Reproductions: One View of Twin Cities

Reproductions: One View of Twin Cities

Fall lingers, with warm days and fiery trees, longer nights and frosty mornings. Daylight has changed, striking us at more oblique angles, lengthening shadows even at noon. I follow my shadow farther and farther from my center, looking back to where I stand, doubling,...
What can be done with dance? Pt. 4: taisha paggett

What can be done with dance? Pt. 4: taisha paggett

Recently, I was fortunate enough to be in conversation with artist-choreographer taisha paggett. Paggett, who splits her time between Chicago and LA, is one of the many Chicago artists to be included in this year’s Whitney Biennial. If you’re in New York this week be...
Layering of Slices: ATOM-r Presents The Operature

Layering of Slices: ATOM-r Presents The Operature

  By Autumn Hays This past Friday I attended The Operature an exhibition by the collective ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality) at the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago. This exhibition was held in two parts an interactive installation and 90...
What can be done with dance? Part 3

What can be done with dance? Part 3

The choreographic writings of performance and political theorist Randy Martin are rooted in an understanding of dance as an analytic with which to approach socio-political mobilizations. In “A Precarious Dance, a Derivative Sociality” he writes, “For dance to...
Episode 426: Monique Jenkinson

Episode 426: Monique Jenkinson

http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_426-Monique_Jenkinsen.mp3 download This week: This week Brian and Matt Sussman talk with Monique Jenkinson, whose work draws from dance, theater, performance art and drag. Hot topics include: staging a...