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A Play Composed of John Cage Interviews and the Sounds of Daily Life
Chess Match No. 5, a play composed from excerpts of John Cage interviews, reprises canonical questions about the nature of music and art but adds no new insights.
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Making the Case for a More Inclusive Approach to Performance Art
Performatik17, the 17th Brussels Biennial of Performance Art, is either the dream of someone seeking an expanded field or the nightmare of someone craving rigid borders.
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A Giant of the Theater Recounts His Childhood in Miniature
In 887, theater artist Robert Lepage recounts his childhood in Quebec City during the escalation of the separatist movement.
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Revising on the Fly: Adjua Greaves in Performance
In my many years of attending poetry readings, I’ve never encountered a performance technique quite like Greaves’ revisions.
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An Episode of Immersive Theater Unravels for an Audience of Five
Here is a new series of immersive theater experiences in New York that will link an evolving web of characters and storylines propelled by loss.
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A Play Models the Human Cost of Our Economic Ecosystem
Labyrinth Theater Company’s Dolphins and Sharks centers on the necessity of wage labor and the human relations our system engenders.
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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.