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A Dance Crosses Borders, from the Congo to the Stars
Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American writer and director Annie Dorsen contemplate storytelling at the Crossing the Line Festival.
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What Roberto Bolaño Can Teach Us About Making Art Under Fascism
A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup.
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The Audacity and Abandon of Pina Bausch
In Café Müller and The Rite of Spring, currently playing as a double bill at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tanztheater Wuppertal offers up catharsis followed by brutal physicality.
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Following the Mists and Mysteries of Fog Art
Earlier this month, Fujiko Nakaya brought visitors to an unfinished museum and the woods in Oslo, immersing them in a mysterious fog.
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Placing Your Trust in the Black Male Body
In a performance at Fergus McCaffrey gallery, Clifford Owens used his body as an instrument to propel others not to fear, but to trust.
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A Shadow Puppet Performance Delves into Dementia and Post-Industrial Detroit
Performed at the Columbia Festival of the Arts, Manual Cinema’s The End of TV impressively incorporates shadow puppetry, live actors, video feeds, a live quintet, and lots of cutout paper props.
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Going Backstage with a Theater’s Ghosts
"Ghost Light" by Third Rail Projects uses every dressing room and stairwell of Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater to immerse audiences in the mechanics and magic of the theater.
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A Faustian Satire of Our Shitty President
The new play Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal is a gloves-off attack on Donald Trump — though it never mentions him by name.
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When We Crave the Story More than the Artist
The play Master invents an artist and reveals him to the audience through voicemail messages, eulogies, artifacts, and pieces of his magnum opus.
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Before the Trump-Inspired Julius Caesar, There Was Orson Welles’s Anti-Fascist Staging
The current, controversial Shakespeare in the Park show owes a more than superficial debt to Welles’s landmark production.
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A Performance Celebrating Female Defiance Goes Off Course
Jessica Mitrani's performance "Traveling Lady" takes Nellie Bly's 72-day journey around the globe as its departure point, but the result is less than inspiring.
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A Hilarious, Heartbreaking Performance Seeks Intimacy in Online Love
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble’s The Art of Luv 5: Swipe Right / ROKÉ Cupid, currently running at the Bushwick Starr, is the latest in a multimedia series exploring contemporary forms of desire.