Obsolescent Performance: Tercer Cuerpo/Timbre 4 at the MCA

Obsolescent Performance: Tercer Cuerpo/Timbre 4 at the MCA

Tercer Cuerpo,the claustrophobic experimental play by Argentinian company Timbre 4 opening at the MCA next weekend, takes place, according to director Claudio Tolcachir, in “an office that doesn’t have any more reason for being, its services have no meaning.” ...

Process Notes: An Introduction

Guest Post by Hannah Verrill I’d like to use this bit of time-space to introduce a series of posts that will use process as a way of looking at and unpacking a handful of contemporary performance practices. Each segment exists first as an encounter between an artist...
Geometric Qualities : An Interview with Jaye Rhee

Geometric Qualities : An Interview with Jaye Rhee

  I am accustomed to diminishing the importance of an individual dancer’s history in the course of a staged performance. Unconsciously, it’s as if I imagine performers congealing for a moment on a stage in order to manifest the agenda of an invisible...
What is a performance archive?

What is a performance archive?

As audiences, when we speak of performance we are speaking most often about the glimpses acquired in the act of witnessing. We are speaking to our experience as it lies bound up in the delineation of time and space that is the act of performance, the curve that...