Performance Archives - Public Seminar

Literature

A Transdisciplinary Foray Into Classical Performance

Cloud Variations presents performers, chamber orchestra, and poetry in a prismatic exploration of language, translation, and mother tongue

December 18, 2025 • by Grace Dignazio

Poet and performer J. Mae Barizo’s monodrama Cloud Variations is a transdisciplinary foray interweaving poetry, chamber orchestra, visual art, and theater. The piece places Barizo’s “Cloud Pantoum,” a poem previously published in The Atlantic, in conversation with Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 3 to create a kaleidoscopic meditation on body, technology, ...

A Transdisciplinary Foray Into Classical Performance

Music

“I was concerned for her knees”

Mitski transported the crowd at King’s Theatre with a cathartic physical performance

April 16, 2024 • by Hannah Burns

I had been worried that “My Love Mine All Mine” was the only song some people had come to hear, just because it blew up on TikTok. ...

Multi-Verse Episode 8: India Lena González and the Frenzy of Performance

“ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)” challenges the confines of the stage

May 31, 2023 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 8 of Multi-Verse, poet India Lena González reads and discusses her poem “ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)” with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham....

Multi-Verse Episode 8: India Lena González and the Frenzy of Performance

The Arts

Making Experiences Our Own: A Review of The Amen Corner, 2021

For years, Ijeoma N. Njaka was afraid of failing to understand James Baldwin. Then she went to see his play

October 5, 2022 • by Ijeoma N. Njaka

It is by no means guaranteed that a potential audience member will automatically make a connection between their life experiences, interests, knowledge, emotions, or memories with a piece of art. Interpretive or educational materials, however, can help a viewer create a personally meaningful connection with the art itself....

Making Experiences Our Own: A Review of <em>The Amen Corner</em>, 2021

Art & Design

Dancing is Work

And it’s one of many ways we experience magic time

December 14, 2019 • by Stuart Hodes

I asked Vernon Scott, President of the Board of Directors, if he would do me a favor: hold this event on Wednesday -- because it’s my 95th birthday. He said no. In the mid 1950s, I was sitting on the steps of my loft residence on East 17th Street talking with ...

Feature

The Joy of the Body: An Interview with Narcissister

The artist and performer on her new film, Narcissister Organ Player

March 15, 2019 • by Narcissister and Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Try a taste of this: a giant hot dog, as big as your body. The sausage inside wiggles enticingly, then climbs right out of its bun. Standing upright, the wiener shimmies on red high heels, tossing down feather boas of mustard and ketchup. Then the meat peels back, and a ...