The perfect dance critic does not exist. […] The perfect dance critic knows when it’s time to quit, change careers or retire. -Miguel Gutierrez, The Perfect Dance Critic Let’s be honest first, I am no expert on this matter. A 23 year-old college graduate, I have never landed any sort of stable jobs in dance criticism. […]
A few days ago, pornography made it to the headlines of several mainstream news organization in quite an unexpected manner: “Florida lawmakers refuse to debate assault rifles, but say porn is dangerous,” reads the title from CNN. Amidst the vehement public pressure to push for gun control reforms in the wake of the most recent […]
This article is first published in UrbanApa’s Blackness and the Postmodern. Foreword I am an emerging choreographer and performance theorist, born/raised in Vietnam, currently studying and working in the U.S. My current scholarly research interest lies at the intersection of choreography and pornography, where I look into pornography’s mobilization of bodies and affects in a prescriptive […]
The festival features dance, theater, performance, and song-based performance artists who employ experimental tactics in their performance works. These include performative realness, self reflexivity, make believe, transformation, the ecstatic body, and an interplay between spectacle and banality. The artists of American Realness are creating theater that engages audiences with a rich perceptual experience of light, […]
*No white men are harmed in the writing of this guide. You don’t have to be a white man to write like a white man. White women can write like a white man. Asian men can write like a white man. Multiracial non-binary folks can write like a white man. Ironically, a lot of white […]
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