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Jesse Zaritt on Faye Driscoll’s “You’re Me”
Jesse Zaritt and Faye Driscoll in “You’re Me”. Photo by Steven Schreiber. We pushed our bodies beyond their capacity in every rehearsal, our senses of self were similarly driven far beyond the point of...
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Malloy’s Manifesto or Silent Dave Speaks His Mind
After Culturebot’s Long Table discussion at Under The Radar, “The Theater of Tomorrow, Today“, Dave Malloy followed up with an email to us that turned into a manifesto that we thought was great. We...
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Looking towards Latinamerica // Expanding our notions of how theater is made
Participants in Panorama Sur, Buenos Aires. Julian Mesri is to the far right. I have always had a close but complicated relationship with my homeland of Buenos Aires–a place I was lucky to visit almost...
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THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THEATER (OR, DEVISE THIS!), Part III
[This is Part III of III. Part I is available here. If you’ve been following Culturebot, you may be asking what happened to Part II? The answer is I skipped it for now. Coming out of our discussions...
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Not Everyone Is An Artist
Untitled [Everyone Is An Artist], Artist: Tao Wells So when I edited the third part of my essay on the Politics of Cultural Production in Theater, a bunch of stuff ended up on the cutting room floor...
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Whites Only (or, WTF is the deal with diversity in the performing arts?)
Apparently there’s been some kind of heated conversation going on in the punditsphere about diversity in the arts. A post on ArtsJournal by Doug Borwick called “Considering Whiteness” seems to be...
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THE BROOKLYN COMMUNE begins on March 24, 2013
“What if we look at economics as a collective creative design problem?” Amy Whitaker (in her introduction as moderator of a panel discussion on “Art, Money, & Politics” curated and produced by...
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Thinking Digitally: How The Social Web Is Changing Arts, Culture, Politics &...
Data Visualization graphic from The Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) When I posted my “Year End Orphans” article in December 2012, one of the questions I asked was, “Does the rise of a...
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Why It Sucks To Be Tim Sanford (And What We Could Do About It)
I wasn’t going to chime in at all but with all the folks FB messaging to ask me what I think about the NY Times ArtsBeat blog post on Tim Sanford’s response to audience reaction to Annie Baker and Sam...
View ArticleBuilding The Agenda: Report From Brooklyn Commune #1
I’m pleased to report that the first gathering of The Brooklyn Commune was a great success. We started off with inspiring presentations to a phenomenal audience of thoughtful, passionate, dedicated...
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Bourgeois Pretensions, or Biscuits and Gravy
Timothy Braun, Editor-In-Chief of New and Social Media for The Fusebox Festival, reporting from Austin, TX. Three days before he arrived in Austin, I sent Mac Wellman an email. I wondered if he...
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Time Share: It’s not a hole, we made it
Some of the organizers of Time Share relate the background on how and why this collaboration came to be. Tatyana describing Time Share to Buck Wanner, Siobhan Burke and Tara Willis in preparation for...
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Notes From Berlin (Part I)
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Heist at Staten Island’s LUMEN
On Saturday, June 15th, I witnessed the heist of $3,000. What follows here is a simple recounting of the facts, both as seen live and reported afterwards on Facebook, plus an interpretation of the...
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The Future of Performance: A Performance, Lecture
This is a talk on The Future Of Performance given by Andy Horwitz on July 26, 2013 at The Glasshouse Project in Brooklyn as part of the first Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival. Here are...
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Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal To The Contemporary Dance Field
Michele Steinwald, photo by Rino Pizzi Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced was originally published on the Walker Art Center...
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Dual Economies (Thoughts On Detroit)
“Dual Economies” was originally published on Aaron Landsman‘s blog thinaar.blogspot.com. My first visit to Detroit, in 1994, was also the first time I caught a glimpse of my future father-in-law John...
View ArticleCriticizing Private Foundations: Anti-Capitalist or Pro-Capitalist?
This essay was originally published by Angie Kim under the title “Is Criticizing Private Foundations Anti-Capitalist (I.E., Marxist) Or Pro-Capitalist?” on her blog Private Foundations Plus, where you...
View ArticleNotes From Berlin (Part II)
This is the second essay of two, inspired by my trip to Berlin. The first is online here. This essay is longer than the first, so you can download it as a PDF here and read it later. *** I’d been...
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