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by Christine Shan Shan Hou Gertrude Stein once said in a radio interview: “if you enjoy it, you understand it.” I return to this statement every now and again, like a lucky charm. I have ...
Andrew Horwitz On a related and intriguing side note to my essay on Cultural Production, etc. My trustee research assistant told me that a dancer friend of his moved to nyc 7 years ago and ...
By Aaron Mattocks Download a copy of this essay “On that glittery globe called the art world, performance is an impoverished country, generally unsupported by prestigious museums and rich collectors.” So wrote Cynthia Carr in ...
By Robert Tyree TBA:12 has hit the road, but Portland’s still here. Wanna watch the dust settle? After 10 days waking up for the Time-Based Arts festival—dive-bombing stoplights on my bike to get less late ...
By Robert Tyree For 10 days each of the last 10 Septembers, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Arts Festival has run rampant in a city often peripheral to considerations of contemporary performance. TBA’s ...
I hope you all rested up this month. Really savored it. Spent lots of time “journaling,” or whatever it is kids are calling it nowadays… Because September, as we all know, is back-to-theater time. Here’s ...
“…A work not technically considered dance but happening in and influencing dance in New York.” So reads the qualification on two awards given out by the New York Dance and Performance Awards (The Bessies). What exactly ...