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Con Ganas: some thoughts on “Kitsch” and “The Foreigner”
I am typically one who shies away from meaning. I am more interested in use and value. What might we do with dance, for example, or how might we begin to revalue devalued objects and methodologies?...
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What Can Be Done With Dance? Pt. 2
Part one of this series can be read here. As of late I have been writing a great deal about strategies and modes of resistance. I have been thinking about the usefulness of dance, of the power of...
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On Courage
“Courage is the great enabling virtue that allows one to realize other virtues like love and hope and faith. To have courage is to be willing to look unflinchingly at catastrophic circumstances and...
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What is a performance archive?
As audiences, when we speak of performance we are speaking most often about the glimpses acquired in the act of witnessing. We are speaking to our experience as it lies bound up in the delineation of...
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Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality: The Operature
Last year I was invited by performance company ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality) to sit in on several rehearsals while they worked on their latest piece together, The Operature. Since that...
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What can be done with dance? Part 3
From “Yes Yes Y’all” by Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn. Photo by Henry Chalfant. The choreographic writings of performance and political theorist Randy Martin are rooted in an understanding of dance as...
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By Invitation: notes on midwestern conceptualism
Photograph of the artists who participated in the January Show Photograph by Seth Siegelaub, 1969. Taken from Moma.org From left: Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner. “In...
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What can be done with dance? Pt. 4: taisha paggett
Recently, I was fortunate enough to be in conversation with artist-choreographer taisha paggett. Paggett, who splits her time between Chicago and LA, is one of the many Chicago artists to be included...
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