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    MOVING PEOPLE: Ishmael Houston-Jones on His Favorite Post-show Meal + How He Starts His Curation
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 11
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Ishmael Houston-Jones on His Favorite Post-show Meal + How He Starts His Curation

    After all these years, one thing I still love about New York is this: ___________. Ishmael Houston-Jones: I’ve never had a driver’s licen...
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    IMPRESSIONS: La MaMa Moves! Online, Featuring Kevin Augustine and Tamar Rogoff with Mei Yamanaka
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 8
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: La MaMa Moves! Online, Featuring Kevin Augustine and Tamar Rogoff with Mei Yamanaka

    For all our griping about the pandemic, and there’s been plenty, when you step back, we’re lucky it happened in 2020, rather than, say, 2...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Molissa Fenley on Contributing to World Peace and Picking Haruki Murakami's Brain
    Erin Bomboy
    • Dec 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Molissa Fenley on Contributing to World Peace and Picking Haruki Murakami's Brain

    After choreographing 85-plus pieces, I still find inspiration in ___________. Molissa Fenley: walking in to the studio, or actually reall...
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    Company XIV's Austin McCormick on "Nutcracker Rouge Cocktails and Burlesque at Home"
    Erin Bomboy
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Company XIV's Austin McCormick on "Nutcracker Rouge Cocktails and Burlesque at Home"

    It doesn’t feel much like December without the Nutcracker, so why not give a new type of performance a try, one that’s more spice yet sti...
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    IMPRESSIONS: “Crutch,” a Documentary about Bill Shannon by Sachi Cunningham and Chandler Evans
    Erin Bomboy
    • Nov 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: “Crutch,” a Documentary about Bill Shannon by Sachi Cunningham and Chandler Evans

    The first half of Crutch — co-director/producers Sachi Cunningham and Chandler Evans’ documentary about the multi-disciplinary artist Bil...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Daniel Gwirtzman on Maintaining a Company for 20+ Years, Optimism as a Choice & More
    Erin Bomboy
    • Nov 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Daniel Gwirtzman on Maintaining a Company for 20+ Years, Optimism as a Choice & More

    My motto is ___________. "if you can’t see the glass is half-full, try new lenses.” I make an assumption that optimism is a choice, that ...
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    EMBODIED LIFE: Stanton Jacinto on Transitioning from Dancer to Social Worker and the Role Improvisat
    Erin Bomboy
    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    EMBODIED LIFE: Stanton Jacinto on Transitioning from Dancer to Social Worker and the Role Improvisat

    Communication and building relationships are ongoing leitmotifs in Stanton Jacinto’s life. They’ve held fast from when he was a budding d...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Chelsea Ainsworth on Producing Shows, Finding Connection, and "Singin' in the Rain"
    Erin Bomboy
    • Sep 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Chelsea Ainsworth on Producing Shows, Finding Connection, and "Singin' in the Rain"

    If you were trapped on a deserted island and could choose one performance to watch for the rest of your life, what would it be? Why? Hard...
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    The Dance Enthusiast Hits the Virtual Streets: Stephen Petronio Company's #LoveSpreadsFaster
    Erin Bomboy
    • Jun 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Dance Enthusiast Hits the Virtual Streets: Stephen Petronio Company's #LoveSpreadsFaster

    Life has shrunk in 2020. Time is a loop that spins endlessly, like a top that won’t stop. Space has collapsed to the confines of our home...
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    IMPRESSIONS: Kimberly Bartosik/daela’s “through the mirror of their eyes” at New York Live Arts
    Erin Bomboy
    • Mar 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Kimberly Bartosik/daela’s “through the mirror of their eyes” at New York Live Arts

    For fifty minutes, the future intertwines with the present, and we’re all the better for it.
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    IMPRESSIONS: Catherine Gaudet’s “The Fading of the Marvelous (L’affadissement du merveilleux)”
    Erin Bomboy
    • Mar 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Catherine Gaudet’s “The Fading of the Marvelous (L’affadissement du merveilleux)”

    The walking sequence is simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
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    IMPRESSIONS: Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeonwing Dance’s “Plexus: a work in knots” at John Jay College
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeonwing Dance’s “Plexus: a work in knots” at John Jay College

    Although plexus derives from the Latin word for braid, what it really looks like is a lacy web. These branching networks of nerves and ve...
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    IMPRESSIONS: Thomas L. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE’s “Soundz in the Back of My Head” at Gibney
    Erin Bomboy
    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Thomas L. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE’s “Soundz in the Back of My Head” at Gibney

    Approximately three-quarters of the way through his Soundz at the Back of My Head, Thomas L. DeFrantz makes a distinction between listening
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    IMPRESSIONS: E/D’s “amplifying the nothing” at Triskelion Arts
    Erin Bomboy
    • Jan 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: E/D’s “amplifying the nothing” at Triskelion Arts

    amplifying the nothing is a work of remarkable efficiency
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    IMPRESSIONS: "Sènsa" by Paul Maheke with Nkisi and Ariel Efraim Ashbel at Abrons Arts
    Erin Bomboy
    • Nov 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: "Sènsa" by Paul Maheke with Nkisi and Ariel Efraim Ashbel at Abrons Arts

    In the Bantu language, the word sénsa means “coming to visibility,” “to appear from far away,” and “to reveal itself.” It seems like a wo...
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    IMPRESSIONS: William Forsythe’s “A Quiet Evening of Dance” at The Shed
    Erin Bomboy
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: William Forsythe’s “A Quiet Evening of Dance” at The Shed

    Quiet isn’t silent, and choreographer William Forsythe knows the difference. In his A Quiet Evening of Dance at The Shed’s Griffin Theate...
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