Joining the Under the Radar Mourners

08/01/23 • 18 min

My friend and I enjoy coming up with more accurate names for performing arts festivals here in NYC. You like the Next Wave Festival at BAM? Me too! We call it the Previous Wave, though, because almost everything in it hit its stride 30 to 40 years ago. Which is not to say it’s not good! Pina Bausch’s company still performs her work with integrity and style. But Pina Bausch died 14 years ago and the last time she was a new up and coming artist was around about 40 or 50 years ago.

Now everyone’s talking about the Under the Radar Festival recently, due to its being canceled, either permanently or temporarily. My friend and I used to call it the Directly in Line with the Radar Festival due to its shows mostly being works and companies already receiving a fair amount of attention, often European. That is, directly in line with the radar if you happen to have a radar that detects weirdo performing arts. Most of NYC’s Indie Arts scene could be standing directly in front of the Public Theater (home of Under the Radar or UTR) waving our arms and shouting, “Hey Radar! Run that radar this way, would you?” But somehow almost everyone I know was under Under the Radar’s radar.

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This is Episode 361

Song: Under the Radar

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