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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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 …
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, …
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 …
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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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
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 …
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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This writing was published as a part of Danspace Project’s Volume II of PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, a virtual catalogue that contains memories and reflections of the multi-week Platform. Read an excerpt below, and read the full essay here, on page 27. In the sanctuary, teetering on the edge of performance, we expand …
I am in Green-Wood Cemetery, on my birthday, beside my parents. We are planted on a grassy slope among stone grave markers, eyes trained on Eiko–my mentor, employer, former professor, who I haven’t seen in six months. I haven’t seen her because of the pandemic, because so many people are dying. It feels right we …
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NORA RAINE THOMPSON 