Much like the contained intensity of a therapy room, limbo offers a venue parallel to reality in which the soul can confront its deepest shames and the self-reproaches. Playwright Brendee Green avoids the comforting myth that love can heal all wounds, instead exploring the circumstances in which a soul might forgive themselves for ambiguous transgressions, or might choose not to return to their body at all.
Read MoreA grandly chosen champagne-soaked farewell role for esteemed principal dancer Xiao Nan Yu, The Merry Widow is a rare piece that gives a company the chance to show off while managing to unite comedy and drama. This effervescent world of forgivable excess is studded with moments of sincere, rapturous yearning between the two leading couples.
Read MoreWith thrilling range and dancers that move as both wave and particle, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre staged five enchanting works with an ensemble of promising young students. Featuring two world premieres and recent hits from five diverse choreographers, these works examine contemporary issues such as toxic masculinity and ancient preoccupations like achieving higher consciousness and communion with the unknown through live performance.
Read More“She wants me all for herself. I know you want to help, but Harrow knows that too. She’s already f_cked with your life. She knows how to drive you away. And she will.”
Read More“I told the story of reality to myself as if it were a fiction, for to be immersed in anything less would have burned the skin off me neatly as real uranium.”
Read More“She felt Arcturus’ desire in her bones as deeply as she had that fateful matinee when the vaulted frescoes had split above them. Even if it now inverted towards another.”
Read MoreThe brain has mysterious ways of healing itself, and this was mine. About a year ago I finished a crafting project inspired by Sharon Needles, and I’ve never shared it with other fans because it was such a personal reflection of my own transformation. Her courage and integrity as an artist provided a latticework on which I could heal myself during the most difficult, isolated period of my life. The transfusion needle that weaves through the work was its central driving metaphor: Sharon gave me what I needed to heal myself when I was broken.
Read MoreI’ve written a crafting journal on the making and purpose of this gift for Sharon Needles, but please feel free to peruse just images of the train case from brainstorming phase to finished product.
Read MoreMisogyny is not natural. It is a series of beliefs, entitlements, resentful desires, illogical rationalizations, comfortable conclusions, ragged hungers, and terrified insecurity that thrive off of a constructed “other”. It does not fit anywhere into a structure of sense and order. It’s a craggy growth that’s coated centuries of civilization because of the intoxicating relief it offers fearful, fragile minds that bond with one another through contempt.
Read MoreAlaska Thunderfuck is the neutron star of drag: a regular-sized star with the concealed density of a hundred suns. Her flickering identities contained in one are mesmerizing in a way that few performers have ever been capable of.
Read More“While James is decidedly a land mammal, you’d have to visit the aquarium to see anything ripple through reality the way Lunkina does as a Wili…”
Read MoreAs an isolated child who felt like an alien on this planet, David Bowie had functioned as a creative polestar to follow out of the darkness. He also served as a kind of primordial god to the culture we enjoy today. So when I was twenty-six, working a soul-crushing job riddled with sexual harassment, and woke up to read that David Bowie had died, I shut myself off from the world for 5 days to mourn. I also quit that job, and because I was home mourning, was able to snag an opportunity that put me on a creative career path that might have passed me by otherwise. There’s a special grace in the fall of a sparrow, and an even greater grace in the death of a god.
Read More“Twenty winters on stage, The Nutcracker remains a beloved production that can still make an icy breeze feel like a thrilling, redemptive brush with a gentler world.”
Read MoreI almost never see modern depictions of sexuality so playful, affectionate, fun—so mutual. In each postcard both people are comfortable, excited, and focused on each other; I feel short-changed that something so basic is depressingly rare in sexual media I see today. I felt cheated once I realized what made them so dazzling to me. It should not be rare and magical to find erotic art that depicts consensual, joyful, attentive erotic play.
Read MorePerceptively identifying the spirit of the songs and their lyrical substance, they expand rhythmically on the original album’s subtext. Because of this, Legend: Remixed seems to be a way for Ziggy, Stephan, and some very accomplished fans to pick up where the jam session left off, keeping the legend alive.
Read MoreWith a mind called mad and a body that was described as the vessel of a god, fin-de-siècle superstar Vaslav Nijinsky elevated and expanded what ballet as an art form could be in the 20th century. And if Neumeier’s pressurized depiction of this man’s life is incorporated into more ballet companies’ repertoires, then he’ll be that transformative once-in-a-century voice for the 21st.
Read MoreWith enough familiarity to captivate and enough uncertainty to keep us in suspense, Downton Abbey’s momentum is still on the upswing, ready to release forward into the modern world.
Read MoreWe know zombies like to eat people; it’s not personal. But humanity’s savagery proves to be far more grisly as the third season takes us to the two parallel societies created by survivors.
Read MoreTrollope illustrates how a thorough self-knowledge of one’s own mind, as well as a sensitive, honest observation and analysis of the world give one a profoundly judicial sense of honour. Through an exploration of the different ways duty is observed, the discrepancies between honesty and delusion, and the resiliency that a strong will can supply, it becomes clear not only that a perceptive mind has a great capacity for honour, but also for resilience and happiness.
Read MoreThough the album does not, by any means, burn the foundation that The Smashing Pumpkins have invested decades building, it is committed to the present, to the cycle of impulse, reaction and artistic choice as it occurs from breath to breath.
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