Composer, singer, director/choreographer Meredith Monk has been a lead figure on the American avant-garde scene since the early 1970’s and is going strong today. In a recent Wall Street Journal interview she discussed her early influences which included taking Dalcroze… Continue Reading
At the beginning of the preceding century German chemist Fritz Haber discovered how to “fix” nitrogen, paving the way for the development of modern explosives and chemical fertilizers at the same time. For all their early promise, those fertilizers wreaked… Continue Reading
Edmund B. Lingan’s The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual performance from 1875 to the Present was just released by Palgrave Macmillan (on November 19, says Amazon). According to the publisher’s website: Based on field research and archival study,… Continue Reading