I have been responding to performances in note (and sometimes poetic) form since 2020. Recent responses (since fall 2025) are now collected through my substack, “engaged to dance,” which you can read and subscribe to here. Recent substacks are updated as well, here:
Archived responses, from 2020-2025, are here:
- Responding to Nora Chipaumire at BAM
- Responding to Clara Furey at City Center
- Responding to Mette Ingvartsen at Akademietheater
- Responding to Maia Chao and Lena Engelstein in Times Square (but on video)
- Responding to Marion Spencer at NYU
- Responding to Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Morgan Gregory, and Paris Cullen at the Judson Church
- Responding to Jo Warren at The Brick
- Responding to Lena Engelstein and Lisa Fagan at New York Live Arts
- Responding to Ishmael Houston-Jones (and Fred Holland and AJ Wilmore and Stephanie Hewett and Kris Lee) at Danspace Project
- Responding to Hana Van Der Kolk at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
- Responding to Hayley Stahl at Target Margin Theater
- Responding to Miguel Gutierrez at New York Live Arts
- Responding to Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1 (again)
- Responding to Malcolm-x Betts and Nile Harris at Chocolate Factory
- Responding to Amelia Heintzelman at PAGEANT
- Responding to Nora Alami at JACK
- Responding to Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
- Responding to Niall Jones at Danspace Project
- Responding to Ariel Lembeck at Kestrels
- Responding to Eiko Otake and Margaret Leng Tan at Greenwood Cemetery
- Responding to Ashley R.T. Yergens at New York Live Arts
- Responding to Pep Talk (Marin Day and Maddie Hopfield) at Kestrels
- Responding to Stacy Grossfield at The Chocolate Factory
- Responding to ligia lewis at CARA
- Responding (notes app edition) to Faye Driscoll’s Weathering at New York Live Arts
- Responding (notes app edition) to Julia Antinozzi at The Judson Church
- Responding (notes app edition) to Stina Nyberg’s Make Hay While the Sun Shines and Sweet at PAGEANT
- Responding (notes app edition) to Audre Wirtanen , jaamil olawale kosoko, and Levi Gonzalez at The Judson Church
- Responding (notes app edition) to Tere O’Connors Rivulets
- Responding (notes app edition) to Christopher “Unpezverde” Nuñez’s The Circle or Prophetic Dream
- Responding (notes app edition) to Mina Nishimura’s Mapping a Forest while Searching for an Opposite Term of Exorcist at Danspace Project
- Responding (notes app edition) to Fana Fraser’s MINDSEX at Abrons Arts Center
- Responding (notes app edition) to Rashaun + Silas’ RETROFIT: a new age at Danspace Project
- Responding (notes app edition) to Storyboard P’s No Diving 2 at Performance Space New York
- Responding to Eiko’s A Body in a Cemetery
- Responding to Audre Wirtanen’s DX ME FIX ME
- Responding to remembering Okwui Okpokwasili’s Sitting On a Man’s Head
- Responding to Melinda Ring’s Strange Engagements
- Responding to Aki Sasamoto’s Phase Transition
NORA RAINE THOMPSON 