Against La La Land
February 23, 2017
Damien Chazelle’s so-called homage to movie musicals carelessly pillages a fraught form, reifying the tradition’s latent racism, classism, and sexism.
Jess Goldschmidt
Jess Goldschmidt is a writer and choreographer. Her performance work has been seen at venues across New York City including CPR, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Ars Nova, as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In a previous life, she was a columnist for Philadelphia magazine. She lives in Brooklyn and hails from Central Jersey.