast 06.02

Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

Inside Holland Festival 2025: Trajal Harrell, Łukasz Twarkowski, and Gisèle Vienne, Lead a Daring Lineup

How to Set Up a Creative Practice Notebook (That You’ll Actually Use)

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  • No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025

    Five artists reclaim the body as rupture, resistance, and ritual. Explore extreme embodiment in this month’s Reading the Field from Contemporary Performance.…

  • Alex Tatarsky – SLC Performance Lab Podcast 06.02

    Alex Tatarsky makes performances somewhere in between comedy, poetry, dance-theater, and rant—sometimes with songs. Tatarsky’s pieces play with the tension and overlap between written and improvised s…

  • Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

    Not all time is equal. As artists, we need to recognize what drains us, what restores us, and why boredom might be the missing piece in our creative capacity.…

  • Inside Holland Festival 2025: Trajal Harrell, Łukasz Twarkowski, and Gisèle Vienne, Lead a Daring Lineup

    Holland Festival 2025 - 11 to 29 June Since its inception in 1947, the Holland Festival has stood as the Netherlands' premier international performing arts festival, renowned for its commitment to …

  • How to Set Up a Creative Practice Notebook (That You’ll Actually Use)

    There’s no single way to keep a creative journal—but if you’re trying to sustain an artistic life across the cycles of making, pausing, researching, and recovering, having a dedicated space for your t…
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