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Stephen Petronio |A New York contemporary movement

Stephen Petronio |A New York contemporary movement

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
A family visit to Te Papa: Captain Thomas Robertson’s <em>Caribou</em>, 1867

A family visit to Te Papa: Captain Thomas Robertson’s Caribou, 1867

by Susan Paterson

Susan Paterson visits her great-great-great grandfather's masterpiece in the Te Papa museum, New Zealand
John Waters’ Provincetown

John Waters’ Provincetown

by John Waters

"I go out partying on Friday night. I’ve always been a coal miner with a pay cheque"
Review: <em>Can’t and Won’t</em> by Lydia Davis

Review: Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis

by Rebecca Fortey

"Does her close observation of the everyday often tip into the purely mundane?"
Hiding out with Zawe Ashton

Hiding out with Zawe Ashton

by Zawe Ashton

"If I were to create a hotel it would be based on the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz"
Dark star

Dark star

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"Beats falling like gigantic footsteps, noise seems to have overflowed from some subterranean otherwhere, surging up like black water" - Neil Stewart reviews The Haxan Cloak at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple
High heels, trash and vaudeville

High heels, trash and vaudeville

by Todd Lynn

Todd Lynn on the new Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Review: <em>The Interestings</em> by Meg Wolitzer

Review: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Neil Stewart enjoys Meg Wolitzer’s novel of youthful comings of age, and the trials and consolations of maturity, among a group of creative types
Review: Stephen Petronio Company, 30th anniversary, New York

Review: Stephen Petronio Company, 30th anniversary, New York

by Jack Hanley

"It all felt as flimsy, pretty and ephemeral as the low-key, romantic score by Michael Nyman that settled over the top of it like a spritz of eau de toilette"
Review: <em>Bark</em> by Lorrie Moore

Review: Bark by Lorrie Moore

by Rebecca Fortey

"The quieter sadness of some stories made me wonder whether the collection should perhaps have been named after its first story: 'debarking', it turns out, is the process by which a dog’s voice is softened to make it less startling to the human ear"
Blue is the warmest colour

Blue is the warmest colour

by Corinna Tomrley

Corinna Tomrley on the two voices of Canada's Joni Mitchell