Performance

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's most recent installation Border Turner in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez brings voice and person to the forefront. By Daisy Quezada

Dec 01

Water by the Spoonful

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful examines the results of trauma in people’s lives in this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at Santa Fe's Teatro Paraguas. By Talia Pura

Dec 01

Technology and the Evolving Craft of Dance

“I want my students to understand that their embodied knowledge and way of consciously moving in space, as dancers, is special. My goal is to give them vocabulary and tools so they can be part of the creative force that invents whatever comes next.” By Tamara Johnson

Erik Sampson and Scarlett Wynne of New Mexico Dance Project

Aug 28

New Mexico Dance Project: note g

New Mexico Dance Project is a newcomer powerhouse on the Santa Fe dance scene. Husband and wife team Erik Sampson and Scarlett Wynne founded the company in New Mexico six months ago. Since then, they have been teaching workshops for students, creating new works nonstop, and performing with the intention to become an integrated part of the community. By Tamara Johnson

Jun 26

Stage Worthy: The Santa Fe Opera Properties Department

FeatureMeet Your Makers

Where was the dagger? It was the final act of The Letter, a Santa Fe Opera world premiere that opened in 2009, and forty-mile-per-hour winds were howling across the venue’s open-air stage. The murderous Leslie, played by Patricia Racette, was singing her way towards suicide-by-stabbing. Suddenly, the wind whipped a tablecloth and sent Leslie’s fateful knife skittering down the dining table. This was despite the fact that the properties department had reinforced the linen with a stitch called a swing tack and secured it with a wind skirt. By Jordan Eddy

Jun 26

A Season of Anachronisms at the Vortex Theatre

The question is not merely why Shakespeare, but why make any art at all? Who is art for, and at what cost? In Guards at the Taj, answers to the first question accumulate as if without effort: we make art to create objects of resplendent beauty and experiences of wonder; to revel in the joy of creation; to invent worlds beyond this one; to compete with God; to fail. It’s the second question that’s difficult—brutally so... By Briana Olson

May 24

Seeds Regeneration by Dancing Earth

Rulan Tangen’s company, Dancing Earth, performed the culmination of a six-year project called ...SEEDS: RE GENERATION... in Santa Fe this April... By Tamara Johnson

Apr 26

Theater Roundup: A Doll’s House, Part 2

It seems that cinematic sequels are all the rage these days. Even theater is not immune to this urge to put iconic characters in new situations. Take, for example By Jonah Winn-Lenetsky

Nov 28

The Magic of Making Stuff Up: Santa Fe Improv

Warehouse 21, Santa Fe
December 2, 6 pm (monthly performance)
I would like you to imagine you are standing alone on a stage. A simple brown folding chair stands in front of you. The audience of about forty people looks up at you, waiting, expectant. You are dressed in your street clothes. Suddenly, a man in a t-shirt and shorts wanders onto the stage and says... By Jonah Winn-Lenetsky

Oct 30

Meaning and Music: Mark Morris Dance Group Comes to Santa Fe

Mark Morris dances are difficult to describe because they are so innovative. The man’s wit is a source of endless creativity, and his work gives the simultaneous impressions of serendipity and contemplation. His dances can... By Tamara Johnson

Oct 01

Chaotic Structures: Action at a Distance

Action at a Distance at Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe September 24th-October 10, 2018 the famously depressive actor and theatrical scholar Antonin Artaud writes, “The theater, which is in no thing, […] By Jonah Winn-Lenetsky

Aug 28

The “Indigefection” of Doctor Atomic

Peter Sellars’s new staging of Doctor Atomic refuses to allow the audience to look past the Pueblos... By Thomas Grant Richardson

Jul 30

The Knight, Death, and the Devil—Doctor Atomic Comes Home

A tragic awareness haunts every element of the opera Doctor Atomic. The libretto, the music—the tableaux of singers, dancers, scenes, and the one prop that never ceases to cast its shadow on the whole... By Diane Armitage

Jun 28

Floating Worlds: The Santa Fe Opera Scene Shop

Meet Your Makers

“They’ll say, ‘Why won’t it just float there?’” Scott Schreck says with a little smirk. “Then I go, ‘I’ll tell you what, let me work on that antigravity device for you.’” He’s talking through the joys and difficulties of translating artistic visions to brick and mortar... By Jordan Eddy

Jun 01

New Feet On An Old Stage

“I suppose in some ways I’m always trying to achieve the impossible.” Jonathan Winkle, the newly appointed director of Performance Santa Fe ignores his coffee while enthusiastically explaining how he books the perfect season roster. “I want a balance between artistically... By Maxwell Lucas

May 25

The Third Annual Oasis Festival

The third annual Oasis Festival, a youth-led, free event will take place on Saturday, May 26, from 5:30pm-10pm in the Railyard Plaza. New York based electronic-pop duo Overcoats will headline the event supported by local teen musicians and DJs, as well as performances from local... By Students of Santa Fe Prep/Convergence Project

May 01

H2O

“I got tired of auditioning for lame parts,” said Santa Fe actress Jessica Haring at an intimate living room preview for H2O this spring. Last year, she read Jane Martin’s one-act, two-character play from 2015 and knew its female protagonist, Deborah Elling... By Jordan Eddy

Apr 01

A New Frontier Hides in the Air: In the Studio with Luke Carr

“This place. The river is life,” Luke Carr tells me as we walk through a stand of cottonwood trees near the flowing water. He lives on a small farm in a remote part of northern New Mexico, next to the confluence of two rivers. For a musician, this place provides silence for writing... By Maxwell Lucas

Apr 01

Everything I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language and Code

The Library

For fans of Laurie Anderson, and I certainly count myself as one, the book Everything I Lost in the Flood archives her forty-plus-year art career, beginning with a 1974 performance piece called Duets on Ice. This work, even in its simplicity, constellates a certain inscrutable... By Diane Armitage

Nov 01

Are You Listening?

It was John Seabrook’s profile of singer Tanya Tagaq in The New Yorker that introduced me to her work as a contemporary performer. Seabrook went on to write, “Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and she was in the city for a performance... a jaw-dropping forty-five minutes of guttural heaves, juddering howls, and murderous shrieks—Inuit folk meets Karen Finley."... By Diane Armitage

Dec 01

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

If classical ballet isn’t quite your thing (and even if it is), leave it to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, presented this holiday season by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, to reintroduce you to the art form. Somewhere between high art and lowbrow camp, this all-male ballet... By Southwest Contemporary

Nov 01

The Portable Dorothy Parker

With its script by Santa Fean Annie Lux, The Portable Dorothy Parker is almost as good as being a fly on the wall while one of the most popular writers and oft-quoted wits of the early twentieth century holds forth. It also serves as an excellent example that good art gets ... By Kathryn M Davis

Oct 01

Theatre in Santa Fe Comes into its Own

There is something pulsing through our thin mountain air. Something electric and exciting and I’m not describing the lightning-filled monsoon season. Instead, I am talking about the growing and energetic theatre and performance scene that is currently emanating from all over ... By Jonah Winn-Lenetsky

Sep 01

Bach & Brews with Matt Haimovitz