Richard C. Green
Nov 19, 2009 12:02 PM

Ann Schley
Nov 14, 2009 1:35 PM

To Appreciate or to Feel? That is the Question
Features, In Performance, Performing Arts

Lightsey Darst elegantly deconstructs her experience of "The Good Dance," as envisioned by Brooklyn's Reggie Wilson and Senegal's Andreya Ouamba; in the process, she offers trenchant insights about the varied ways art may work on the viewer.

Coming-Out Party: Arena Dances at Ten
Performing Arts, Reviews

Lightsey Darst saw "Ten," the tenth-anniversary performance of Arena Dances, choreographed by Mathew Janczewski at the Southern Theater. It runs through October 22. She posits that this choreographer needs the "freakishly gifted" to do his best work.

Room on a Broom

Performing Arts, Theater
November 20, 2009
St. John's University Stephen B. Humphrey Theater, Collegeville


Based on the children’s book, a witch and her cat are flying happily on their broomstick – until a stormy wind blows away the witch’s hat, bow and wand. Join the...

Because the Voices...

Lectures | Talks | Reading, Literary Arts, Performing Arts
November 20, 2009 - November 21, 2009
Patrick's Cabaret, Minneapolis


"Because the Voices..." is about my grandma's sister, Edith, who killed herself in 1979 a year and a half before I was born. That Edith had died of suicide was never hidden from m...