Kids is a staged documentation of sorts of the death of Liu’s mother. Throughout the piece, recorded conversations between Liu and his late mother are played. These talks touch on her impending death, on memory and on family history. Like life, they don’t always follow a clear path.
The audience, though illuminated, were in no way motivated to do anything. To participate in something, one must act. Here there was no action, only the clarification and emphasis on our inactivity.Read more
I’m very different in normal life. I feel the same inside but I present something else, I come out as something else. In real life I’m very hesitant, unconfident and on stage I’m not. On stage, I lose it.Read more
The appropriation of contemporary dance into pop culture both strengthens and weakens our form. We love the exposure but feel angry that those benefitting from our hard-won aesthetics and practices are not the true owners. Tourists not citizens. We don’t see bigger audiences at Revelations because of a twirled umbrella in Formation. Read more
Back at home, Barcelona-based Vicens Mayans gives a round-up of highlights from International Exposure. Read more
Pictures of Common Emotions by Yasmeen Godder: Pictures of After Show Spaces: ROBERTO CASAROTTO Since 2006, Roberto has been director of the dance projects for the Centro per la Scena Contemporanea di Bassano del Grappa (CSC) and Operaestate Festival Veneto. Associate director of Aerowaves, he is aRead more
I could feel all of the thought Dadon put into that bag of popcorn and its torrid interaction with the silvery microwave. I could imagine him planning the coming action, the popcorn bag handed gently to the audience member seated closest to the stage and the slow journey it would make through the crowd, delighting each and every viewer with one, perfect, buttery kernel. What a wonderful addition that would make to the UX of the piece.Read more
‘…Laughing is the closest thing to crying, when laughter is genuine I believe there are values in what generates it.’Read more
‘3 white dresses, 5 white shirts, 5 pair of black trousers, nearly 200 light bulbs hanging, different languages spoken, eight performers.Read more
Creative Writing is honored to collaborate with the Suzanne Dellal Center, bringing the voices of the guests of International Exposure to website. Read more