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November 9, 2016 · Industries

Bodies That Refuse to Be Forgotten

Bodies That Refuse to Be Forgotten

The thing about Ghost Architecture: A Palimpsest is that it understood what most commemorative performances miss entirely, that a building isn’t just bricks and sweat stains, it’s every body that ever moved through it, every kid who learned to fail there before learning to fly. Aleta Hayes’ Chocolate Heads took that renovated gym, all shiny […]

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Chocolate Heads: Ghost Architecture (dress rehearsal)

Chocolate Heads: Ghost Architecture (dress rehearsal)

Aleta Hayes and The Chocolate Heads are building Ghost Architecture, and I’m here trying to capture what happens when sculptural performance becomes something between sΓ©ance and construction site. It’s ephemeral by design, chocolate edifices that exist in that sweet between solid and melting, between here and gone, like memory made tactile. This is the kind […]

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Hauling Granite: Notes from Tor House

Hauling Granite: Notes from Tor House

That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you. Robinson Jeffers, Be Angry At The Sun, 1941 The stone holds everything, every failed marriage, every dead child, every […]

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Aleta Hayes rehearsal / class

Aleta Hayes rehearsal of the Chocolate Heads Class in Roble Studio. The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other. Judith Malina Stanford Theater and Performance Studies‘ lecturer Aleta Hayes leads The Chocolate Heads Class in Roble Gym

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Aleta Hayes rehearsal / class
lucky dragons: user agreement

lucky dragons: user agreement

What we’ve got here is the kind of conceptual sleight of hand that makes the museum going bourgeoisie feel dangerous for an afternoon. Lucky Dragons (Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck) dragged peace itself into SFMOMA and roughed it up, reverse engineered it like they were hot wiring a stolen Cadillac for good intentions. They took […]

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October 18, 2016 · Industries

Performers Under Stress Black River Falls

Performers Under Stress Black River Falls

Performers Under Stress presents the West Coast Premiere of BLACK RIVER FALLS by Bryn Magnus.

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Betty Reid Soskin at The California Studies Association

Betty Reid Soskin at The California Studies Association

Betty Reid Soskin at ninety-four, ninety-four, standing there receiving an award named after Carey McWilliams, and the only thing more beautiful than the image is knowing she didn’t wait for permission to make history happen. She made it happen, hustled it into existence, because that’s what you do when the official story is a lie […]

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