Review: Fun Home and on Why Art Should be Dark
Since I arrived with negative two minutes to spare before the lights went down and the actors of Broadway show Fun Home got going, I had...
Hiplet: Hip-Hop-Ballet or Neither?
The videos of young African-American girls body-rolling and hip thrusting across a dance studio in pointe shoes surfaced on my Facebook...
How to Save Ballet
Crystal Pite's Emergence begins with a woman quietly convulsing on the floor. Her whole body quakes as her partner—a shirtless hulking...
Dancing Max Richter
For the solo Nicole created on me for HATCH Presenting Series (April 30th, come!), my first performance with Buggé Ballet (pretty...
Why the pretentious French title?
Why Escritoire de l'Art? Well, "Culture Desk" was already taken, but I'm pretty delighted with myself for coming up with a title that's...
Eat the Art, They Said
On Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Met Bruer Installation: "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) I'm holding a piece of someone's body in my hand....
Book Review: The Swerve
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt I opened this book knowing it to be nonfiction. Twenty pages in, however,...