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When Bieber Is Your Mirror
In a 2011 commercial for his fragrance "Someday," Justin Bieber — then just 17-years-old — flies across sun-streaked heavens, a recently spritzed blond beauty in his arms.
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Into the Heart of Darkness: Final Week of the Annual APAP Performance Festivals in New York
The whirlwind of performances accompanying the annual convention of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York has come to a close, with PS122's COIL, the Public Theater's Under the Radar, HERE's Prototype, Abrons Arts Center's American Realness and other festivals wrapping up last Su
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Foucault Dancing and Future Tragedy: The APAP Performance Festivals in New York
APAP/NYC, the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, has hit town. PS122's COIL, the Public Theater's Under the Radar, HERE's Prototype, Abrons Arts Center's American Realness and other festivals all over the city aim to lure bookings for shows by presenting work around
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A Festival Offers Experimental Theater that Audiences Can Relate To
Bertolt Brecht is rolling in his grave right now — but only to better see the provocative theater happening at The Public.
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Hearing a Poignant Eulogy in David Bowie's First Musical
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we'll get to a final David Bowie performance.
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An Opera About Plucking and Pimping Fallen Angels
The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
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Performa 15: Rewarding Musical Turns, and Unused Real Estate
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.
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In Uganda, a Performance Artist Confronts Her Privilege
LOS ANGELES — Tired of being an internet activist, performance artist Kristina Wong left behind the comfortable safety of her armchair and computer to set out for three weeks in northern Uganda.
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Dancing Around the Issue of Surveillance
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.
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Performa 15: Diversity, Latex Fetish Wear, and Puppets (Plus the Renaissance)
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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A Play Takes Buckminster Fuller’s Fantastic Ideas to Task
The designs and theories of Buckminster Fuller may seem like quaint retrofuturism today, but there was a time when his utopian ideas seemed to hold the key to peaceful and sustainable human existence on earth — at least he thought so.
Film
Among Intimates at New York's Queer Experimental Film Festival
When I arrived early on opening night of this year’s MIX NYC festival at a former manufacturing space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I heard a rumor that there used to be a panty factory there.