Performance
The title of writer-dancer-artist-choreographer Ralph Lemon's new production, Scaffold Room, describes equally well the contraption on and around which it's staged and the way the piece is structured.
Art
In 1920s Hamburg, a dancer couple created wild, Expressionist costumes that looked like retro robots and Bauhaus knights.
Art
Tomorrow at noon, visual and performing artist Tony Orrico will sit down at an eight-by-eight-foot sheet of paper and begin to chew.
Interview
Choreographer and writer Jack Ferver’s new collaboration with artist Marc Swanson, Chambre, begins with Ferver, scantily-clad in a gold, chained bodysuit and dark sunglasses, ranting about a former employee who had the audacity to use “my YSL discount without my permission.”
Performance
Tree of Codes brings together the efforts of three major names from three different disciplines: Wayne McGregor, the award-winning British choreographer; Danish-Icelandic visual artist and light wizard Olafur Eliasson; and electronic music producer Jamie xx, one third of the band the xx.
Performance
Early in koosil-ja’s new show I Am Capitalism, which ran at The Kitchen last week, she spoke through recorded voice-overs of a desire to acquire dances.
Performance
Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you're not a Jew.
Performance
For dancers, the body is a surrogate for concepts and a tool for arranging shapes in the air.
Opinion
I first saw a video of Maya Plisetskaya dancing when she died early last month.
Art
A movie set amongst the machines of CERN, the world's largest particle physics facility, considers how both art and science strive to understand the universe, and what it is to be human.
Performance
How do you take a form of street dance and bring it, for the first time, to the theatrical stage — and not just any stage, but a 160-foot-long one?
Art
Dancing about climate change makes about as much sense as ... painting Op art compositions to give stock tips. Or crafting a steel sculpture that instructs viewers how to renew their driver's licenses. Or composing an opera to review a restaurant.