...Madison Moore In this article, Madison Moore discusses the work of choreographer Trajal Harrell, which critically crosses the downtown pedestrianism of postmodern dance with the high-fashion spectacle of uptown Harlem drag balls. By considering the social contexts of these apparently disparate...

... Boccarra (opposite): Romeo Castellucci s Inferno, Avignon Festival, Avignon, France, 2008. Photo: Christophe Raynaud de Lage a photographic retrospective 55 stilled lives 56 Toshiki Okada s Current Location, kaat Kanagawa Arts Theater, Kanagawa, Japan, 2012. Photo: Tsukasa Aoki (opposite): Trajal Harrell s...

... to the work of Socìetas Raffaello/Sanzio Romeo Castellucci and to the Polish master director Krys- tian Lupa. The magazine also commissioned and advocated for the younger American artists whose work built on experimental precedents: Annie Dorsen, Big Art Group, Michael John Garcés, Trajal Harrell, David...

... of the Humanities and the Arts, Walsh admits, “the rationale for break- Saint Joan ofthe Stockyardr, featuring Liz Harrell in the title role, Walsh ing away hasn’t really paid off - we haven’t pulled in really major as Pierpont Mauler, Brown directing, and a new musical score com- grants.” The result...

... 2014.22 For its hundredth issue, paj: The Journal of Performance and Art had a special section on “Curating Contempo- rary Performance,” featuring New York – based artists and curators Morgan von Prelle Pecelli,of more Trajalexploration Harrell, in Travissuch practices. Chamberlain, Culturebot, Ben...

... Harrell, Jean-Baptiste Lully, madison moore, #Blacklifeinitsinfinitevariety. soundz at the back of my head 85 Notes 1. Kimerer L. LaMothe, Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). 2. This text was written in January 2020. In February 2020, the county judge...

... and sexual difference. As in other recent critiques of postmodern dance by contemporary queer choreographers of color, such as Trajal Harrell and Raja Feather Kelly, the plain- ness and polish of minimalism appear as aesthetic registers of uncritical straight white subjectivity. Flamboyant...