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Dance Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA Day 4 | Passing Through a Narrow Passage

Now getting deep in to the brush and organic material is clinging to your clothes, sweat is on your brow and the mirage of relief is beginning to appear lucid in your imagination. It is day four at the festival. Initially, you look forward to the weekend of activities, but on Sunday, you realize there […]

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Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA Day 3 | Children of History

Forty years ago, on September 11th, the Presidential Palace in Santiago was attacked. The elected President of Chile was ousted by coup, replaced with a CIA backed sham democracy under the dictator Pinochet. The name is familiar to many, but few understand the story. I had read about it for the first time in the […]

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Festival Interdisciplinary

“Special Effect” | MHSR | E*rock

You may have noticed the ridiculous way I signed off on my introduction.  Particularly the sentence concerning the myriad identities and hats I wear at various times, for various people.  All of these things are true.  But was also meant as a parody of the descriptions contemporary art often uses to sell itself. In the saturated marketplace of […]

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Dance Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA Day 2 | Don’t Like This

Last night seemed to be a solid kick off to the performance program—if not controversial. Attendance was full for the two theater events I witnessed. In a brief encounter with Angela Mattox earlier this year, at the closing party of social practice conference, Open Engagement, that attendance for T:BA ‘13 was a concern. Last year’s […]

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Festival Interdisciplinary

D. Todd Dickerson Signing in to T:BA 2013

Greetings to the InterArts community, and whomever else may run across these words. My name’s D. Todd Dickerson, and I’ll be helping cover events at the 2013 Time-Based Art Festival. I’ve been an occasional T:BA attendant for years now, so it should be interesting approaching with a more critical lens. Look forward to musings and […]