Performance Art Reviews

The Comfort of Distance

July 1, 2025
By Zian Chen
Ihot Sinlay Cihek at Prologue Center for New Plays
Taipei, Taiwan

Enacting Sawmah, an urban Indigenous woman, Ihot Sinlay Cihek’s solo play appears to channel her own experience navigating between her Pangcah roots and millennial city life.

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PENACHO VS PENACHO: Verde esmeralda resplandeciente

June 24, 2025
By Gemma Argüello
A performance by Nina Hoechtl in collaboration with Alberto Montes Zárate, Andrés Guadarrama, and José Arnaud
Mexico City, Mexico

Nina Hoechtl’s long-term project PENACHO VS PENACHO explores the colonial history of Moctezuma’s feathered headdress.

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Choreography of Ruin and Resilience

May 6, 2025
By Sophia Weltman
Weathering by Faye Driscoll
Los Angeles, California

Faye Driscoll’s latest project, Weathering, troubles the distinctions between the multiple meanings of its titular root in order to provide a multi-sensory, leaky cry against surrender and despair in the face of a collapsing environment.

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