“Four women rise from the front row of the theater, shrouded in long, dark hair. They make high-pitched ghostlike moans and wails while slithering onto the stage. It’s a chilling beginning, and one that will stay with me for some time…”
My response to luciana achugar’s FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM in The Performance Club. Special thanks to Claudia La Rocco.
**Photo: Chrissy Passagno
“When writing about performance, I often feel caught between the body and the word. To attach language to bodies and movement is a complicated matter, calling into question the way words, grammar and syntax codify and enforce the body. A tinge of violence underlies this act of writing — a sort of pinning down of that which is constantly changing. More than a trace, writing marks the body.
I hesitate. I question. Racial identities within performance are too complicated to be pared down to the words black dance…”
My collaborative piece with Siobhan Burke on Platform 2012: Parallels, curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones at Danspace Project on Hyperallergic Weekend. Special thanks to Claudia La Rocco
**Photo: Ian Douglas
There’s shame in our passion and passion in our shame. Feelings may drag across the desert before being acknowledged or wanted. When these two women hold each other there is tenderness and vitality and a strenuous agenda. The love is there and vacant. It brews…
My response to Molly Lieber + Eleanor Smith: Beautiful Bone on The Performance Club.
**Photo: Brian Rogers
My review of Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show out now in the February issue of The Brooklyn Rail.
For a further discussion (that is both riveting and frustrating) around this show :
For ks, always & again
You get ideas and I do the heavy lifting
Or maybe that was Cuba talking
Shit in one hand, wish with the other…
I mean, how do you stand it?
I care nothing for rules
Dirty little tramp cocktail
But, you know, some people:
It just doesn’t come naturally to them
I’m going on my lunch break
I’ll take yours, too
Modern-day mythology it takes some getting used to
Darling. Don’t you know?
I do my best thinking on my feet
My insights are fueled by need
My American Realness notebook is up on The Performance Club!
