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The Complicated Staging of Experimental Music in Art Spaces

by DeForrest Brown, Jr. September 4, 2019September 4, 2019

Veteran musician Onyx Ashanti’s performance prompted larger questions of how personal, cultural works hold value in commodified spaces of leisure, excess and consumption.

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For Six Hours, Four Performers Freeze in the Act of Falling

by Renée Reizman August 19, 2019

In Just a Blink of an Eye, the performers lean backwards, appearing as victims of an unseen violence.

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When Artists Recreate Lost Children for Mourning Mothers

by Angelica FreyJuly 25, 2019September 16, 2020

While entertaining at first, Reborning, which deals with the phenomenon of hyperrealistic “reborn dolls,” progressively unveils what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.

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Mining Robert Mapplethorpe’s Legacy, With Missteps

by Gabriel Grossman and John Sherer July 24, 2019July 29, 2019

Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.

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A Strange Loop Stages the Double Consciousness of Being Black and Queer

by Zachary Small July 11, 2019July 11, 2019

Michael R. Jackson’s subversive sermon on the conflicted heart of a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man details an artist’s fight against society’s expectations of what he should be.

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Anne Imhof’s Sex Creates Drama but Not Desire

by Nicholas Chittenden Morgan July 2, 2019October 29, 2019

Imhof’s performance Sex is dramatic, even melodramatic, yet its drama is not sensual; it removes bodily urges from the mix.

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A Chamber Choir Musical Takes Aim at Our Tech-Driven Loneliness

by Catherine Yu May 27, 2019May 23, 2019

The show demonstrates that human connection isn’t dead in spite of the forest of technology that separates us from each other, and that we can have our limbic state reset through music.

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Dance Performances in Historic Churches Revive Spiritual Histories

by Megan Voeller May 20, 2019May 21, 2019

The Grounds that Shout! project put Reggie Wilson in the role of curator as well as choreographer to present his own work alongside the dances of seven Philadelphia choreographers and companies who created the performances.

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This Year’s Ten Best German Plays

by Paul David Young May 18, 2019May 17, 2019

The work on display at Berlin’s Theatertreffen draws on film, novels, Brecht, and ancient Greek drama.

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A Factory that Processes Your Dandelion Wishes

by Renée Reizman May 15, 2019

The anonymous art collective simply known as the Art Department transformed a decommissioned building into “a secret wish-processing facility.”

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A Performance Festival by and for Disabled Artists

by Chloe Crawford May 9, 2019March 18, 2020

A glimpse into the impressive breadth and variety of performances and lived experiences of disability.

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In an Interactive Performance, a Filmmaker Dissects Her Abandoned Debut Feature

by Dana Reinoos May 9, 2019November 4, 2019

In My First Film, Zia Anger explores the humor, anger, and heartbreak she feels about her lost work, all live onstage.

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