Alex Smith experiences Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take, an immersion in sound, poetry and dance in a darkened ICA with black screens alive with white words of poetry and the sounds of bodies moving but unseen.
Read MorePublic Citizens for Children and Youth’s Picasso Project rounds up excellent art projects for your wee ones and children of all ages in their downloadable art ed at home toolkit.
Read MoreAlex Smith speaks with L. Graciella Miaotalesi about the curated series The(se) Black Experience(s) which explores the myriad of Black lived experiences and aims to address issues of imposter syndrome that may arise for Black people navigating spaces of identity.
Read MoreMorgan Nitz speaks with Colombian sculptor and performance artist María Leguízamo about vertigo, exhibiting in Bogotá, her membership in the collaborative music and art project, “Peebls,” and more!
Read MoreIn this Artblog post, Alex Smith interviews artist and dancer Vichte-Boul Ra. Smith says Ra’s performances are immersive, captivating, and a must see. Catch Vitche-Boul Ra in a performance/film collaboration with Rush Jackson, in “Hotter in July; I just may burn you in August,” Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, 6-9 PM, Icebox Project Space, 1400 N. American St.
Read MoreRoberta interviews Sifu Chik Mason and Rhashea Lynn Harmon-El about their practice of Pa Kua Chang (Bagua), a spiritual practice of movement and choreography that is more than 300 years old, with roots in Taoism.
Read MoreFlora Ward visits BalletX’s Spring Series, reviews the three pieces in the program and articulates the show’s highlights and a few shortcomings with poetic descriptors. She applauds the shadowy finale, which left her speechless. This series ended on March 17th, 2019, so make sure to catch BalletX’s Summer Season, coming up July 10-21.
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