The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre’s "The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes" at REDCAT
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:54AMBuilding arts and culture infrastructure? Here are some lessons learned from a community-based cultural asset mapping initiative in South Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48AMIf the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:48PMOnce you notice it, you can't stop seeing it - the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:24AMIn 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in pers…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:02PMDaniel Fish's "Oklahoma!" in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of "Black Box to Broadway". Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venue…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:42AMWhat happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AMThe first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:36AMOkay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what lif…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:49PM600 Highwaymen's "A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly" is one of 2022's most remarkable works of theater.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:36AM"Ain't Too Proud" is more than just a jukebox musical.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:42AMThe critic or artist who wants to be trusted must be willing to be vulnerable and flawed; she must be willing to be wrong. She must be willing to risk. And it is no less terrifying for the c…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:24PMPhilosophery Alva Noë joins Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham at CounterPulse in SF
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:10AMThe following is an excerpt from Chapter 20 (pp. 261 – 264) of Mark Fisher’s book How To Write About Theatre, published by Bloomsbury and released in paperback in August, 2015. …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:40AM“When are we artists and when are we everyone?" The answer, of course, is that artists are always everyone, we are members of a greater Public, and it is in acknowledging this that artist…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AMAndy's report from Festivals Edinburgh and the Momentum Symposium.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:13PMAndy reports back from London's Dialogue Festival: Talking/Making/Taking Part
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:18PMAndy shares some thoughts on Bach, Counterpoint, The Enlightenment, Programming Languages and Aesthetics.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:23AMAndy's "Five Lectures on Performance" are now online at Vimeo, SoundCloud and iTunes.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:21AMLos Angeles Performance Practice and The Bootleg Theater present The Second Annual Live Arts Exchange (LAX) from September 11 - 21, 2014
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:08PMA candid conversation on performing while black and male. With Germaul Barnes, Whitney Hunter, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Andre Zachery.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:07AMThis article was originally posted on the blog Ephemeral Objects: Art Criticism for the Post-Material World, made possible through the funding of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundat…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:46PMTalking dance, tech and media with Aniccha Arts.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:29AMAndy talks to Troika Ranch's Dawn Stoppiello and Mark Coniglio
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:14PMAndy lectures on how creativity, collaboration and improvisation are central to the creation of Democracy in America.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:18PMDownload Maximum Performance (BETA) Andy's collected essays 2011-2013
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:31PMTwo essays on Performing the Archive and Building Community from Animating Democracy's May 2014 Blog Salon.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:44PMLisa Rinehart profiles Wendy Whelan as part of her "Moving Forward" video series.
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