The Terrestrial Trilogy shows how we can — and perhaps cannot — talk about pressing human and environmental emergencies.
FIAF: Crossing the Line Festival
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New York Stage Productions Are Feeling the Strain of Supply Shortages
When supply chains and funding fall short, theatre does too.
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How Do We Free Those Who Are Already Free?
African scholars Felwine Sarr and Dorcy Rugamba seek to answer this question with the musical theatre performance Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day.
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Is Shadow Puppetry a Dying Art Form?
There are tensions between those who wish to preserve the nature of shadow play and those who want to see it evolve.
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Digital Theater Is Not Just a Pandemic Fad, Creators Say
The art form continues to survive the return of in-person theatre, but maker-performers struggle with a lack of institutional support.
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Unboxing the Origins of Civilization
With cardboard paintings, Omar Ba honors African cultures and challenges the Eurocentric view of history.
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Hope and Agony According to Felwine Sarr
Traces — Speech to African Nations is a spoken word piece with music written by the acclaimed Senegalese scholar and performed by the Burkinabé actor Étienne Minoungou.
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Dalit Musicians Are Playing A New Tune
Through their music, artists like Ginni Mahi and The Casteless Collective have protested the ways Dalits have been maltreated and marginalized in Hindu culture, often called “untouchables.”
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A Live Podcast Centers Stories From Bosnia, Palestine, and Mexico
In its best moments, Radio Live made the world feel smaller with rich vignettes from lives we might have little intimate access to.
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How Theater Directors Use Fragrances to Create “Poetry for the Nose”
Memory is directly linked to our sense of smell. That’s why Cyril Teste chose to engage the audience’s noses in directing Opening Night at the Crossing the Line festival.
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The Insidious Carbon Footprint of Travel to Art and Cultural Festivals
With climate change an undeniable threat, will arts festivals have to reassess their reliance on air travel?
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A One-Man Show Repackages Michel Foucault for the Age of Trump
This boldly minimalist production — a co-presentation of FIAF’s Crossing the Line festival, the Invisible Dog Art Center, and The Cooper Union directed by Fanny de Chaillé — revisits a text written for times of upheaval.
