All I see…

  by Christine Shan Shan Hou       When we drift we dream: such awakenings demand presence or awareness of being on the other side.         In Everything You See, there ...

Unrelated to St. Patrick’s Day

By Siobhan Burke Jean stood with her back to the pillar, her profile to the audience, looking into all that empty space in front of her. She extended one arm out behind her, lightly touching ...

Fancy Pants

Or: What’s So Queer About “a nigger on a horse”?: Applying queer theory to Django Unchained By Ryan Tracy Most of the critical response to Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Django Unchained, has centered primarily on ...

APAP Dispatch No. 3: The Headquarters

By Siobhan Burke   I am sitting at the threshold of the Expo Hall, where the performing artists (or their agents and managers, representatives and administrators, depending on what’s in the budget) have come to ...

APAP Dispatch No. 2: American Realnessing (I and II)

By Siobhan Burke I. Notes to self after Jeanine Durning’s inging: When you are standing again at the kitchen counter, scraping the honey out of the jar, waiting for signs that the water has boiled, ...

APAP Dispatch No. 1: Ancestral Plants & Animals

By Siobhan Burke So much has happened between then and now. The usher told Baryshnikov (oh look, it’s Baryshnikov) how much she loves “the space.” The critics clustered on the sidewalk, debating what they liked. ...

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