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NYC as Global City: A Decade of Change
A recent Facebook conversation about the proposed plans for the WTC PAC brought the performing arts sectors’ lack of systemic understanding glaringly to light, most notably that so many Facebook...
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Performing the Archive and Building Community In Real Time (Parts 1&2)
The following essay was published in two parts in Animating Democracy’s May 2014 Blog Salon “Back To The Future: Forward-Thinking Documentation and Archiving“, edited by Jamie Haft, who posted a...
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How to Have a Slightly Better Chance at Getting a MAP Grant
This essay was originally published on the ArtistsU blog. Image courtesy of Andrew Simonet As someone who applied to the MAP Fund many times in the past (and sometimes got it), I learned a lot by...
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I finally put together a bunch of my essays into one anthology. I used iBook author, it is probably riddled with errors, they are published pretty much as-is.* A more authoritative, edited book is...
View ArticleSeen and Heard In San Francisco
We’ve been hearing a lot about San Francisco in the mainstream news, on social media, and anecdotally from friends and colleagues. From Google Buses to the layoffs at Intersection for the Arts, we hear...
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Goodbye To All That, For Now
Andy wearing his favorite Satan t-shirt & bad facial hair circa 1996 As some of you may have heard, I’m leaving NYC shortly after Labor Day. The idea of leaving NYC after almost 20 years seemed...
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Fixing American Arts Philanthropy, Part 1
A frantic crowd of people (Photo CC by Superlekker, originally posted to Flickr) “Fixing American Arts Philanthropy, Part 1″ was originally published as “Fixing American Arts Philanthropy: 1. Accept...
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Fixing American Arts Philanthropy, Part 2
“Fixing American Arts Philanthropy, Part 2″ was originally published as “Fixing American Arts Philanthropy: 1. Don’t Sabotage Artistic Merit” by SF-based composer Aaron Gervais on his blog. “Jenga!”...
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Fixing American Arts Philanthropy, Part 3
“Fixing American Arts Philanthropy, Part 3″ was originally published as “Fixing American Arts Philanthropy: 3. Fund Exsiting Needs, Not Make-Work Projects” by SF-based composer Aaron Gervais on his...
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DANCE AS POLITICAL REFUGE
This is a personal account of dancing on Hydra written during R.I.C.E. on Hydra, a gathering of artists dedicated to the “choreography of humans.” One of the Freedom Dances, as so shamelessly proposed...
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Letter from the Editors
Lydia Mokdessi and Sarah Rose Leonard Dear Culturebot readers, We’ve been here for months but we haven’t yet introduced ourselves. Whoops. Hello! As many of you know, Culturebot founder Andy Horwitz...
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Seeing Double
Culturebot contributors Stormy Budwig and Tara Sheena explore the dialogue-as-criticsm form of performance review. In their conversation, they speak about the work of Alex Rodabaugh and Rakiya Orange...
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The subjectivity of good: Ayad Ahktar’s The Invisible Hand
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar at New York Theatre Workshop. Photograph: Joan Marcus Playwrights Kevin Armento and Jerry Lieblich recently saw Disgraced on Broadway together and totally disagreed...
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Theatre Shop Talk Abounds at “Crisis to Creation: A Town Hall on the Future...
Photo Courtesy of the Segal Center Live, innovative local theatre has always been a vibrant and cherished New York City tradition, far beyond the lights of Broadway. Adages about starving artists have...
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Modern Dance Is Not A Pyramid Scheme: Tere O’ Connor Responds
A recent, widely-circulated article in DanceUSA’s e-journal asks “Is American Modern Dance a Pyramid Scheme?” Its author, Sarah Anne Austin, questions if modern dance is turning into a “pyramid...
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Looking for Work in All the Wrong Places Or: How I Stopped Believing in...
The author would like to acknowledge that it has now been many months since the events written about below transpired and that he is exceedingly self-conscious about the possible loss of urgency and...
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Daily Life, Everlasting Nonsense
Photo by Rosalie Baijer Recommended reading: “Dan Safer on Interpreting Charles Mee” by fellow Culturebot-er Jeremy M. Barker on Dan Safer, the director of Daily Life Everlasting by Charles Mee at...
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Outcry!
Apparently everyone in LA blew up over it (see that here). The Wooster Group has been infamously quiet about it. It’s said that on average 1 out of 6 people walk out of it and have been since 2012....
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Writings: Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in...
Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the ninth installment of Danspace Project’s guest-curated Platform series, was held over February 14-March 28. Guest...
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Kimberly Bartosik’s “Ecsteriority4 (Part 2)” @ Abrons Arts Center
Kimberly Bartosik’s Ecsteriority4 (Part 2) premiered at Abrons Arts Center last week in a program titled Travelogues, curated by Laurie Uprichard based on works she has encountered while traveling....
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