Bob Fosse is the only theatre artist who has won eight Tony Awards for choreography and one for direction, an Academy Award, and an Emmy. Dan Friedman considers Fosse’s impressive although spare film legacy.
DISTILLERY interview with Kesha McKey and Scott Heron
8 August 2015
Emilie Whelan facilitates an interview between dancers Kesha McKey and Scott Heron about age, visibility, and setting their choreography on the bodies of other dancers.
Urban Bush Women and Junebug Productions with support from the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans' Performance Support Program presented Urban Bush Women and Voices from the Bush with special guests Sunni Patterson, Craig Harris, and Rhodessa Jones livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 25 July at 7 p.m. CDT (New Orleans) / 8 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).
Dance/USA—the national association for professional dance—presented the Opening Plenary of the Dance/USA 2015 Annual Conference in Miami livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 18 June at 7:30 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 9:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10:30 a.m. EDT (New York) / 14:30 GMT / 15:30 BST (London).
The author on three musicals that have opened on Broadway this season, all descended from movie musicals that the MGM movie studio made in the Technicolor era.
The National Dance Center Bucharest, Romania presents Cosmin Manolescu & Mihaela Dancs’ Piece with limited responsibility livestreamed from the LIKE CNDB #1 Festival on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 21 March at 10:30 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:30 GMT/UTC (London) / 18:30 CET (Paris) / 19:30 EET (Bucharest).
The Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC presented the world premiere of MindFluctuations livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 19 March at 8 p.m. EDT (New York) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 5 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).
Camille A. Brown presented The Gathering 2015 livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 11 January at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York).
A Non-Verbal Theatre Performance from the Temps d’Images Festival
Sunday 16 November 2014
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Colectiv A in Cluj-Napoca, Romania presented Hotel, a non-verbal theatre performance representative of the Romanian New Performance Wave livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 November at 10:30 a.m. PST (San Francisco) / 1:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 18:30 GMT (London) / 20:30 EET (Bucharest).
Today my guest is the inestimable Liz Lerman. Listeners may mostly be familiar with Liz through her Critical Response Process, which is in use around the world as a system for managing the feedback process around new work. We get into her current thinking around this work, first developed when she was making work through her company, Dance Exchange. Liz is now a freelance dance and theater maker and educator and was the originator of an ambitious multi-institutional project commemorating the Civil War—a project still underway.
Nothing stirs my blood quite like the soft knock of toe shoes on a wood floor during a piqué. And so I admit, I may have exhibited a little too much enthusiasm when Laura, four, expressed a passing interest in taking a ballet class this summer.
Matt McGeachy writes about Modern Times Stage Company's Forgiveness: A Theatrical Poem, an intense movement piece exploring the dialetic between forgiveness and forgetting.
My guests are Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the team behind Big Dance Theater, New York. I was interested in hearing them talk about the ideas underpinning their decades of collaboration and how they have maintained a space for themselves in these times and in the blurry, hybrid world their work inhabits. Listen to audio podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. Subscribe in Apple iTunes or via RSS Feed.
Andrew Alexander offers tools for appreciating the art and value of live performance while reflecting on gloATL's 2013 public art project, Liquid Culture.
Performance and Panel Discussion Featuring Six Native Hawaiian Artists
Friday 19 June 2026
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Spanning contemporary dance, music, theater, spoken word poetry, and interdisciplinary practice, the evening highlights the depth and dynamism of Native Hawaiian creative expression grounded in indigeneity, cultural practice, and innovation.
Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.
