Our children enter the world to upstage us. Their youth marks the waning of our own, their innocence points to the disappearance of our own. The freshness of a baby is entrancing, and it works as a tonic on most adults around. We can so easily forget ourselves when faced with our children.Read more
After a thought-provoking collaboration with Project 48, CW will pair up with the Curtain Up Festival. Two members of the CW circle will attend each of the four “curtains” and will publish their response here. More to come soon! Read more
Why do we always want the performance to go to the edge? Why do we ask a woman who has just informed us she is pregnant to jump off a plastic chair in order to reach the ceiling? Why is “explode” the first thing we ask of the clearly angry performer? Why does control always lead to some kind of humiliation or abuse?Read more
I wonder- is it even possible to have an uncivilized conversation in this situation? Is the participation of the audience in this show a choreographic manipulation meant to distract the viewer or is it a build up to the directed, “uncivilized” conversation that follows? Read more
I realize that it’s going to be a very interesting evening
The lights are out and I am waiting excitedly to see
What the Project 48 people have concocted for us
Above all, there was that same loneliness that Agadati spoke of. The same inner grief that attacks when cracks of doubt and question marks begin to appear, the worry of not being understood,
and the loneliness that accompanies it.Read more