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Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco is the author of Drive By (Smooth Friend); Certain Things (Afternoon Editions); Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse); The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited); and petit cadeau, published in live, digital, and print editions by The Chocolate Factory. Her collaborators include visual artist Anne Walsh, choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, with whom she is animals & giraffes, an experiment in interdisciplinary improvisation that performs across the US and has released three albums. She was a critic for The New York Times (2005-15), editorial director of Open Space (2016-21), and now edits The Back Room at Small Press Traffic.

Reviews• December 20, 2024

Arenas of Freedom

By Claudia La Rocco

“Time is more than a container; time participates.” —Susan Rethorst, A Choreographic Mind   I often enter retrospectives with a certain girding of the…

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Features• May 15, 2024

Loosening the Stays

By Claudia La Rocco

Bowdoin College is not a place particularly accommodating to weirdos—or at least it wasn’t when I attended lo these many years ago. Perhaps things have changed…

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