Performing Arts Archives

1"Dolly Parton performs at 1973 dedication of Cordell Hull Dam" by NashvilleCorps is licensed with CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

The Audience’s Work Is to Listen: On Communication and Chaos

Anna Marie Shogren

On misreading, over-translation, nonverbal understanding, and the pitfalls of legibility

1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan

Dancer and choreographer Chitra Vairavan offers a blueprint for the decolonized spiritual, as a movement towards reflection, presence, and memory.

Performing Arts

3-22-2021

Politics and Performance from a Black Trans Perspective

Commarrah J. Yochanan

Performing Arts

2-22-2021

Impossible Performances

Charles Campbell

1Jasper Marsalis, Stadium, 2020. Soil, concrete, LED parking lot lights, light poles, skid steers. 146 x 117 x 12 feet. Image courtesy the artist and Midway Contemporary Art; photo by Aaron Van Dyke.

Performing Arts Visual Art

1-23-2021

The Convex (No Place Is or Ever Was Empty)

Alexandra Nicome

1"Dolly Parton performs at 1973 dedication of Cordell Hull Dam" by NashvilleCorps is licensed with CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Performing Arts Visual Art

1-22-2021

The Audience’s Work Is to Listen: On Communication and Chaos

Anna Marie Shogren

1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.

Performing Arts

1-20-2021

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan

1Ta-coumba T. Aiken, The Promise from the series NO WORDS (2020). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Literature Performing Arts

1-11-2021

Fire Water Word Wind Song

Signe V. Harriday

1Image by Tricia Heuring (2020).

Design Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

12-30-2020

Everything you do you must love: On curatorial practice driven by devotion

Tricia Heuring

1Photo by the author, May 2019.

Literature Performing Arts Visual Art

10-28-2020

Decolonizing the Invisible & Visible: Artists Illuminate the Potent Presence of Spirit in their Creative Practices

Sun Yung Shin

1Image courtesy of the author.

Literature Performing Arts

10-14-2020

In the face of Black death, I perpetually find myself slipping into an alternate dimension

Teighlor McGee

1Commarrah Bashar, Occupied Ancestor: Standing Cedars in Early Translight (2020)

Literature Performing Arts

9-7-2020

Elulin

Commarrah J. Yochanan

1Elizabeth LaPensée, Our Grandmothers Carry Water from the Other World (2016).

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

8-28-2020

Afro-Indigenous Futurisms and Decolonizing Our Minds

Juleana Enright

1Amoke Kubat’s Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Chair assembly and build workshop, in partnership with the Women’s Woodshop and the Water Bar, June 2019.

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

7-24-2020

REST: A Transatlantic Reflection

Ain Bailey, Sayge Carroll, Zenzele Isoke, Amoke Kubat, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, and Rehana Zaman