Reviews

Photo courtesy of Icebox Project Space

Make Way for the Lesbian Feminist Killjoys

Maddie Hopfield

Traveling performance like this mobilizes and conjures the LGBTQIA+ community of each city it’s in.

Photo: courtesy of the artist

The School for Temporary Liveness Misses the Mark

Kat J. Sullivan

Perhaps, in a true analogy to a school, I left feeling unsure that I’d learned anything new at all.

photo: Aidan Un

Finding Breath in Our Altars: Reviving Black Bodies

L. Graciella Maiolatesi

Jones, standing behind the podium, echoes Garner’s words, and I can feel the air being sucked from the room.

Photo: Ryan Collerd

Museums in the Performance Mix

PMA’s Friday Remix offered circus, poetry, dance, and music, capped off by a DJ-driven dance party.

Photo: Courtesy TBDC

Look Up!

Maddie Hopfield

The easy alignment of the joints, so quintessentially Trisha Brown, dangles unadorned above Center City.

Photo: Lynn Matluck Brooks

In Motion: TBDC in Time and Spaces

I find myself puzzling out Trisha Brown’s strategies, asking questions, making discoveries.

Photo: Andrej Lamut

Cowboys Chugging Red Bull in Iraq

Mira Treatman

The epic two-hour escape provided ever more evidence of U.S. pissing contests.

Photo: Mira Treatman

Living Statuary

Miryam Coppersmith

Leah Stein Dance Company captures the beauty and ambiguity of staged realism in Close to Home.

Photo: Mark Wong

Dance Like Dr. Z’s Watching

Miryam Coppersmith

You are Not a Shining Star: "weird but not boring."

Photo: Cass Meehan

Classified Texting

Whitney Weinstein

I stepped closer to listen in on whispered conversations.