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carrying on: KYLE b. co.’s Critical Race Therapy / Critical Club Therapy
CULTUREBOT is thrilled to join our friends at CPR – Center for Performance Research as a publishing partner of CPR’s new arts writing series OPEN BOOK. In the second installment of OPEN BOOK, Sol...
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The Maybe-Myths of Leonie Bell
This article is published in partnership with our friends at Staff Picks Here’s one difference between stories and myths: Stories are about the things people do, while myths are about things that are...
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“Palestine is For Everybody” | Theater Workers for a Ceasefire (TW4C)...
Solidarity Fest, organized by Theater Workers for a Ceasefire (TW4C): a one-day festival on January 3, 2026 at JACK in Brooklyn, connected Palestine to an array of social justice issues of today,...
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Reflections on We The People: Assembly of New York Artists
Photo by CJ Gardella On Saturday, January 24, 529 NY artists and arts workers were signed up for We The People: Assembly of New York Artists, an event organized by The Hunter College Office of the...
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Talia Corren, Gregory Mosher, + Theresa Buchheister in conversation | We The...
Amy Goodman, Gonzalo Casals, Theresa Buchheister, Rafael Espinal, and Sarah Calderón | Photo by Matthew Capowski We The People: Assembly of New York Artists at Danspace Project in St Marks Church...
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The City That Listens: Immersion and the Nervous System of London
Dear Friend, Yes, I am as well as can be — though now as an expat I walk the streets asking where I am and what my place is. I touched on being new here in my last Dispatch (#1 We Must Make our Ghosts...
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We Must Make Our Ghosts Our Guests
Dear friend, Were you concerned I had not made it alive? What with the travel and the turmoil? I assure you I am fine, and have found myself as safe as anyone safely living in the west (I don’t need to...
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In Her Solo Show MY WAY, Isabel Monk Cade Confronts and Then Arrives Home
Photo by Nicholas Motyka. I first heard Isabel Monk Cade read her essay My Way–which has since become, through a collaboration with director Joy Donze, a fully-staged solo show– as part of The Dogtown...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Cultural Asset Mapping
In August 2021, after more than two decades working with artists and in nonprofit arts and culture organizations of all sizes, I joined the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to...
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“When The End Becomes The Beginning:” Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born’s...
I recently found myself in something of a reunion. I met up with an old friend from elementary school who happened to have transferred to my (our) college, but despite the shared experience at our...
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On NYCB’s 75th Fall: Leadership, Youth, and Deviation
This fall, NYCB kicked off the celebration of their 75th anniversary dedicating the entire season to the work of George Balanchine, the company’s co-founder and artistic realizer. On the night of...
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Meghan Moe Beitiks on Prague Quadrennial 2023
It’s twelve years since I saw my last Prague Quadrennial, the international exhibition, festival and symposium of Performance Design and Space (PQ). By its own description, the PQ has “evolved into a...
View ArticleThe Theater(s)We Need Now
Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what life is like, I know...
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Creating New Futures: A Statement in Solidarity with Emily Johnson & Calls to...
Square image with black background and hot pink text centered in the image. The text reads # (hashtag symbol) No More Harm. The hashtag symbol and the words No More Harm are next to each other with no...
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John Gutierrez’s view from Miguel Gutierrez’s “This Bridge Called My Ass”
Miguel Gutierrez, Alvaro Gonzalez, Evelyn Sanchez and John Gutierrez. Photo by Paula Lobo For many years I’d been told that I should meet Miguel. So often I sort of just refused. There aren’t that...
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in spite of safety and comfort: Perforations Festival round up
Maria Magdalena Kozłowska, Agnieszka Kryst, Robert Wasiewicz, Katarzyna Sikora, Ramona Nagabczyńska and Pawel Sakowicz in “Make Yourself” by Marta Ziółek’s (seated behind mask) In the middle of Bruno...
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Downtown Icons, Non-Consenual Relationships with Ghosts, & Passages
Downtown Icons Panel at La MaMa – Susana Cook, Karen Finley, Maura, C. Carr, Kate Bornstein & Holly Hughes Photo by John Issendorf Someday, if the Earth survives this oligarchy’s drive to suck the...
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The Dump (or Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest): He’s Our President, He’s Our Problem at...
Once upon a time, way way back in the 1900s, 4 artists sued the National Endowment for the Arts for defunding their Solo Theater, Individual Artist Fellowships. Though deemed, unanimously, to hold the...
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Monchichi @ BAM
Photo by Grant Halverson @ ADF Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez, of Wang Ramirez, are often presented as cross-cultural navigators, both in their performance styles and in their personal lives. Wang is...
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Congregation of Survival – Lost and Found Platform continues
Survivors stand startled in the glaring light of loss, but bear witness. – Elizabeth Alexander (from The Light of the World) Davalois Fearon werks in “the skeleton architecture, or the future of our...
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