Looking Forward and Looking Backward with Aya Ogawa
Aya Ogawa explores how humor, family, sadness, and the Bachelor came together to help create their Obie Award–winning show The Nosebleed.
On the heels of a global pandemic, racial reckoning, climate crisis, and the threats to democracy, many contemporary performing artists are creating work steeped in healing, repairing communities, exchanging transformative live energies, and addressing layers of traumas through other forms. Performance as Healing considers the various ways today’s performing artists create work that serves artistic and therapeutic goals.
What is in the Text? Guy de Cointet and Big Dance Theater
Tim Griffin explores how the work of Guy de Cointet, a French artist born in 1934, who resided in Los Angeles from 1968 until his death in 1983, inspired and influenced Big Dance Theater’s newest work, The Mood Room.
Disparate Threads: A Conversation with Suzanne Bocanegra on Confronting Art Histories
Giving the artist lecture a twist with her work Honor, an Artist Lecture Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor stages a performance that tackles the concept of honor through the lens of one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s greatest tapestries. In the lead up to the work’s presentation at the Walker, Bocanegra discusses artistic process, the collaborative nature of live theater, and the joy of falling down research rabbit holes.
Creating a Radioactive Practice
A behind-the-scenes look at the process Abby Zbikowski and her collaborators used to create their rigorous, highly physical exposé of identity and culture Radioactive Practice.