The World In Small Groups
Once you notice it, you can’t stop seeing it – the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?
Worst Sex Ever and the WYSIWYG Talent Show, or Tales from Blogland
In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in person? The 4th in a series of essays about live events and small group experiences.
From Black Box to Broadway
Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!” in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of “Black Box to Broadway”. Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
One Thing into Another: A Conversation with Alaina Ferris and Karinne Keithley Syers
Then Eamon yes-anded by saying, “By the way, I found this vibraphone on the street that I want to take apart.” So then we deconstructed the vibraphone.
From Storefront to Stadium
That time I saw Nirvana in 1991. Or, what happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
An Interview with Jesse Freedman on “The Banality of Evil” at The Brick
“Banality of Evil, as a phrase,” Jesse Freedman the Artistic Director of Meta-Phys Ed. told me on the phone last week, each of us speaking from our respective Brooklyn apartments, “is more popular than its source material. We spoke about his current show at
The Effect: The Sublimity of Performance
If it weren’t for my erudite Anglophile cousin, I would never have known to see Lucy Prebble’s The Effect at The Shed (from March 3-March 31). An early Prebble fan, she one day turned on I Hate Suzie during one of our cousin hangs– usually
An Evening of Rhythm and Double Consciousness With Nimbus Dance
Currently mounted at Nimbus’s Firmament Gallery + Boutique is “Sometimes I Wander…” an exhibit displaying the photography of Life Magazine’s first Black photographer, Gordon Parks, and staff photographer at The Source, Chi Modu. The gallery, which regularly features local and Black art, showcases images of Blackness, Americana, and Community: Hip Hop.
Satori in a Storefront
That time I saw Kristen Kosmas in 1992 and it blew my mind. The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.
ON HOLDING AND (UN)LOCKING: CHOREOGRAPHING THE IRISH DANCE ARCHIVE IN Jean Butler’s What We Hold
There is a photograph of my grandad and three of his brothers taken in Dublin in the early 1930s; the brothers stand in a row and pose with their arms firmly placed by their sides or their hands on their hips. They wear what are
Gil-Sheridan & Weiss discuss THE SKETCHY EASTERN EUROPEAN SHOW
at the end of the day, the concept of “bastardizing your own culture to get ahead” is not a new one in this country – I’d just never seen it done within an Eastern European context
Joey Merlo’s On Set With Theda Bara: An Embodied Physical Performance and A Window Into An Artist’s Mind
The first time I saw David Greenspan perform was in Adrian Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch this past spring at the 122 Community Center in the East Village. I didn’t know of him or his lore, but in the one scene in which he appeared, it