Violation finds the art in artlessness in a collection of essays.
Katie Pelletier
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Dancing at the End of the World
11: Dance Co’s Post-Apocalyptic Library
11: Dance Co’s post-apocalyptic Library.
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Claire Vaye Watkins Assembles California
Gold Fame Citrus Forecasts a Draught-Ravaged West
Gold Fame Citrus forecasts a draught-ravaged West.
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Reclaiming the Rape Joke
Adrienne Truscott’s Asking for It
Adrienne Truscott’s Asking for It.
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Lauren Groff’s Scenes from a Marriage
Fates and Furies: How Well Can You Ever Know Another Person?
Fates and Furies: How well can you ever know another person?
Posted inTBA
The Confines of Gender (and Dance) in Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient
Courtesy PICA Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient Watching French choreographer Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient, I couldn’t help compare this ensemble performance to his solo work performed earlier in the festival, Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer. There are similarities in themes—both explore gender […]
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The Confines of Gender in Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient
Courtesy PICA Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient Watching French choreographer Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient, I couldn’t help compare this ensemble performance to his solo work performed earlier in the festival, Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer. There are similarities in themes—both explore gender […]
Posted inArtsy
Between Satire and Sincerity: Michelle Ellsworth’s Briefing on the End of Men
Briana Cerezo Michelle Ellsworth, followed by her “Male-Gaze Simulator,” in Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome. A sassy New York Times editorial by Maureen Dowd about the evolutionary shrinking of the Y chromosome, coupled with the death of a friend’s father, got Michelle Ellsworth asking, “What will be missed when men are gone?” […]
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Between Satire and Sincerity: Michelle Ellsworth’s Briefing on the End of Men
Briana Cerezo Michelle Ellsworth, followed by her “Male-Gaze Simulator,” in Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome. A sassy New York Times editorial by Maureen Dowd about the evolutionary shrinking of the Y chromosome, coupled with the death of a friend’s father, got Michelle Ellsworth asking, “What will be missed when men are gone?” […]
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In “the Couscous Piece” at TBA, Radhouane El Meddeb Fuses Cooking with Dance
Courtesy Radhouane El Meddeb French Tunisian artist Radhouane El Meddeb. Affectionately called “the couscous piece” by PICA’s Artistic Director Angela Mattox at an artist talk Wednesday, Radhouane El Meddeb prepares and feeds his audience both dance and the traditional North African dish in Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer, performed Tuesday and […]
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Radhouane El Meddeb Serves Up Dance and Couscous in Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer
Courtesy Radhouane El Meddeb French Tunisian artist Radhouane El Meddeb. Affectionately called “the couscous piece” by PICA’s Artistic Director Angela Mattox at an artist talk Wednesday, Radhouane El Meddeb prepares and feeds his audience both dance and the traditional North African dish in Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer, performed Tuesday and […]
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Sacred/Profane
From Bill Clinton to Nabokov, National Book Award-Winning Poet Mary Szybist Explores the Space Between
From Bill Clinton to Nabokov, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist explores the space between.