New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020 (VIA ZOOM) Dylan Hoffman 16/11/2020 Most Americans that think of Butoh imagine it as a Japanese avant-garde dance performed by bald, chiseled men, naked except for a loincloth and a full...
At Black Lake Dylan Hoffman 01/08/2019 At Black Lake, written by German playwright Dea Loher and translated by Daniel Brunet, opens with an arrival. Johnny and Else show up late to Eddy and...
Queen of Hearts Dylan Hoffman 30/07/2019 It has become such a rote exercise for directors and choreographers to plunder Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic that one would be forgiven for ignor...
We’re Only Alive For A Short Amount of Time Dylan Hoffman 30/06/2019 For many who are the products of tempestuous home environments, animals provide a rare instant of peace. Animals serve as a reminder of innocence, an ...
Between the Seas: Mediterranean Performing Arts in NYC Dylan Hoffman 04/06/2019 In 2010, the Greek economy imploded and the authoritarian permafrost covering much of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa thawed in a sweeping Arab...
Feral Dylan Hoffman 28/05/2019 Feral opens with the tamest of images: a man walks on stage and, with a black sharpie, draws a stick figure, which he labels, “Joe (Me)”. The man cont...
Shakesbeer: The Games We Play Dylan Hoffman 14/05/2019 This iteration of “Shakesbeer,” titled “The Games We Play,” features four scenes, each in a different bar, and each turning on, predictably, a game. T...
Entangled Dylan Hoffman 02/05/2019 A young white man enters a dark planetarium, wielding a gun, and opens fire. One of his bullets rips young black girl from her mother beneath the cold...
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy Dylan Hoffman 24/04/2019 Anybody who goes Anne Carson’s new, beguiling play, expecting a tight narrative about the lives of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy, will come out dis...
