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Curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, the dance piece the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds incorporated structured improvisation, a deep sense of play, a bold engagement with the audience, and a particular permission given to watch and witness.
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Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.
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Carrie Mae Weems has brought the play's undying themes to new life with her work Past Tense, which combines song, text, reading, and projected video.
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Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus stitches together more than a dozen classical Greek plays and is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed.
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In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
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Sehgal’s latest work will likely go down as one of the 21st century’s most interesting hybrids between contemporary art and dance.
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Artist Nene Humphrey’s 'Circling the Center' is a striking visual metaphor for grief.
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The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented French acrobat Yoann Bourgeois’s nouveau cirque Minuit for the first time in the United States.
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Long a darling of the European festival circuit, Romeo Castellucci and his Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio have since the 1980s presented a visually driven, philosophical theater, often with classical references and the provocative presence of animals and the animality of humans.
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When the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater (then the BAM Majestic Theater) opened in 1987, lauded director Peter Brook staged his production of Jean-Claude Carrière’s Le Mahabharata, itself based on the gargantuan Indian epic.
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This is not your grandmother’s drag show. A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by renowned playwright and drag performer Taylor Mac is a monumental production covering American popular music from 1776 to 2016.
Art
NEW ORLEANS — This weekend the roving Music Box Village of New Orleans will welcome the public to its first permanent space with two days of performances.