NYU SKIRBALL IN THE NEWS

"Skirball’s two dance presentations this fall sit at opposite ends of a spectrum — one intimate, one epic. “This resting, patience” seats a small audience onstage to observe the choreographer Ewa Dziarnowska’s cyclical duet with Leah Marojević at close range (Oct. 1-2). “Totem,” performed by the all-male Butoh company Sankai Juku, builds a dramatic world around its towering titular set piece (Nov. 5-7)."

By: Margaret Fuhrer

"This month, Jay Wegman celebrates his tenth year as artistic director at the New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The past decade also happens to be a period in which many New York institutions retreated from the world stage. In 2017, the twenty-second edition of Lincoln Center Festival turned out to be its last. The following year, Joseph V. Melillo retired from Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Next Wave Festival has contracted ever since. Then COVID-19 came along, halting imported performance. Today, you can still catch foreign-born work at BAM, St. Ann’s Warehouse, or the Shed, to name three, but often it originates from England or Australia."

By: David Cote

Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie explore the playwright’s life, and their journey from Beirut to Berlin, in an absorbing show at the Edinburgh international festival

By: Mark Fisher

The stage is shrouded in darkness as eerie moans, cackles and chirps pierce the air. The outline of a back gradually becomes visible. As the setting brightens, that shape turns into a woman, Beatrice Cordua, an 83-year-old ballet veteran, seated with her back to the audience. She makes her way to her feet and holds her arms out in welcome.

By: Gia Kourlas

The Pelicot Trial reconstructs testimony from the Gisèle Pelicot trial in a nearly five-hour performance.

Kyle Abraham's Cassette Vol. 1 blends the rhythmic DNA of 1960s postmodern dance with 1980s–90s pop music.

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham performs the New York premiere of Cassette Vol.1 at NYU Skirball.

The New York Times lists Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Exit Above at NYU Skirball.

New York Magazine highlights Kramer/Fauci at Skirball as a Frost/Nixon with roller skates set in the AIDS era.

TheaterMania reviews Daniel Fish's Kramer/Fauci and its recreation of a 1993 exchange about the AIDS crisis.