Critical Correspondence
Moving Pictures
by Clarinda Mac Low In this quest to determine the traces of performance, one of the most important questions is…what is performance, anyway? This is a mushy question, and even attempting to answer it could bog me down in a series of unprovable conjectures, so I will posit the absurdly subjective statement—it’s performance if it […]
Going to Church
by Clarinda Mac Low Just about a week ago I was walking around on a Sunday morning, seeing, as one usually does on a Sunday morning in my neighborhood, people walking to and from church. As I watched a group of elderly church-goers, clearly friends, walking arm-in-arm, suddenly I got it. Of course! Church! (or […]
From the Inside Out
by Clarinda Mac Low For the first few posts on this blog, I spoke of the effect of performance from the outside in, as a spectator. However, I am also a practitioner, and recently I had a performance experience that I will work with here as a view on this subject from the inside out. […]
What’s In a Name?
by Clarinda Mac Low I haven’t written in a long time—it’s been an eventful couple of months. However, not writing doesn’t equal not thinking feeling watching and thinking some more. I have a whole host of “posts” built up in my brain, and they will be bleeding out onto your screen over the next few […]
Beginning the Investigation
by Clarinda Mac Low Happy New Year. I have had the following thoughts rattling around in my head for a while, and I am finally bringing them out. What do we take away from performance? I begin the investigation by example. What follows is not by any means a review, but a highly subjective internal […]
Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS #4 – “Why We Love Action”
Mette Ingvartsen’s Why We Love Action On November 23rd I went to Leuven, Belgium (1/2 hour from Brussels) with some classmates from PARTS to see Why We Love Action at a theater called STUK. The work was by Mette Ingvartsen, a former PARTS student, who at a very young age has gained major acclaim as […]
Taking the Imperfect Leap
by Clarinda Mac Low This is the beginning of an investigation. My advance publicity said that I would use this blog to explore the traces that performance leaves behind, both temporary and permanent. The preliminary questions I proposed are “What ideas and shifts in experience do we transmit, knowingly and unknowingly, through performance? How do […]
Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS – Introduction
by Milka Djordjevich Through my artist residency at Movement Research, I have the unique opportunity to be a guest student at PARTS in Brussels for one month. From what I know, I don’t think there has been any guest who has taken class longer than 2 weeks. So this is something new not only for […]
Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS #2
Introduction Through my artist residency at Movement Research, I have the unique opportunity to be a guest student at PARTS in Brussels for one month. From what I know, I don’t think there has been any guest who has taken class longer than 2 weeks. So this is something new not only for me, but […]
Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS – Vincent Dunoyer, “Sister”
by Milka Djordjevich I was recommended to see Sister at the Kaaitheater, choreographed by Vincent Dunoyer, particularly because he will teach a workshop that I will take at PARTS. I went to see the performance on Saturday, November 17th – my first day in Brussels. The Kaaitheater is a beautiful art deco building, with a […]
Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: P.A.R.T.S. #3
Vincent Dunoyer’s Sister I was recommended to see Sister at the Kaaitheater, choreographed by Vincent Dunoyer, particularly because he will teach a workshop that I will take at PARTS. I went to see the performance on Saturday, November 17th – my first day in Brussels. The Kaaitheater is a beautiful art deco building, with a […]
Correspondence from Daniel Linehan: Thoughts About “Not About”
The following are excerpts I’ve selected from my journal, writings that I have made while working on creating my solo, “Not About Everything.” They are not about my creative process so much as a way of navigating through some of the ideas that have come up during my process. My very first thought about this […]
Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: P.A.R.T.S. #1
Bio and Links Milka Djordjevich is a dance artist and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. She was raised by Serbian parents in Long Beach, California and received her B.A. in World Arts & Cultures and minor in Italian from UCLA in 2002. In 2003, Milka relocated to New York to attend the MFA program […]
Correspondence from Kate Mattingly
Sanctuary I moved to Europe six months ago, with an article written by Gia Kourlas about the lack of a dance capital today still fresh in my mind. The longer I live abroad, the more I see the truth in her words. Perhaps the proximity of different countries, the easy accessibility of a flight to […]
Responses: RoseAnne Spradlin’s NOVA
by Michael Helland Two words: “F*** You” over and over and over again. Okay, so this was actually in the tail end of 2005 – NOVA by RoseAnne Spradlin. A looping cascade of performers traverse a wooden plank, at the end of which an aggressive “F*** You” is directed out towards a singular point in […]
