Author: thinaar

I LIKE THIS: “I sense that in the long run there is a greater value for humanity in empowering folks to make and create than there is in teaching them the canon, the great works and the masterpieces. In my opinion, it’s more important that someone learn to make music, to draw, photograph, write or…

Here are some of my favorite words about performing, by the late Ron Vawter, in conversation with the current Tim Etchells: Tim Etchells: What’s the pleasure of performing for you? Ron Vawter: I think it’s the concentration of…people on stage – like I’m suspended in this very powerful force-field and I’m sort of riding it…

Lately, when I teach workshops, talk to artists and think about my own career as a playwright and performer, I have been using the phrase “Do less with more,” as a counter to the crisis mode that seems embedded in much of the art production I see around me. I’ve been writing about this in…

Here is a link to audio from my Appointment piece, performed October 2 at Prelude:CLICK TO PLAY

People. I need help paying collaborators on Appointment, the new, ongoing performance project I’m working on. http://bit.ly/AOoFI“Appointment” is short, repeatable one-on-one performances in small offices. The first Appointment happens at PRELUDENYC in about two weeks. After that I’m going to Oslo in March to work with students at the TITAN Theater School on Norwegian Appointments.…

I am soliciting thoughts and ideas. I am working on a new piece called Appointment,, which will have its first in-progress performance at Prelude next month. It’s a series of repeatable performances for one performer and one viewer. Right now I’m writing and thinking, and here’s what I’m hoping I can pull off: I want…

Collective Arts Think Tank has unveiled itself! http://collectiveartsthinktank.blogspot.com/What does that mean? A few months ago, a blog exchange among a couple artists, a couple presenters, a journalist, sundry arts professionals and a funder or two, about the state of contemporary live performance, took place on WNYC’s Performance Club blog (http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/performance/). A few of us were…