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
"It was pagan. It was punk. It was cool before cool, as a concept, existed. It might not be an outrage today, but it’s a shame that it was made interminable by its style of presentation in Paris"
"There’s a lot to love here. But there’s no Disney. None at all. Never in a million years will the Disney estate let Mickey, Donald et al appear in this context, and their absence is peculiar. It’s the Dumbo in the room"
“You don’t often find socially minded, intelligent, empathetic [crows] depicted on Christmas cards”, she laments; “Only territorial, aggressive robins”
"What you eat marks out your status as clearly as your festival pass." Karen Krizanovich dines her way around the Cannes Film Festival 2013
The characters in Chloe Aridjis's second novel Asunder may be stuck – but Neil Stewart finds their story strangely moving
Neil Stewart finds Nicholas Royle's First Novel funny and skewering, and recognises himself in the lead character's obsessive arrangement of books on a shelf by spine colour and design
"She has a terrific answer to the vapid rhetoric of 'In a time where money is short, do you think that money should be spent on a baby’s incubator, or on supporting poetry?'"
