Reviving a show after 25 years can mean to reinvent it completely, especially in times that move at such a speed. And yet, says Ping Chong , the avant-garde director who re-staged his 1985 piece, Angels of Swedenborg at LaMaMa in the current season...

One of the most palatable forms of bringing the spectacle into the American universities is the festival/ or rather the “presentational platform”, a less formal category, in fact a very friendly and flexible one, which includes Prelude, an event organized this year for the eighth time at CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

The theater program at Fordham University, New York, strategically includes the invitation of already recognized artists, with no connection to the school, to work with the students, as a supplementary training coming from a different perspective than the one of the actual professors.

”We make rules so we could change them”, Robert Wilson reminds us in a recent interview, and his affirmation is proved in the staging of The Threepenny Opera, a Berliner Ensemble production which had its New York premiere this week in the opening of BAM Next Wave festival.

The image of a small brunette woman crawling courageously on a long table with men looking at her in despise stayed with me a long time after watching At Land, Maya Deren’s film from the 1944.

Sunday night at Irondale Center: a beautiful performing space downtown Brooklyn, near BAM, that can be modeled for no matter what kind of performance hosted The Mothership Landing from Conni’s Avant-Garde Restaurant

At night in the subway, coming across someone who is muttering something one cannot understand, one may think of that person that he is crazy or maybe on the edge of doing something violent. But if one finds the courage to come closer, one may discover the stranger is singing something to himself.

Performer and composer, Meredith Monk has been using sounds for more than 40 years now to operate a type of archeology on the feelings of contemporary human being. She digs up for sensations and exhibits them through expressive emotions based on a sound script.