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Sara Lyons

In Performance: Angela Goh, Desert Body Creep (COIL)

Desert Body Creep Angela Goh COIL, Performance Space New York January 16-17 Desert Body Creep, choreographed and performed by Angela Goh with sound operation by Matt Cornell, is something of a post-anthropocene hallucination. As Goh literally moves through choreographies, sounds, and objects,
January 20, 2018

In Performance: Mariana Valencia, ALBUM (American Realness)

ALBUM Mariana Valencia American Realness, Abrons Arts Center Underground Theatre January 11-15 Mariana Valencia spends the majority of ALBUM staring directly at the audience. Her near affectless gaze conjures a tone of observational objectivity which deftly frames the central questions of her
January 19, 2018

In Performance: Heather Kravas, visions of beauty (COIL)

visions of beauty Heather Kravas COIL, Performance Space New York January 10-13 Described in the program as “punk in attitude, feminist in spirit”, Heather Kravas’s visions of beauty fulfills this promise most unexpectedly, foregoing distorted guitars and raised fists for a tender
January 17, 2018

In Performance: Atlanta Eke, Body of Work (COIL)

Body of Work Atlanta Eke COIL Festival, Performance Space New York January 10-11, 2018 With Body of Work, Australian choreographer Atlanta Eke has created an offbeat meditation on time and space, reifying and redefining the present moment over and over again
January 13, 2018

What Is Performance Cabaret?

Performance Cabaret queers the classic cabaret refrain “Let me entertain you!” towards work that engages high and low culture together, uniting crisscrossing roots in musical cabaret, variety, comedy, drag, burlesque, and performance art. Performance cabaret is typically driven by an auteur who
December 8, 2017
Jen Rosenblit

In Conversation with Jen Rosenblit

 Each year the Think Tank focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance and conducts research and interviews to produce a paper as a resource for practitioners. This year’s topic is contemporary performing artists and companies
November 26, 2017

In Performance: Anatomy Theater (Prototype 2017)

Anatomy Theater (Prototype 2017) New York City Premiere January 7, 8 and 10-14 at 8 PM Composer: David Lang Librettists: Mark Dion & David Lang Director: Bob McGrath Conductor: Christopher Rountree It is sometime in the nineteenth century, somewhere in the western
January 12, 2017
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In Performance: Gray Spaces (Special Effects)

SFX’s one-night grab bag of discourse-in-performance, GRAY SPACES features new works engaging contemporary questions of technology, identity, ritual, and more by an impressive lineup of emerging performance makers. “Gray” is the operative word of the evening–these artists and their work exist explicitly
January 18, 2016

In Performance: Destruction (American Realness)

In Destruction, composer and countertenor M. Lamar floats into the intimate Underground Theatre at Abrons Arts Center to the sound of death bells, draped in a black leather coat. With an androgynous, otherworldly presence reminiscent of Prince or Bowie, his haunting voice
January 18, 2016

In Performance: Yesterday Tomorrow (COIL)

In the remarkably elegant Yesterday Tomorrow, director Annie Dorsen has created a poignant meditation on what it means to be present, particularly in our contemporary screen-obsessed world.  The third in Dorsen’s trilogy of algorithmic theatre pieces, Yesterday Tomorrow tasks three extraordinary singers
January 15, 2016

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