Reviews

Photo: Bill Hebert

Snowflakes, Sequins and Pearls: A Night With The Lady Hoofers

Sara Graybeal

Their charm was awkward and impertinent.

Photo: Lindsay Browning

It’s a Party in the USA

Jenna Horton

Milky Way comes into view softly and from the right.

Photo: Ian Douglas

Performing the Self in Rage – The Life of an Artist

Zornitsa Stoyanova

They rage, rant, and even party in an attempt to process the harsh realities of the life we live.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Spiel Uhr: En-Trance

Roxanne Lyst

Manfred Fischbeck described EN-TRANCE as an entry point into works in progress.

Photo: Scott Shaw

Ordinary Beauty, Ecstatic Beauty

Rather than creating a hierarchy between transcendence and earthly presence, Pavel Zuštiak’s work gives equal weight to both.

Photo: Ian Douglas

Jeanine Durning’s “inging” & “to being”

Published in collaboration with culturebot.org -- Rennie McDougall explains how "inging" is the word-equivalent of a Möbius strip.

Photo: Glenn Benge

Disorientation

Julius Ferraro

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.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Ballet Beasts: Animals All

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Our movement, our mating, our social veneer, and our violence barely sheathe our inner beastliness.

Photo: Constance Mensh

He is Chris, Chris he is, and he is beautiful

Lisa Kraus

Christopher Knowles’ performance brings us into his world, one that’s precise, repetitive, forthright, fantastical, and perhaps obsessive.

Criticism For Theatre’s Sake

Published in collaboration with culturebot.org -- an excerpt from Mark Fisher's 2015 book.