A dance company based both in Ramallah and New York City finds fertile ground for experiment working across borders.
Performance
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A Composer’s Obsession Becomes an Underwater Wonder
Watching puppeteer Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique is like experiencing an extreme episode of synesthesia.
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At the Brooklyn Museum, Actors Play at Faking Democracy
The actor’s trade is always a deception, creating the appearance of authenticity.
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As Governments Build Walls Between Us, Tapping into the Creative Potential of Destruction
Summoning within her own body the necessary force to make the assemblage crumble, Foulkes transforms the dancer-sculpture duet into an aerial mosh pit.
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Mozart Hits the Coney Island Boardwalk in Remix of Così fan tutte
The Met’s new production of Così fan tutte stages the comic opera at a Coney Island-style amusement park circa the 1950s.
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An Exuberant Exhibition Embodies the History of American Modernist Ballet
Transmissions shows, deftly and in detail, that ballet is not the rigid art form that some envision it to be.
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A Play About Jackson Pollock’s Life Obscures Lee Krasner’s Importance
Pollock by Fabrice Melquiot is in many ways just another paean to the ‘heroic male painter.’
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The Somber Fate of a Manuscript Illuminator
In Written on Skin, currently playing at Opera Philadelphia, an illuminated manuscript artist gets involved with his patron’s wife.
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“Welcome to a World Without Trump!”: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Latest Performance
Gómez-Peña staged “The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist” at LACE and spoke about his transgressive brand of performance art that takes aim at borders.
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Oral Histories of Three US Families Facing Poverty and Hunger
Pang! is a play that takes the form of live radio, asking the audience to fill in the gap between what they see and hear.
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An Uprising Beneath the Streets of Los Angeles
The 1966 student protests in Durango are the basis for a performance by the Mexico City-based collective Teatro Línea de Sombra.
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A Performance Digs Into the Family History on a Found 1950s Wire Recorder
Say Something Bunny! is a live documentary that excavates the found audio of a 1950s family, and considers what makes these mundane moments compelling.