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A Performance Unpacks Our Relationship to the Things We Keep Boxed Up
Before Geoff Sobelle's performance The Object Lesson begins, the audience is invited to riffle through the hundreds of boxes piled high around the theater.
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Detox, the Musical: Richard Maxwell's 'The Good Samaritans'
Richard Maxwell’s style can be off-putting or self-defeating, yet its virtues are manifest in this piece.
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From Treadmill to Tape, a Series of Unsettling Dance Vignettes
The Batsheva Dance Company’s Last Work features a dancer running on a treadmill for the entire length of the performance, while the ensemble physically enacts a series of non-narrative scenes.
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The Dances of the Slavic Goddesses
Artist Paulina Olowska collaborated with choreographer Katy Pyle to create a suite of solo dances based a 1918 series of prints depicting Slavic deities.
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A Disco-Pop Take on ‘Medea' Unfolds Across Multiple Stages and Screens
Yara Travieso’s staging of La Medea at the Coil festival was several shows at once — the performers themselves, live video, and other audience members, who were at times invited to join in the dance.
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Body in Mind: Live Performance in Prototype, Under the Radar, and American Realness
While this year some pieces isolated participants through technology, others relished their theatricality and fed off the physical presence of live performers.
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Intimate Theater Staged in the Bathtubs of Strangers
Since 2015, actor and activist Siobhan O’Loughlin has staged "Broken Bone Bathtub" around the world in the intimate space of a private bathroom.
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Theater of Machines: Rimini Protokoll and CVRTAIN
Two of this year's performance offerings, perhaps inadvertently, highlighted the sometimes awkward and asocial embrace of technology.
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From Slut Shaming to Systemic Racism, Indie Opera Tackles Timely Issues
These operas are not the types of performances seen at traditional opera venues with their generous budgets, megastars, and perfect-pitch performances.
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An Opera Revisits the Grisly Public Dissections of the 18th Century
An anatomical theater and its dissected murderess are the subjects of a bloody opera on the physical nature of evil.
Art
The Irish for Noh: The Masks of William Butler Yeats
Although the poetry of William Butler Yeats is often misconstrued as autobiographical, the poet scorned such transparency, calling it “unimaginative” and comparing realism to “putting photographs in a plush frame.”
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E Is for Edward Gorey, Whose Biographical Play Was Embellished
GOREY: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey presents its subject as a closeted, mostly rebuffed gay man resigned to his solitude. In the process, it sells him short.