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Tina Lange’s photograph of Nikhil Chopra as Yog Raj Chitrakar documents part of Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX, a 72 hour performance and perpetually transforming work unfolding November 4-8, 2009 in the gallery at the New Museum in New York, as … Continue reading →

American Realness on Friday featured Jeanine Durning, Faye Driscoll, Tony Rizzi and Miguel Gutierrez all pushing in their own ways. I want to crawl inside Durning’s head after experiencing her impressive nonstop speaking improvisation inging, which seems to emerge from lines of … Continue reading →

A Sunday marathon at American Realness instigated thoughts about consent, the public sphere and collisions among artists. The refined schedule and pace of Ben Pryor’s festival feels welcomingly more spacious and navigable than last year. Spending the day with Jack Ferver, Maria … Continue reading →

The festival. The art binge. An international crossroads of culture mafia mobilizing in time and place. At conclusion, the individuals disperse with refreshed senses to digest, address and generate contemporary performance in a multiplicity of locales and moments. With bold … Continue reading →

In advance of her company’s West Coast premiere of A History January 25 and 26 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), Bebe Miller made a visit to San Francisco in November, part of Performing Arts Director Marc … Continue reading →

During her 20 years of creating theatrical and humorous work in the Bay Area, Chris Black describes her shift from creating works for the stage to developing intricate site-specific dance in public space as intentional. This shift has allowed her … Continue reading →

As Turbulence rolls into New York Live Arts this week for its final stop on the fall tour, the performers will adopt a new architecture with a fresh set of ground rules for the staged collapse of Keith Hennessy’s dance. … Continue reading →

With recent appearances at PICA’s Time Based Art Festival in Portland and Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, Turbulence continues to shift, with three local artists added to the core group at each location. The “collaborative failure” orchestrated by Keith Hennessy opens at … Continue reading →

WHEN YOU LOOK at a white-walled cube or empty courtyard, do you see a performance space? If you knew the history of every hundred- or thousand-year-old painting, sculpture, and anthropological record in a museum, would you envision bodies in motion, … Continue reading →

Shuttling from the Bay Area to disparate regions of Africa, dance professionals Janice Garrett, Byb Bibene Chanel, Kristine Elliott and Joti Singh use the art form to power exchange. Their trips with four distinct missions all share the thread of … Continue reading →