Molly Burch
Led by her syrupy, understated vocals, Burch’s songs often unfold slowly and serve as storytelling vehicles for topics like romantic despair and anxiety.
January 28, 2020
Performance
Border Tuner
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's most recent installation Border Turner in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez brings voice and person to the forefront.
January 28, 2020
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.”
December 01, 2019
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.
December 01, 2019
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.
August 28, 2019
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...
June 26, 2019
Stage Worthy: The Santa Fe Opera Properties Department
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.
June 26, 2019
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...
May 24, 2019
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
April 26, 2019
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...
November 28, 2018
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...
October 30, 2018
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, […]
October 01, 2018
The “Indigefection” of Doctor Atomic
Peter Sellars’s new staging of Doctor Atomic refuses to allow the audience to look past the Pueblos...
August 28, 2018
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...
July 30, 2018
Floating Worlds: The Santa Fe Opera Scene Shop
“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...
June 28, 2018
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...
June 01, 2018
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...
May 25, 2018
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...
May 01, 2018
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...
April 01, 2018
Everything I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language and Code
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...
April 01, 2018
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...
December 01, 2017
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 ...
November 01, 2017
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 ...
October 01, 2017
Bach & Brews with Matt Haimovitz
Performance Santa Fe presents cellist Matt Haimovitz, who made his debut as a soloist at age 13 in 1984 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and made his first recording at age 17 with the Chicago Symphony [...]
September 01, 2017
Meet your Makers: Santa Fe Opera Costume Shop
“It’s one thing to draw a picture of a lady in a blue dress,” says Missy West, Costume Director of the Santa Fe Opera. “But what’s the blue dress made of?" [...]
June 01, 2017
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."...
November 01, 2016
