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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
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

Qamar Yochanan

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