Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test

By Amanda Gluibizzi

NOV 2019 | ArtSeen

Throughout Wardrobe Test, we encounter women trying things on: costumes, other voices, new or different personae. And yet despite, or even through, this garb, we also witness glimpses of what we have to assume or hope to believe is the person within, the compassionate collaborator and mourner, the artist as empath, the woman of faith above all else.

Editor’s Note

By Gillian Jakab

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Dance

As 2019 draws to a close, this section dedicates a number of its pages to the Bauhaus centennial. The Bauhaus legacy has stood the test of time, not least because of its principle of inclusion; its multi-disciplinary and egalitarian values saw dance and performance integrated into its design practice.

Place for Continuous Eye Contact (8): A Test-Drive with Mindfulness

By Adam Beal

APR 2018 | ArtSeen

Eyes are at once revealing and removing. They can draw us into others or help us see ourselves as an other. But when suspended in multicolored, dimensionless fabric, as Anspach has discovered, they have the power to do both.

Make 'Em Laugh

By Madison Mainwaring

FEB 2019 | Dance

Having never seen Nederlands Dans Theater, I was worried its junior troupe, NDT 2, might be a little too “European” for my liking—one of those avant-garde four-hour-long productions you go to against your better judgment in Paris, in which art is less about pleasure than it is a test of “intellectual” endurance.