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Disorientation

Four short pieces, though they differ wildly in tone, form, humor, movement, and medium, use deliberately counterintuitive elements to evoke mystery, suspense, and even confusion.
November 22, 2015
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Ballet Beasts: Animals All

Our movement, our mating, our social veneer, and our violence barely sheathe our inner beastliness.
November 22, 2015
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He is Chris, Chris he is, and he is beautiful

Christopher Knowles’ performance brings us into his world, one that’s precise, repetitive, forthright, fantastical, and perhaps obsessive.
November 20, 2015
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Criticism For Theatre's Sake

Published in collaboration with culturebot.org -- an excerpt from Mark Fisher's 2015 book.
November 17, 2015
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Oh and Anne Teresa

Boris Charmatz strides out and then you, Anne Teresa.
November 16, 2015
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Dancing Detours

Los Angeles is infamous for its traffic. The evening of work that LA-based company BODYTRAFFIC presented at the Prince Theater felt congested.
November 11, 2015
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On Not Bowing

Published in collaboration with culturebot.org, John Hoobyar writes about the expectation of bowing or not after the show.
November 9, 2015
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Trisha Brown Revisited

The early '70s pieces remain stridently current, thanks to the timeless quality of Brown’s work.
November 6, 2015
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