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Issue #60

Spring/Summer 2024

Gender/Disarray

Under the direction of four contributing editors—Amalle Dublon, Kay Gabriel, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, and Anh Vo— we’ve assembled a new body of work by mostly trans and queer artists reflecting on the keyword “gender” and its relation to contemporary performance. Their work moves across multiple genres of writing, from analytic essays to poetry to performance scripts. 

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MELT Reading Group: Body Magic – An Embodied Rebellion

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In this MELT Reading Group: Body Magic – An Embodied Rebellion, participants will read one chapter from Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch,” a history of the body in the transition to capitalism rooted in the history of the persecution of the witches and the disciplining of the body; where she shows the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind.

Mark Morris Dance Group

This summer, Mark Morris Dance Group launches its milestone 45th anniversary season and presents a stunning program that showcases the breadth and versatility of Mark Morris’s choreography. With live music and Mark Morris’s signature blend of wit, musicality, and emotional depth, this much-anticipated engagement features two programs that celebrate both World Premieres and beloved repertory.

The sloppy economy of aesthetic perception, and other stories

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In this MELT Reading Group, Neil Greenberg will offer selections from a few readings that have influenced and/or helped him understand his own performance-making: about the “sloppy economy” of aesthetic perception, about different subjective positionings in relation to viewers, and in relation to queer aesthetics.

Pageant Presents: Contact High: New York Night 1 - Rebecca Jensen

For night one of Contact High: New York, Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT Presents: Rebecca Jensen, Muddy 2.0, 2025. Expanded for Contact High: New York with dancers Lilian Steiner and Molly Ross, and writer Roslyn Orlando, Mudddy 2.0 enacts one of a series of oscillating dialogues between non-human entities by choreographer Rebecca Jensen.