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An Abolitionist's Work, in Present Tense
John Brown is so much more than historical matter or biographical trope in Moss's world; he is an ideological framework, able to produce a compelling, albeit densely layered, performance work.
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The Queer Matter of Shakespeare's Sonnets
A not-so-minor detail was left out of a recent New York Times review of Robert Wilson's reinterpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM): The sonnets were the gayest thing the Bard ever wrote.
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A Performance Artist's Absurd Anatomical Odyssey
Nine o’clock: the stage lights dim and a spotlight illuminates a stuffed “hero” sandwich the size of a small sofa. The opening melody of Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” — hit theme song from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome — fills BAM’s Fishman Space.
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Performing the Rituals of Rebellion
In our increasingly digital world, live performance still manages to bring us together, away from the keyboard, for a period of time, however brief. Attending a performance is a kind of ritualistic act, which I have been thinking about since witnessing DEBUT, a new performance work by choreographer
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Dancing Through the Question of Freedom
“The Watershed” remains skeptical about the nature of freedom in what creator Kyle Abraham terms a “poly-phobic society.”
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Turning Manifestos into Music
The premiere live performance of conceptual artist Charles Gaines’s “Manifestos 2” (2013) at the Museum of Modern Art on September 27 was nothing short of synesthetic.
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Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet Salvage Songs from Hurricane Sandy
Laurie Anderson was already working on a cycle of songs with Kronos Quartet when on October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy rose the Hudson River into her West Village home.
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When Drag Queens Crowd Surf
PORTLAND, Oregon — Pepper Pepper went crowd surfing at her recent drag ball. Declaring to the crowd that it was all about collectivism, she dove out into the sea of hands with a large set of balloons attached to her back.
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Machismo Ain't Just for Boys Anymore
PORTLAND, Oregon — "Macho doesn't prove mucho," socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor once punned.
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Investing in Immersive Theater on Governors Island
Set against the economic optimism and then despair of a family-owned paper company going public, Trade Practices, presented by HERE on Governors Island, asks audience members to invest in its story lines. The immersive theater production that kicked off on Labor Day Weekend stages the experience aro
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A Dance of Digital Shadows
Technologies that didn't exist 10 years are opening up fresh possibilities for choreographers and their collaborators. Interactive designer Matt Romein's recent collaborative presentation with choreographer Sophie Sotsky harnessed new developments in motion-capture technology, video programming lang
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Voguing Andy Warhol in Whiteface
In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol posed in drag for a series of Polaroid portraits. Wearing heavy white makeup in works like "Self-Portrait in Drag" (1981), he exudes a ghoulish glamour.