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I Want/I Vomit
On May 12, 2015, Gibney Dance hosted a panel titled “Dance Criticism in New York.” The event was moderated by dance writer and blogger Eva Yaa Assantewaa and included fellow dance writers Rose Ann...
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Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green
Photo by Dennis Cahlo Katy Rubin, Executive Director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC; Moon Lowery, actor and facilitator; and Maaji Newbold, actor, responded to Freight through conversation, sitting on...
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The NEA at 50 and The Death of the Public Good
President Lyndon Johnson signs the legislation creating NEH and NEA. Fifty years ago this September, the NEA was established, in the words of Mark Bauerlein, editor of National Endowment for the Arts:...
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The Radical Pleasure of Convening: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko & anonymous bodies’...
“…the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing.” Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic Power Audre Lorde The difference between poetry...
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Furious Capitalism or Fascist Consumerism: Notes from “Pylade”
We, the citizens of Argos day after day, we construct our future. The income of everyone of us has doubled. The trade of our city has multiplied: our products impose themselves in the markets of the...
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Down on the ground and out on the streets: towards cultural equity
Brother(hood) Dance! Everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society. – from Americans for the Arts: Statement on Cultural...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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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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“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...
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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