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In a normal year, New Yorks January performance festivals look to the future.
All aesthetics conventional and avant-garde have sloshed together.
Even so, this is my favorite time of the year.
Theres a bit more heft toTeatro AnonimosEspiritu,a Chilean short film written and directed by Trinidad Gonzalez.
In a darkened theater, a trio invokes modern demons, hoping to trap them.
To learn, its very … its your … say you learned!
says a man at a lunch, to a date who wears protective goggles while she applies makeup.
); later, a man bicycles his legs on his floor.
It isnt tasty, exactly, but the abstractions do clear your mental pathways roughage for the synapses.
If youre hoping for a more hypnotic effect, head to PROTOTYPE forTimes3by Geoff Sobelle and Pamela Z.
These songs sometimes carry their singers out into their neighborhoods, where they wander around filming themselves.
It sort of works.
I hope mine were helpful too.
But faint praise because muted pleasure was all I could conjure for much of myJanArtsexperience.
Clicking from window to window isnt a festival.
the dig at Gobekli Tepe!
), makes for an overwhelming experience.
Ive been doing my own backward scrolling, looking at old dispatches from past festival seasons.
Honestly, the attempt failed.
Its why we go.
The solstice has turned, the nights are getting shorter and were hoping something will shock us awake.
Under the Radarcontinues through January 17.PROTOTYPEcontinues through January 16.The Exponential Festivalcontinues through January 31.
