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The Gym No. 18: Balance forward
December 16, 2023
Several Wednesdays ago, Zadie Smith took questions after reading from her novel The Fraud in a small auditorium in a big conference center at the University...
The Gym No. 17: Le corps de corp
September 2, 2023
Caveat: No actual economic theories or legal expertise were used in the making of this letter. Ugo Rondinone's 7 Magic Mountains, "a creative expression of...
The Gym No. 16: Adofluorescence
May 28, 2023
Yeah, I made it up. fluorescence: the emission by a substance of electromagnetic radiation especially in the form of visible light as the immediate result of...
The Gym No. 15: Tools and errors
December 30, 2022
Tiny musings to end a big year Sometime early this year, I was grating parmesan over a sheet pan of family-size baguette-pizza with a small stainless-steel...
The Gym No.14: Dispatch
November 3, 2022
From the edges of post-pandemic togetherness, spaces, and displacement The Bug Theatre stage in 1993. Photo by Reed Weimer and courtesy of the Bug Theatre....
The Gym No. 13: Fugue instinct
August 13, 2022
On stopping, going, and tentacles By early June, I’d stopped thinking about the future. Summers are short, but sending our kids back to school on the other...
The Gym No. 12: Here, there, and everywhere
May 21, 2022
On context and altars, where it landed As a critic writing in the immediate wake of a performance or experience, I felt the context in which things had...
The Gym No. 11: Archives and influences
March 6, 2022
Yesterday morning, I hurried from my side-street parking spot to Women and Their Work gallery for an event titled “Deborah Hay | Screening & Conversation.”...
The Gym No. 10: Open gym
February 19, 2022
Hey there. How’s your 2022? I still feel like I’m just peeking out. Do you read New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl? I love his effusion and unabashed...
The Gym No. 9: Unflattening
December 18, 2021
On somatic accountability, interface$, and metaverse gaslighting In summer 2021, finally vaccinated but still very much tethered to home and videoconference...
The Gym No. 8: In lieu of a story
October 10, 2021
What does it mean to initiate movement from the core, from the hip, from the knee, from the toe? Each activation point tugs the body to react in different...
The Gym No. 7: Roots
June 13, 2021
Hey there. I’ve been tossing this letter around for months—between the hands of despair and hope, of anger and spring, of documenting and moving on. The...
The Gym No. 6: Uncentering (with a few more thoughts on Space)
March 6, 2021
Ah, I dreamed I was at the theatre—it was small, a blackbox. There would be a dance performance, but I didn’t get to see it. All I remember is the warmth of...
The Gym No. 5: Space
February 6, 2021
Heya, you still there? My experiment continues: I’m picking this bitty letter back up. It’ll be a little different. I can’t say for sure all the ways how,...
The Gym No. #%^# wtf I love you edition
March 17, 2020
Hey guys, I thought I’d given up this little platform but it’s here, and you’re out there, so I thought I’d use it. The main thing I want to share is, I’m...
The Gym No. 4: Gigs
September 27, 2018
“I asked her whether it was possible both to love something and leave it alone.” —Zadie Smith, Swing Time It’s the pulling that I can’t figure out. Neither...
The Gym No. 3: Proof
April 12, 2018
This is one of those letters that might seem intentionally knitted at the start but unravels. A year or two ago, I participated in an academic conference on...
The Gym No. 2: On the Record
February 28, 2018
Hi there, First, thanks to everyone who said “cool” and told me NOT to unsubscribe them and sent me their thoughtful responses to The Gym No. 1—responses...
The Gym No. 1
February 2, 2018
Hey there. I hope you all are doing well. The Gym is my new letter ritual (i.e, quiet newsletter, lo-fi digital zine, finite wander zone, loose ends,...