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Category: Performing Arts

Dolly Parton stands on a stage in front of a microphone with a guitar, wearing a pink jumpsuit. Men in decorative brown suits are behind her on the stage by instruments, an audience is sitting in chairs behind them, and a body of water and green mountains are in the background.
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

Tags: audiencelanguage
Photo of two women draped in white fabric rolling down the stairs of Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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.

Tags: decolonizationliberationlisteningprocessspirituality
Person with dark skin and short locs gestures in front of their face and looks at camera, with interior of barber shop in background.
Performing Arts
10-19-2021

Each One, Teach One: Footwork in Minnesota

Wills Glasspiegel
Line drawing of beaker reading "HARM" funneling into test tube labeled "HELP."
1Grant Kirkpatrick, Harmful Chemistry, 2021.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
10-11-2021

The Ticking Crocodile: Performative Accountability in Cultural Institutions

David Valentine
Dark room with projected pattern of purple and gold light, wash of red light on floor and wall, and two chairs in shadow.
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
Composite image in four quadrants, with drawings of organic forms, landscape, and photo of plants.
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
A man and young girl standing on a bridge over a river in a forest with many trees
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
Silhouette of a person with fist raised, with fire glowing in background.
1Photo: 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
Three beams of red light over a crowd on a dark dance floor, and a white fan raised above the crowd.
1Photo: Sharolyn Hagen.
Performing Arts Visual Art
5-26-2021

Love Letter to the Minneapolis Underground

Lindsey Scharold
Silver boom box in front of background with vertical orange stripes.
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
Many zines in neon colors spread out on a surface, with a prominent drawing of a face.
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
Mx examines themselves in a dark dressing room mirror holding their light.
Performing Arts
3-22-2021

Politics and Performance from a Black Trans Perspective

Commarrah J. Yochanan

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