“We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez.
Performance
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Inside Brooklyn’s Very Own Immersive “Clown Cult”
The bi-monthly variety show gathers both newcomers and veterans of the craft to help participants discover “the power in cringe.”
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At the River to River Festival, Performance Is Everywhere
A sonic protest against colonial politics, a conceptual ice cream tasting, and other live and participatory experiences headlined the annual New York City festival.
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An Abortion-Oriented Cosmology Tale Debuts in NYC
Alexandra Neuman’s latest performance, The Collective Womb, reframes abortion as a natural exchange of energy between the body and the world.
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Kate Bornstein’s Life Through Four Dimensions of Gender
A freewheeling interview with the 76-year-old trans activist, artist, playwright, actor, and OG gender outlaw.
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Social Tensions From Antiquity to the End of the World
The trials of a post-apocalyptic New York and hedonistic Rome become one another’s mirrors and choirs in The Industry’s double opera Comet/Poppea.
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A Public Performance Series Aims to Combat “Climate Despair”
At the Queens Botanical Garden, A Fun Play About How Scary Climate Change Is illuminates possibilities for collective care and grassroots change.
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Benshi Performers Pass Along a Way of Thinking
Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films.
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Glass House Is a Dance of Drama and Domesticity
Performers carried one another the way we shoulder our friends, lovers, and family: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.
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Carlos Amorales’s Fragmented States Envisions a Hopeful Future
With this performance, Amorales reconciles the hopes and disappointments of generations past with our present reality.
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The Black Choreographers Dancing Toward Justice
“Dance is a healing modality,” choreographer Dr. Shamell Bell said. “And we need to heal ourselves in order to heal this world.”
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The Celestial Songs of Spiritual Women Across the Ages
Shakers mingle in this multimedia production at the New York Choral Society.
