In Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! performance artist Alina Troyano asks: Where does one identity start and the other end? Can they even be separated?

The Filipino-born artist takes a journey through primordial mud, chimeric worlds, and suppressed psychic demons to honor trans people as channels of divinity.

Sheryl Oring has typed and sent thousands of messages to the White House every election since 2004 as part of her performance series I Wish to Say.

The artist's newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.

Shoji Yamasaki imitates plastic bags and other detritus moving in the breeze in his entrancing choreography series Littered Mvmnts.

With stops at sites of significance to Black and Cuban New Yorkers, the artist’s walking performance captures the essence of her practice: harnessing the collective toward a unified vision.

The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq multidisciplinary artist and choreographer communicates Indigenous movement systems and forms of knowledge through dance.

“We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez.

The bi-monthly variety show gathers both newcomers and veterans of the craft to help participants discover “the power in cringe.”

A sonic protest against colonial politics, a conceptual ice cream tasting, and other live and participatory experiences headlined the annual New York City festival.

Alexandra Neuman’s latest performance, The Collective Womb, reframes abortion as a natural exchange of energy between the body and the world.

A freewheeling interview with the 76-year-old trans activist, artist, playwright, actor, and OG gender outlaw.

The trials of a post-apocalyptic New York and hedonistic Rome become one another’s mirrors and choirs in The Industry’s double opera Comet/Poppea.

At the Queens Botanical Garden, A Fun Play About How Scary Climate Change Is illuminates possibilities for collective care and grassroots change.

Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films.

Performers carried one another the way we shoulder our friends, lovers, and family: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.

With this performance, Amorales reconciles the hopes and disappointments of generations past with our present reality.

“Dance is a healing modality,” choreographer Dr. Shamell Bell said. “And we need to heal ourselves in order to heal this world.”

Shakers mingle in this multimedia production at the New York Choral Society.

Olivier Tarpaga’s "Once the dust settles" produces a tension between horror and beauty as the piece explores motherhood, womanhood, and feminism under threat of overpowering subjugation.

Smaïl Kanouté’s performance piece “Never 21” honors the young men of color cut down by racism and gun violence before reaching that age.

STAR CHOIR presents opera singers, an orchestra, and a story set in a galactic tomorrow that hold various skin tones and earthly ethnicities.

Manhattan’s Grace Exhibition Space marked the opening of its fall season with over-the-top performances curated by the adored anti-fascist comedian.

The artist-performer's career undulates, ever so gracefully, across multiple mediums and registers of generational pain, healing laughter, and Indigenous joy.

Attending the artist CHOKRA’s performance introduced me to oud’s original purpose as a sacred healing tool that helps one recover from illness, mentally and physically.

At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Mobina Nouri took scissors to her own strands and invited others to do the same.

In their MLK Day performance inspired by LaToya Ruby Frazier's photo series, Sister Tour explored the relationship between Black women and water.

A primal, glitter-fueled scream was unleashed with Cyclona, giving birth to generations of queer Chicano performers.

While The 90s Onstage looks back to a dynamic moment in Turkey's performance art scene, Ata Doğruel's "Light Source" reflects on the present.

Speaking and singing in Korean with English subtitles, the cast leans on the traditional Korean folk storytelling tradition of pansori, and more modern musical accompaniment.

In She Who Lives on the Road to War, Rosy Simas combines installation and performance to address the immense losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MILK is an immersive, multisensory collaborative performance exploring a somber Greek tale of revenge.

The Terrestrial Trilogy shows how we can — and perhaps cannot — talk about pressing human and environmental emergencies.

When supply chains and funding fall short, theatre does too.

African scholars Felwine Sarr and Dorcy Rugamba seek to answer this question with the musical theatre performance Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day.

The art form continues to survive the return of in-person theatre, but maker-performers struggle with a lack of institutional support.

Traces — Speech to African Nations is a spoken word piece with music written by the acclaimed Senegalese scholar and performed by the Burkinabé actor Étienne Minoungou.

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the hybrid film/theatrical production is a dense and irreverent look at the performance of queerness.

The rendition could be a platform for essential conversations on sociohistorical and economic land rights issues.

The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.

Dobkin caught the attention of critics early on with her quirky and occasionally self-deprecating works, which often center lesbian identity.

What to Send Up When It Goes Down holds Black people at its center, inviting unique moments of commiseration, anger, and helplessness with no apologies.

Launching this month in Los Angeles, Boss Witch will support site-specific performances in Joshua Tree, Mono Lake, and more.

Debuting May 1, McKenzie’s Disturbing the View takes its inspiration from New York’s “squeegee men.”

"EVERYONE WAS INVITED" promises a heartfelt celebration and opportunity to get to know this under-sung yet influential artist.

On Sunday April 11, Patrisse Cullors will be restaging “F*ck White Supremacy, Let’s Get Free” online for a global audience.

Suzanne Lacy and her students suggest that screens can help us become more empathetic and aware of “each other’s practices, and realities.”

HaRaKa Platform’s Cairo KitKat Club pales in comparison to virtual performances mounted with only a fraction of the institutional support.”

The 8-hour online program will debut new works, reimaginings, and collaborations by artists such as Yvonne Rainer, Glenn Kaino, Barbara Kruger, and the WideAwakes.

Starting at Seneca Village and ending at the Manhattan Trump Hotel, artist Dragonfly honored the legacy of Ona Maria Judge Staines, who escaped from George and Martha Washington’s enslavement.