Ritual and Connection

Korean dance artist Dohee Lee in Oakland, CA discusses her approach to making ritual performance and how it is rooted in community, especially her most recent piece, "Mu," which explores themes of connection.

July 25, 2019  |  Read Article

Conversations, Processes and Insistences

An Interview with Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater is an artist who works in performance and is based in northern Ontario, Canada. She has exhibited in museums, videos and installations in Canada and abroad. Her work centers Indigenous knowledge production in and through orality, conversation and embodied practices, including dance. […]

January 3, 2019  |  Read Article

Archiving and Authoring at the Margins

An Interview with Mariana Valencia BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT, PHOTOS BY IAN DOUGLAS Mariana Valencia is a choreographer in New York who combines theatrical and performative techniques with her interest in ethnography. Here she discusses her focus on marginality, how writing informs her performance practice, and her questions about archiving and […]

November 12, 2018  |  Read Article

Shifting Geologies, Sifting Forms

An Interview with Shebana Coelho BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOS BY GENEVIEVE RUSSELL Shebana Coelho is a writer and performer originally from India who now resides in Santa Fe, NM. Her current project, The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects, combines flamenco, Sanskrit theater and spoken text, and explores themes of colonization, indigeneity […]

September 20, 2018  |  Read Article

Why Choose?

An Interview with Non-Binary Choreographer Syniva Whitney Syniva Whitney is an experimental choreographer and interdisciplinary performance artist. They make work inspired by their non-binary transgender and black multiracial identity. Embodiment practices, dance improvisation and sculptural choreographic techniques are a part of their method. Gender Tender is the name Syniva gave to their […]

July 30, 2018  |  Read Article