Miriam Felton-Dansky is assistant professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College and a contemporary theater critic, with articles in Artforum.com, the Village Voice, TDR, Theatre Journal, and Theater, among other publications. Her first book, Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. She is writing a book about spectatorship in contemporary live art.
The Stakes of Contact: Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space & Come On In
“It’s not that Driscoll’s series is about isolation or pandemic any more than it’s solely about the death of one particular loved one. But Driscoll does shape a choreography for a moment that demands rethinking the stakes of human contact at both the molecular and the systemic level.” Theater critic Miriam Felton-Dansky considers Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming trilogy.