How has the pandemic has changed theater, aside from the obvious fact that live audiences are currently forbidden? At this point it’s impossible for plays to rehearse. People cannot gather…
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still from the film Rosas Danst Rosas, directed by Stefaan Decostere These days everyone in my life seems to have an obsession: wormeries, reusable tissues, queer Tinder bios in rural…
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This is a five paragraph essay about the five positions • This essay will explain something • in particular how dancer-choreographer Simone Forti inserted the personal in her work but…
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1. During Sibelius’ Symphony #2, horses gallop on distant pastures. Waves lift the reeds and muscles trade with trembling strings. I smell leather. Hollows fill and water splashes from hoof-beats.…
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Some Notes on Lara Mimosa Montes that I’m calling Visibility In-Storm On Saturday November 21st, 2017 as part of the momentous Thinking its Presence Conference in Tucson, Arizona, I attended…
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I can feel the back of my skull CRACK against the University of Arizona Poetry Center theater floor. I can feel the scream follow the rug burn from the tops…
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This essay is a lyric and a guess—thoughts about Wilma Deering and space opera and sound, because composer Pauline Oliveros said she loved Buck Rogers on the radio as a…
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FeaturedInterviewLiteraturePerformanceSingular Obsessions: Interview of Poet Oliver de la Paz on Playwright Joshua Young
Reading Joshua Young’s play, When the Wolves Quit, was a pivotal moment in my theatre career. I was an aspiring literary manger jaded by reading the same types of plays…
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The word “curate” has its roots in medieval Latin–cura “care” and curare “cure.” If curating now connotes choosing the right art for gallery walls, it began with a church curate…
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Do you have a fence around your house A wall marking the borders of your yard A gate to enter the premises How many doors locks alarms Is it your…