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Interview with David Thomson
Your new project is called “Stumbling towards Babylon…” and has been inspired by an experience from 10 years ago… I was working with Ralph Lemon at the time and he loves giving people stuff and really pushing it, so that it’s not just easy for them, forcing us to juggle multiple tasks and seeing how ...
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Interview with Yanira Castro
Your new work, Paradis, opens soon at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. How did you end up making a piece for that location? When I began developing my last piece, Wilderness, I imagined that it would take place in two venues—an indoor venue like a warehouse, and then you would travel via bus to a ...
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Interview with Neal Medlyn
Tell us about your working process for “Our Hit Parade” with Bridget Everett and Kenny Mellman. We met doing a monthly show called “Automatic Vaudeville.” I always wanted the three of us to do that again, so we started “Our Hit Parade,” which is in its 3rd year now. It’s crazy; it went by ...
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Interview with Julie Fotheringham
What are you working on now? I started thinking about this right after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan; it was about the time to start thinking about this piece with my collaborator, Jarryd Lowder. On NPR, there were beautiful black and white photographs of an area that was washed away by the tsunami. ...
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Interview with Michael Dudeck Witchdoctor
You were recently in the Arctic preparing for your upcoming project… Michael: I just spent seven weeks in the Canadian Arctic, in Nunavut, engaging in a plurality of conversations with Inuit about a shamanistic transition into Christianity. I was struck by the revelation that the Inuit transition to modern life only happened in the 1950s. ...