Clare Cioffero, Author at The Theatre Times

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Battery Dance Festival+: Canadian Voices in Dance

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 31st May 2021 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Dance

In August 2020, Battery Dance shifted its annual Battery Dance Festival to a virtual format. The Festival is a storied free public dance festival commanding a large audience each year. Shifting to the virtual format has allowed Battery Dance to expand offerings and last month saw the birth of Battery Dance Festival+: Canadian Voices in […]

Unchartered Territory: Dancers in Isolation, the Eryc Taylor Dance Company

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 4th May 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

In five years, in ten years, in twenty, we will remember what it felt like to live through the...

Isolation to Creation: Guggenheim Works Process, Parts 2-4

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 28th Mar 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

These artists are passionate and insightful, yet the dancers and musicians are not acclimated to speaking their minds to audiences. What emerges is a raw and thoughtful narrative with a sense of the vulnerability beneath the passion.

“UnRavelled” – A New Play by Jake Broder

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 25th Mar 2021 | Ireland, Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Disability

The thing about UnRavelled is that it’s one of those plays that even a week after seeing it random...

Works Process at The Guggenheim: Isolation to Creation Docuseries

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 16th Feb 2021 | New York, News, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

Midway through the first episode of Isolation to Creation, a docuseries produced as part of this...

Hybrid Vigor: Frankenthaler and Ravel, Part of the “Hearing Color, Seeing Time” Series

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 31st Oct 2020 | Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America

To the right of the piano, hung on the far wall of the space, was the ravishing 103 x 172.5 inch acrylic on canvas. The Frankenthaler abstract painting dominated the space with a wash of undulating colors and shapes. Rothenberg opened with commentary about the connections between these two works of art explaining that while it’s challenging to talk about abstract works, as Baudelaire wrote, sometimes the combination of two difficult pieces can clarify and reveal the heart of the works.

Interview: Em Weinstein Discusses “SOLDIERGIRLS”

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 16th Sep 2020 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, Polish Theatre Archives, United States of America

For theater, I like to give myself constraints. So for this, the constraint was that I wanted to write this for two people, partially because I love 2-person plays. There aren’t enough of them, and also, they’re so much more producible, and it’s amazing to watch two people pull something off, so I gave myself that challenge. It sort of opened up the door for me in terms of what the piece was going to be like stylistically – I wanted it to be a bunch of different genres and I wanted it to be ironic and funny and also heartfelt at the same time. That was all sort of outside-in thinking about this piece which isn’t always how it is, but helped me get into it. The more I worked on it, the more I have fallen in love with the characters and their story, but it frankly came about by thinking about the structure itself, and what I wanted to play to feel like and how I wanted it to be formed versus what it was actually going to be – form then content rather than the other way around.