I witnessed nineteen performance in Aarhus. I sat in a what felt like a dozen venues, some of the nicest I have seen, and tried to receive what the Spring Forward 20 proposed.Read more
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
Maybe what we’re really asking of our audience is, hey, can you hold this for a second? Just as I often ask my husband to hold my bag when I run to the washroom or a friend to grab my jacket while I search for my wallet. Can you hold this?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
I am grateful to have differentiated, through this experience, between criticizing (Bikoret in Hebrew) and visiting (Bikoor). Neither good or bad, I allow my thoughts and feelings to manifest here in the context of being a visitor.
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
Shira and Anat Amrani took the beauty and virtuosity of two adamantly non-European forms – belly-dancing and Yemenite folk dance – and stripped them back of decoration, historicity and cultural context. They used what was left to craft a truly brilliant piece of contemporary performanceRead more
Rising is not the fanciest or most virtuosic piece, it doesn’t have dazzling costumes, props or music. It doesn’t want to impress you, shake you, manipulate you. It isn’t trying to be something. It simply is. And what it is is so much.Read more