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Category: Performing Arts

Four people with dark skin are lit on dark stage. One is sitting with mouth open, one is reaching, one is looking up, and another is embracing the others.
1Leslie Parker Dance Project, Call to Remember, 2020. Pictured, left to right: mayfield brooks, Amara T. Smith, Vie Boheme, Leslie Parker. Photo: Adriana Foreman.

Call to Remember Methodologies: Reflections

Naimah Petigny, Leslie Parker

On methods for conjuring Black Space and dance improvisation as a way to access collective memory and ancestral wisdom

Tags: activismcollaborationdanceimprovisationlineageMemorypedagogy
Many bodies entwined and bathed in green light.
1ORGIE, Entrenar la Fiesta, 2017. Photo: Nicolas Dodi. Editing: Julián Dubié.

Eruption of the Possible/Erupción de lo Posible

Pedra Pepa

A conversation with Buenos Aires-based choreographer, stage director, and cultural agitator Silvio Lang: on seismographies of the present, counter-hegemonic and sex-disobedient practices, and the resensualization of the social fields

Tags: activismcommunitydanceinstitutionspublic artqueertheater
Digital illustration of a crow hovering over blue water, with starfruit in foreground, mountains in background, and a cloud of gold flakes in the air.
1UyenThi Tran Myhre, chia vàng, May 2021.
Literature Performing Arts
1-9-2023

Be Sweet, Stay Gold

UyenThi Tran Myhre
Black woman with yellow turtleneck and pink glasses stands between stove and kitchen island, gesturing with open hands.
1Marcela Michelle. Photo: Uche Iroegbu.
Performing Arts
12-19-2022

Anchovies, Rice, and Beans

Mecca Bos
Two people stand in front of gallery with red and yellow visible through windows, teal door and sign reading HAIR and NAILS.
1Ryan Fontaine and Kristin Van Loon, 2022. Courtesy HAIR + NAILS. Photo: Emma Beatrez.
Performing Arts Visual Art
12-9-2022

Do It Different: HAIR + NAILS’s Approach to an Artist-Run Gallery

Jake Yuzna
Two black and white portraits side by side, of people with medium dark skin and faces turned to camera with slight smiles.
1Leslie Barlow (left) and Sayge Carroll (right), 2022. Photo: Ajamu.
Performing Arts Visual Art
12-2-2022

Portraits, Practice, Pleasure, and Process

Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Ajamu , Sayge Carroll, Leslie Barlow
Person wearing black dress and high heels strikes pose in wooden barn with string lights, large rug, and chairs on walls.
1Vie Boheme. Courtesy Everwood Farmstead.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
11-21-2022

Refuge and Rejuvenation: Artist Retreats of Minnesota and Wisconsin

Sheila Regan
Person sleeps on floor mat with pillow, inside tent-like structure made of white string.
1Peng Wu, Sleep Chapel, 2019. Pictured: Boris Oicherman. Courtesy Weisman Art Museum.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
11-16-2022

Institution as Living Artist, as Can Opener, as System Change

Miranda Trimmier
Illustration of stand-up comic with dark skin and glasses playing keyboard in front of audience, bathed in purple light.
1Talthau Lo, 2022.
Performing Arts
10-3-2022

Ha!: On Comedy, Performance, and Laughing for the Right Reasons

Devohn Bland
Two actors sit next to each other onstage, with set design including stalks of wheat and blue projection.
1Marisa Carr and Ajuawak Kapashesit performing in Almighty Voice and his Wife, 2018. Courtesy Turtle Theater Collective.
Performing Arts
9-1-2022

Turtle Theater Collective: Storytelling as Connection

Jake Yuzna
Many bodies entwined and bathed in green light.
1ORGIE, Entrenar la Fiesta, 2017. Photo: Nicolas Dodi. Editing: Julián Dubié.
Performing Arts
8-24-2022

Eruption of the Possible/Erupción de lo Posible

Pedra Pepa
Performer holds microphone and faces beams of purple light.
1Performer at a Dark Energy event. Courtesy of Dark Energy. Photo: Caleb Timmerman.
Performing Arts
8-12-2022

Dark Energy: Collective Effort, Communal Release

Jake Yuzna
Performer with bleached blonde hair and white makeup kneels with head back in front of drum set, with purple and blue lighting above.
1Performer at a Dark Energy event. Courtesy of Dark Energy. Photo: Caleb Timmerman.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-8-2022

No Approval Required: Twin Cities Alternative Art Spaces

Jake Yuzna
1Photo: Chris Koza.
Performing Arts
7-11-2022

The Secret Life of Christopher Koza

Youa Vang

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