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Photo: An evening with Simone Forti, K.J. Holmes and Daniel Lepkoff And a conversation with the artists moderated by Wendy Perron. "Sundays on Broadway" Cathy Weis Projects Performers: performance photographed: Sunday, June 4, 2017; 6:00 PM at WeisAcres in SoHo, 537 Broadway, #3 (between Prince and Spring Streets) NYC; Photograph: © 2017 Richard Termine PHOTO CREDIT - Richard Termine
Photo: Richard Termine
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Simone Forti—A Remembrance

Eric Schoefer
  • "Notice what you notice"
On a dark smokey stage littered with fruit loops and rocks, two dancers whip their hair forward from a wide second position plie (legs wide, turned out, and bent), their hands smacking their thighs. The dancers are dressed like it’s the 70s and they’re going to the club: one in an orange halter jumpsuit with sparkly fringe, the other wearing tall silver heeled boots, purple booty shorts, and a fluorescent green shirt with flared sleeves.
Photo: Maria Baranova
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Friday Night Rat Catchers Suck The Titties Dry

Xander Cobb

Lisa & Lena’s dance theater extravaganza is disgusting and impeccable.

Five dancers rest their cheeks on one another's shoulders in a long, diagonal line. They cup one another's elbows and stare directly into the camera.
Photo by Daniel Sohn
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Birdsong and Being

Megan Mizanty

It’s okay to stop and watch the world turn.

Edu Dìaz dressed in an ornate gown with a big white lacy collar stands speaking to the right. Behind them is a bluye projection of what appears to be someone screaming. The projection is framed by a red velvet curtain.
Photo by Ruby Goldner
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The Theatre Begs for Exploitation

Nadia Ureña

Her majesty desperately wants us to consume the beast.

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A young person with shoudler length red hair stands in a green long sleeve shirt hodling a blank white sign. onthe left a large mural of a female face looking up, and scales and lotus flower.
Photo: Amelia Candeub
  • Reviews

Notes from Within Blank Placard Dance, Replay

Jonathan Stein
  • Protest, a living legacy and a committed practice
Dancers stand close together, forming a clump. They face in all directions, their bodies back to back, front to back, and back to side. Each one grips a wooden post holding high attached white posters. They wear bright yellows, purples, reds, blues, pinks, teals, and oranges. Some are visibly sweaty. Dancers facing the camera look serious and a bit fatigued. Glimpses of blue sky, clouds, a street, and city buildings fill the cracks between their blank signs.
Photo: Amelia Candeub
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Is Halprin’s postmodernism as radical today as it was in 1967?

Xander Cobb
  • Blank Placard Dance, Replay in Philadelphia
Three women in faded blue and white jumpsuits stand supporting or leaning into each other. Marcie Mamura stands in the middle; she looks down and away, the only face visible in the group. Chloe Marie embraces Mamura from behind. Katherine Kiefer Stark supports Mamura from the front, also in an embrace. The three women create a quiet, intimate, peaceful tableau. Bright light illuminates their bodies against a dark, shadowed background.
Photo: Bridgette Ivkovic
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The Naked Stark’s Deep Dive Enchantment at the Water Works

Jonathan Stein
  • ‘swimming through the stars or schools of fish’
Delwin Elk Bear Fiddler kneels with one arm outstretched to the left and the other bent across his body holding a wooden pipe. Fiddler wears bright attire with multicolored strips of ribbons and a yellow feathered headdress. He kneels on a brown animal hide near a drum and several piles of plastic hoops in a blackbox theater.
Photo: Joshua Crone
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The Chief Called Upon the Grass Dancers to Purify the Ground, and the Tradition Lived On

Caitlin Green
  • Dance and oral tradition of the Lakota people
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Two women standing in a spotlit space, each with a yellow top and white pants with the taller, Zoe Rabinowitz, gazing aside, embraces and holds Mary McGrath to her chest, one arm around her blond hair, the other around her back, her face buried in Rabinowitz’s chest.
Photo: Sara Radin
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Two tD Writers + Two Fringe Shows — A Reflective Conversation

Jonathan Stein
  • Dance and theater from artists/daughters address their mothers’ dementia.
Photo: Colleen Sirisky
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‘Time of Truth’–A Coming of Age Dance

Rhonda Moore
  • The entire cast jockeys between individual and collective truths.
Photo: Sam Tower
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New Maps from the Fringe Festival

Ellen Chenoweth
  • What new connections and directions emerge this year from the Fringe Festival's explosion of artistic expression?
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
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We Are Moses

Kalila Kingsford Smith
  • Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group's Moses(es) brings to life the nature of leadership within a community.

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