Images read: stina nyberg may hay while the sun shines like a preludeto the big story of everythinglike remembering the future whenhumans are symbols of themselveshumans are beautiful glitching actionfigures find pleasure in repetitionmischievous concepts of selves sweet make hay while the sun shines makes more sense once the solo suite tells the big story …
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Responding (notes app edition) to Audre Wirtanen , jaamil olawale kosoko, and Levi Gonzalez at Judson
Images read: audretell the story with franknessof the devastatingly fucked up worldthis world where glitter and cake adorn slow violence that keeps us wearytalking shit like it’s her job like her life depends on it like our lives depend on itbecause how else will we realized the magic trick that turns red to green and …
Responding (notes app edition) to Tere O’Connors Rivulets
Image reads: satisfying like drinking from a water fountainnot all at once but also all at onceunison can be hydratingbutterfly sweat stains andbodies in a rorsharch testi guess i like a ballet formationi guess i like a ballet formation when i can unfocus my eyes and just get blurs offgreen and flat hands and body …
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Responding (notes app edition) to Christopher “Unpezverde” Nuñez’s The Circle or Prophetic Dream
Image reads: technicolor billowed circlesbodies bare and light readybodies cloaked in relics in masks in tiny houses the twang of a jawbone being struckproduces a twitch in my bodya spasm like the memory of bone the slow fade the slow cresting wavethe full full full silence in the darkoh how i love the moment before …
Brooklyn Rail: Sharing Opacity
This writing was published in Brooklyn Rail’s November 2022 Issue as part of “VESSEL: Seeing Double,” parallel reviews by Noa Weiss and myself of David Thomson’s new work, VESSEL, which premiered at The Chocolate Factory in New York in October 2022. Read an excerpt below, and read the full interview on Brooklyn Rail’s website. One performer, …
Responding (notes app edition) to Mina Nishimura’s Mapping a Forest while Searching for an Opposite Term of Exorcist at Danspace Project
Image reads: is the opposite of an exorcism an incantation? laughing bones of a building laughing ghosts of a building gasping through them how do you listen to ghosts how do you cast a spell incomplete and unbotheredtrails in sand snails leaving slug tracksshard of bone twitchingpraying for a silly ghost i didn’t do iti …
Responding (notes app edition) to Fana Fraser’s MINDSEX at Abrons Arts Center
Images read: mindsex waiting for it to move you waiting for it to speak thru auras and ghosts couldn’t watch some spit spots nauseous honey viscous sweet tongue spittle burp mind fuck – perpetual opening nora is anxious what are we there for? whose sex? starting stopping getting distracted can’t decide can’t decide getting confused …
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Responding (notes app edition) to Rashaun + Silas’ RETROFIT: a new age at Danspace Project
Image reads: retrofit improv worlds are so fun colorful cluttered full especially when on edge of life real arched feet betray the dance things are falling eyes scanning lets ruin it together
Responding (notes app edition) to Storyboard P’s No Diving 2 at Performance Space New York
Image reads: storyboard p how do you get in the zone? i look for where i’m lying to myself smooth and shaky precarity, often near edges he keeps surprisingwhen he slows down ahout on bailshoes often skimming audience members, gentlyeddie on stage, his mother weepingsmiles and eye contact and watching yousee me seeing you i …
Brooklyn Rail: In Conversation with Audre Wirtanen
This writing was published in Brooklyn Rail’s April 2021 Issue. Read my introduction below, and read or listen to the full interview on Brooklyn Rail’s website. On March 5, 2020, Audre Wirtanen danced through a stage of props—an IV stand, clipboards, doctor’s chairs—recounting experiences of mistreatment and misdiagnosis from systems that promised care. She impersonated …
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NORA RAINE THOMPSON 