Category Archives: performance reviews

Media in Stages: NYC Performance Festivals 2012

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

It’s officially the age of media on stage. Well, maybe not officially, but that was certainly my feeling after seeing 12 shows, 2 films, and a couple of installations over 10 days of simultaneous theatre festivals in New York this … Continue reading →

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WWJD? – Procession by Torn Space Theatre

Posted on October 1, 2011 by

What would Jane’s Addiction do? Almost 150 years after Nietzsche pronounced, “God is dead,” we are hardly without our rituals. Some religious, some secular–repetition, community, and belief in something larger than oneself remain proven hallmarks of a satisfying life. Theatre, … Continue reading →

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Karen Finley’s *look*: performance & documentation

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

At the end of my last post, I wondered about whether documentation, particularly photography, might threaten to replace performance as the event-object itself. This has, I think, relevance to Erika Fischer-Lichte’s book on the ‘performative turn’ to the event as … Continue reading →

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PSi 16: performance, publics, & documentation

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

A good day here in Toronto. For those that are looking to follow the conference from afar, there’s live blogging at performancestudies.org and tweeting @psdotorg. For myself, I attended a panel on “Resisting Audience Assumptions” and chaired a panel on … Continue reading →

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Lipsynch by Lapage

Posted on July 6, 2009 by

Robert Lapage’s latest work, Lipsynch, premiered in London in 2008 and is currently on tour. I saw the show as part of the Luminato Festival in Toronto, June 9, but the nine-hour performance epic has several other North American appearances, … Continue reading →

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