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.
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 At Florence Gould Hall
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.
Dance
Koresh Dance Company
The Masquerade, 2023.
There is this nuance happening between dreams and reality, renaissance performance artists, and a modern Decameron style opera. Choreography by Ronnie Koresh
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
Sketches from modern dance, and especially Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers have produced the most expansive portfolio of sketches from open rehearsals to live performances.
Traces of Brush(2023)
Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers
Always The Hour With Annie Wilson
Annie Wilson: Transfiguration In Mourning and Nothingness
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 in the genre of modern dance artists and performance artists exploring the phenomena, best explained by the transcendence of physical space and the body.
Chris Davis
Experience the creative magic of Chris Davis. The one-man theatre artist, comedian, and story teller. Making an annual Christmas story out of the experience of American Ballet, Tchaichovsky’s The Nutcracker. A new chapter of the performer’s physicality by expressing an interest in a year of barre, and ballet training in the dance studio.
The Producers, 2018
Theatre InterAct The Last Parade
The Last Parade, performed in February 2023. The playwright Stephanie Satie gives a jarring historical fictitious play based on the Russian Jews, pograms, and political instability of bipartisan war, and winning the public over. The purpose of making a scape goat out of the resistance.
