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Performa

Posted inArt

Danielle Dean Wades Through Two Hollow Utopias

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

Every utopia is a social experiment, the artist suggests in this commission for the Performa performance art biennial, and we’re ultimately the guinea pigs.

Posted inArt

Tschabalala Self Dramatizes the Struggle to See and Be Seen

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 26, 2021November 2, 2021

Sounding Board does not do what I expect from contemporary performance with its staged acting and scripted plot and dialogue, but it still succeeds.

Posted inArt

The Sounds That Get Lost in the Shuffle

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 15, 2021October 19, 2021

We are waiting for spectacle and when the quotidian, yet incongruous actions occur I wonder whether there is any real payoff coming.

Posted inPerformance

Inspired by Nam June Paik, Performa is Bringing Back the Telethon

Avatar photo by danilo machado November 16, 2020November 20, 2020

The 8-hour online program will debut new works, reimaginings, and collaborations by artists such as Yvonne Rainer, Glenn Kaino, Barbara Kruger, and the WideAwakes.

Posted inPerformance

Mourning through Performance, or Performative Mourning?

by Cassie Packard November 27, 2019December 6, 2019

At Performa, Huang Po-Chih and Su Hui-Yu each staged theatrical productions concerning collective mourning and memorialization. Yet while Su built upon his own relationship to a story of loss, Huang seemed to impose himself upon someone else’s.

Posted inOpinion

A Performa Production Co-opted the Story of a Sex Worker

by KK de La Vida and Banyi Huang November 25, 2019

Without speaking with or even acknowledging the existence of critical members of the sex worker community, Performa has ultimately appropriated migrant sex worker organizing.

Posted inPerformance

Yvonne Rainer’s Conceptual Chess, Revived and Restaged

by Cassie Packard November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

In its first performances since 1965, the recent Performa revival of Rainer’s Parts of Some Sextets prompts considerations of how we can safeguard the choreographer’s visionary oeuvre while staying true to her vision.

Posted inPerformance

Kia LaBeija Shelters a Queer, Black Femme Story of Collective Liberation

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo November 18, 2019November 17, 2019

The strength in LaBeija’s Performa debut comes from her ability to use Oskar Shlemmer’s Bauhaus ballet as an outline, while organically combining the talents of people in her community.

Posted inArt

Dances of Doom and Transcendence

Avatar photo by Laila Pedro November 14, 2017

Choreographer Gillian Walsh takes on dance as a “suicidal tendency” and considers mysticism in a time of global crisis.

Posted inPerformance

Performa 15: Rewarding Musical Turns, and Unused Real Estate

by Paul David Young November 29, 2015December 3, 2015

In the final phase of Performa 15, which ended on November 22, a couple of performances turned profitably to music, creating synergies with standardized hand gestures in one case and the dynamics of theater lighting in the other.

Posted inPerformance

Dancing Around the Issue of Surveillance

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 23, 2015November 23, 2015

Audiences entering the black box space of BAM Fisher in Brooklyn for More up a Tree found a transparent room containing a man sprawled on his back, and a woman nervously pacing.

Posted inPerformance

Performa 15: Diversity, Latex Fetish Wear, and Puppets (Plus the Renaissance)

by Paul David Young November 21, 2015December 1, 2015

Performa 15, the New York performance biennial, in this edition looks to the Renaissance as its “historical research anchor,” as the festival’s promotional materials put it, though in practice, the historical tie is often so vague as to be meaningless.

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