Theater Review: New York Theater Workshop

Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City “ I have rarely seen a play that so effectively describes the way external forces- in this case immigration policies in the United States- distort the inner lives of actual humans.”
– The New York Times

“Crossing The Line Festival”

Somi Music @FIAFNY 2021, Florence Gould Hall

International artists brought to NYC to curate a festival at the L’Alliance New York. Thematic programs arranged, in the multifaceted, Festival of African Diasporic Artists during 2021. A variety of artistic identities centered on their geographic local influence in the globalization of francophone countries.

Fouad Boussouf: Näss(people,) The Joyce Theatre, 2022.

Performance Date:
October 18 – 23, 2022

Haiku Review:
Wavering t-shirts
hot Mediterranean
the people prevail

*Presented as part of FIAFNY’s “Crossing The Line Festival”

Somi Music

after experiencing Somi Music in 2021, anticipation for The New York Theater Workshop production of “Dreaming Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam MaKeba,” was motivation for an investigative essay into the History of American Musicals/ History of Africa/ Jazz Music.

NEW A Personal Essay into the multiple themes and layers of experimental theater in the form of an epic poem, The Half-God of RainFall, the teaching of philosophy, art, and religions of African Art & Thought opened up a contemporary audience to this narrated tale of trauma, vengeance, and heart ache.

The Half-God of Rainfall(2023), by Inua Ellams, was another episode of transcultural theater for a wide audience to internalize personal trauma. Thematically the play used many subtext to discuss the Yoruba Gods and goddess as popular culture pacified as the Other, the poem directs our attention for such themes as sports, mythology, the African diaspora, religion, and gender in Ellams’s epic poem produced by the New York Theater Workshop.

Childhood Dream: Drawing Superheroes

Dance

Koresh Dance Company

The Masquerade, 2023.

The Masquerade

There is this nuance happening between dreams and reality, renaissance performance artists, and a modern Decameron style opera. Choreography by Ronnie Koresh

*Wind 2*, performed by Kun-Yang-Yang Lin and Dancers, solo by Weiwei Ma, 2023.

Art on Center Stage 2023

Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers

Uygur Folk Dance

Zihing Cui

KyLin’s Garden(2023)

Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers

Fan Dance

Weiwei Ma

Fruit of Her Lips

“Wally” Evalina Carbonell & Weiwei Ma, Sophie Malin

Sketching from modern dance, but especially with the Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers have produced the most expansive series of drawings from rehearsal, and performances. Following the teachings of Kun-Yang Lin, shows characteristically I the drawings, KUN-YANG LIN AND DANCERS.

Traces of Brush(2023)

Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers

Annie Wilson

Always The Hour

Immersive art installation at the Ice Box Project Space in 2023. Pulling from a depth of personal history, the movement artist of Annie Wilson also borrows form the line of modern dance artists and performance artists exploring the phenomena, best explained in the transcendence of physical space and the body.

Annie Wilson: Transfiguration In Mourning and Nothingness