Sound and vision from the past, present and future
Over the last 30 years Stephen Petronio has established himself as one of the most influential names in American dance. His iconoclastic works fuse eclectic elements of pop culture to often explosive effect. He talked to Civilian about some of his landmark productions
"Approaching Dublin with Ulysses in mind, if not in hand, is like wearing a set of bifocals that fractures the city into complementary parallels: so much has changed a century later, and so much seems unchanged"
"I’ll contentedly consume any quantity of bodily grotesquerie, haunted houses and monstrous otherings, and Supplication delivers on all these"
"For some, going to festivals is all about parties, meetings, lunches, drinking, not getting that taxi you wanted speaking the local language wrong and losing your apartment keys"
Neil D.A. Stewart on the best books of 2023, and the one that really should have won
"I sat at Pasolini’s regular table, and it could have been 1975."
The Cannes Film Festival has several juries. This year, Karen Krizanovich was on one of them
How unlikely TV moguls Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato changed the pop culture universe
Meet the international artists heading to Margate for the first term of the The Tracey Emin Residency
Arts Editor and author Neil D.A. Stewart distills 12 months of essential reads
"Jordan Gray is a star in near-vertical ascent, and she’s bringing all of us with her"
