Performance Art Reviews

Rupture’s Potential: Blessed with Switch

October 24, 2025
By Danielle Ross
Asher Hartman and Jasmine Orpilla at the Time-Based Art Festival
Portland, Oregon

She stutters and spits, wrestling with each syllable. A linguistic motor is erupting inside of her, driving continuous speech. Text and signifiers appear as a dualistic avalanche, an unnatural fit in this body.

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The Juice of Woman: The Mommy Leaks the Floor

September 14, 2025
By Nancy Popp
Asher Hartman at New Theater Hollywood
Los Angeles, California

Within a black lace–slipped theatrical space—itself a historical body—a staggering quasi-human enters stage left, fronting enormous, buoyant, transparent mammary glands, groaning and slowly sloshing toward the balcony stairs before collapsing with a guttural groan in seeming exhaustion, leaking her juices and fluids.

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The Mommy Leaks the Floor

September 14, 2025
By Dorothy Dubrule
Asher Hartman at New Theater Hollywood
Los Angeles, California

The play is not linear. The scenes do not lead into one another; they rub against each other and smother one another into submission.

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It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green

August 8, 2025
By Andrew Berardini
Will Rawls at REDCAT
Los Angeles, California

Artist, choreographer, and here, a rogue animator, Will Rawls stop-motions bodies through a catalogue of perceptions in a flood of green.

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