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.

1Rosy Simas, yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place for rest), 2021. Image courtesy All My Relations Arts.

Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

9-18-2021

Circular Healing

Juleana Enright

1Credit: Clockwise from top left: Cecilia Ramón, courtesy the artist; Kathy McTavish, courtesy the artist; Catherine Meier, courtesy the artist; Tashia Hart, courtesy the artist.

Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

8-20-2021

Curating in the Hedgerows

Annie Dugan

1The author and her father. Photo by Ezra Olson.

Literature Performing Arts

8-13-2021

The Smell of Paradox and the Disequilibrium of Loss

Kaya Lovestrand

1 Photo: Adja Gildersleve.

Performing Arts

8-2-2021

The Aftermath of Performative Allyship: A Century Comparison

Malick Ceesay

1Photo: Jenny Zander.

Performing Arts

6-25-2021

Axiom, Idiom, Maxim: Proposals for Queer Critique

Marcela Michelle, Kat Purcell, Yoni Tamang

Performing Arts

6-4-2021

Imaginary Conversations with Mary Overlie

Erin Search-Wells

1Photo: Sharolyn Hagen.

Performing Arts Visual Art

5-26-2021

Love Letter to the Minneapolis Underground

Lindsey Scharold

Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

5-21-2021

Freestyle, Hook & Repeat: Hip Hop Innovation as a Blueprint for the Survival of Those Whom the World Would Much Rather See Dead

Tish Jones

1Zines at the Tretter Collection, September 2018. Image courtesy of the Tretter Collection.

Design Literature Performing Arts Visual Art

5-19-2021

Let the Record Show: Lessons for Artists in Movements

Aegor Ray

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