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Stage Write is a blog about time-based art, and our changing relationship to performances that require protracted attention. As I witness plays and dance concerts, I'll be responding to them in terms of their value in an ecology of time. We'll be considering whether the young are really wired differently from us 20th-century fossils, and how performance works from earlier centuries hold up in the new digital landscape. If it asks us to sit in the dark and watch it, and is enacted before us by wetware, it's fair game. I hope you'll engage these subjects with me.

Elizabeth Zimmer has been writing about the arts since 1971, beginning as a freelancer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A native New Yorker, she has worked as a writer and editor for ...

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