Issue #49

Fall 2016

Cover of Issue #49

This issue ended up being completed much later than anticipated. So, as you move through the content of this issue, keep in mind that the majority of content was generated prior to November 9, 2016. The results of the 2016 Presidential Election have shifted global, national and local affairs and perception of government overnight. Times are uncertain. Is this the end of an era or a beginning of a new one? Continuity perhaps ruptured and yet not at all.

I am stupefied by all of it, which makes writing this note an especially difficult task. One thing seems certain: complacency is over. We have to work for democracy, protecting the environment and human rights. Here are some words from Frederick Douglass: 

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Maybe as we read, simultaneously and separately, we can gather in telepathic resistance, argument and conversation.

Editorial team

Editor-In-Chief

Moriah Evans

Managing Editor

Lauren Bakst

Design

David Knowles

Contributing Editor

Matthew Lyons Macklin Kowal Katy Dammers David Watson

Copy Editor

Conor Creaney

Ad Layout

Kat Norcutt

Heather Meehan Benedict Nguyen

Articles

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Bodies in Revolt

We were celebrating two birthdays at Dinosaur BBQ after a full week of rehearsals and filming. It was loud, and given the size of our party we had been seated...

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An Allegorical Essay

Author’s Note: This text is my response to a dissonance caused by a reality of competition over limited resources, against the sense of oneness embedded in our shared love for...

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Open Letter to Jan Fabre

On February 11th, 2016, Belgian artist Jan Fabre was appointed Artistic Curator of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival by Greek Minister of Culture, Mr. Aristides Baltas. The following letter is...

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Biennale Danza 2016

Compared to the internationally established and widely respected Venice Art and Architecture Biennales that alternate each year, the Venice Dance Biennale (Biennale Danza) is less known and promoted, not only...

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Tanzkongress

The closing panel of the 2016 TanzKongress, held in Hannover, Germany, brought together the artists and scholars who had been invited to speak and lead workshops as a part of...

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Editor’s Letter

This issue ended up being completed much later than anticipated. So, as you move through the content of this issue, keep in mind that the majority of content was generated...

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Diamond Life

4 October 2016 Debra Levine To live in intimacy with a stranger, not in order to draw him closer, or to make him known, but rather to keep him strange,...

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Caen Amour: The Hoochie Coochie

Anchored to thought, genetically programmed to explore unforeseen or not-thought-of territories in dance, Trajal Harrell is foremost—essentially and exceedingly—an actor of performative forms. Understanding that this idea does not mean...