Ann Liv Young's Snow White (2005)
How could I have forgotten to include The Kitchen in my list of fall dance picks yesterday? My apologies–especially because their fall lineup is incredibly strong.
Un-missables include:
Radiohole, ANGER/NATION, Sep 11-27
Ann Liv Young, The Bagwell in me, Oct 2-4
RoseAnn Spradlin, Blue Liz, Oct 23-25
Beth Gill, What Do You See?, Nov 20-22
Posted by Lana | Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | 0 comments
Upcoming Lecture by Art-historian Briony Fer
Annual Hilla Rebay Lecture: The Life of Things: Eva Hesse’s Studiowork at the Guggenheim, Sep 9
Briony Fer, Professor of Art History, University College, London
Briony Fer is a remarkable lecturer. Erudite and a classically trained art-historian, she is an inventive thinker and brings wonderful language to her live presentations.
Category Visual Art
Posted by RoseLee Goldberg | Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | 1 comments
Performa alumni Marten Spangberg, to be featured in the Movement Research Fall Festival
The Chocolate Factory’s website mysteriously has no information about the next installment of this popular bimonthly program of short works, but its curators, Andrew Dinwiddie and Jeff Larson, always seem to put together a terrific show.
(Another “don’t miss” is Andrew Dinwiddie’s upcoming solo show at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Accursed Items, running Sep 3-6)
Trajal Harrell at Dance Theater Workshop, Oct 15-18
Trajal Harrell’s last New York presentation, Showpony (2007), had a lot of interesting content, and this new work promises even more–it’s inspired by composer Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, which he wrote from a Nazi prison camp during World War II.
Plus, in DTW’s new “10 Questions” section (in which they ask the same 10 questions of every choreographer they’re presenting), Trajal gives the best answer I’ve seen yet:
9. Who would win in a fight between Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor?
Martha Graham
So true.
Dada Von Bzdulow Dance Theater at Danspace Project, Oct 2-4
“Who are they,” you might say, “And why are they a pick?”
a) They’re from Poland, a country due to experience a massive cultural renaissance any day now, following in the wake of fellow hip Eastern European nations the Czech Republic and Romania.
b) The title of their piece, Factor T., refers to “Polish novelist, philosopher, and poet Stefan Themerson’s theory of the eternal tragedy”–pretty funny!
c) How often does Danspace actually show dance theater? It’s worth going out to if only to support this breath of diversity in their programming.
The Movement Research Fall Festival at Danspace Project, Dec 4-6 & 11-16
Featuring an all-star list of downtown dance luminaries as well as several Performa alumni: Mårten Spångberg, Jennifer Walshe, and, as curatorial adviser for the festival alongside Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins! The first week of the festival “showcases nine contemporary artists who will develop scores in response to conversations and game playing with the renowned Steve Paxton. This performance investigation, which explores conceptual and spatial thinking, takes it cue from Paxton’s daily Chinese Checkers game with his neighbor, during which the players continually rearrange the pattern of the board to keep their strategies alive and spontaneous.”
An entire festival dedicated to Steve Paxton’s daily Chinese Checkers game–what’s not to love?
During the second week of the festival, a special “don’t miss” for what I think might be the long overdue US debut (please correct me if I’m wrong here) of Portugese choreographer Vera Mantero.
Also of note:
Bebe Miller & Company at Dance Theater Workshop, Nov 11-15
Sally Gross & Company at Joyce SoHo, Nov 13-16
Limon Dance Company at the Joyce, Dec 2-7
This year’s season will include two masterpieces–Anna Sokolow’s Rooms (1955) and Jose Limon’s The Traitor (1954), a gripping condemnation of McCarthyism. But then again–you can’t beat the stunning black-and-white cinematography in the film version of The Traitor, and tickets to the Joyce are like $200!
Posted by Lana | Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | 1 comments
Maguy Marin’s Umwelt is a distressingly powerful summation of the world in which we’re currently living, especially the one geographically bound by the waters of Hurricane Katrina, the bomb-mangled markets of Bazra, the cyclone in Myanmar, the collapsed mountains, buildings and crushed limbs of the people of the Sichuan Province, China. A howling wind blows throughout 60 minutes as nine dancers, hair and clothing at ninety degree angles, their bodies pushing against currents of air, race from left to right through static corridor made up of vertical panels. Partially mirrored, and functioning both as door frame and street architecture, the set keeps the performers regimented in their daily grind, as they act out a series of everyday moves, over and over, as we do, every day.
Category REVIEWSPosted by RoseLee Goldberg | Monday, August 25th, 2008 | 0 comments
Last weekend: Play The Building by David Byrne
This weekend is the last chance to experience this beautiful sound installation by David Byrne that’s been going on since 31st of May.
Creative Time presents Playing the building, a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
David Byrne - Play The Building
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon – 6PM
Battery Maritime Building, 10 South Street, New York City
Subway Stop: Whitehall St, South Ferry Station
Free
Posted by Georg | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | 1 comments
E.A.T. Films at MoMA August 18th!
Museum of Modern Art Film Program
*Monday, August 18, 2008*
6:00 p.m.
*9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering*
Growing interest in the new technologies generated by the rapid developments of the early 1960s led several artists to collaborate with Billy Klüver and his fellow engineers at Bell Laboratories. In1966 Klüver and Robert Rauschenberg initiated a project in which ten invited artists—John Cage, Lucinda Childs, & Oyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman—worked for ten months in collaboration with thirty Bell Laboratories engineers and scientists to develop custom technical equipment that was integrated into the artists works in in a series of performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering presented in October 1966 at New York City’s 69th Regiment Armory. This program presents two
of the live events, which were faithfully reconstructed through original documentary film and sound materials. These films and reconstructions of the remaining seven 9 Evenings performances will be shown in October 2 and 3.
*9 Evenings: Variations VII by John Cage. *2008 USA. Directed by Barbro
Schultz Lundestam 41 min.
*9 Evenings: Bandoneon!**[Bandoneon Factorial] by David Tudor *2008
USA. Directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam 12 min.
Posted by Esa | Friday, August 15th, 2008 | 1 comments
Rachel Mason at Swiss Institute, August 17th
RACHEL MASON // The Terrestrial Being
PERFORMANCE: SUN, 10PM
Live, from the façade of 495 Broadway, Swiss Institute invites you to a window concert of Rachel Mason and The Gun, an expanding musical project. Mason will introduce New York to The Terrestrial Being. Guests are invited to watch the window-set from across the street.
Rachel Mason is a songwriter, performer and sculptor. She has performed at the Kunsthalle, Zurich, Art in General, and Bard College. Her musical collaborators are Hugo Moreno and John Allen. Moreno is a multi instrumentalist and has recently played at the Marlboro and Spoleto USA music festivals. Allen, a musicologist and guitarist, plays with Maxi Geil and hosts a radio show on WFMU.
Please RSVP by Friday, August 15
piper AT swissinstitute.net
Posted by Esa | Thursday, August 14th, 2008 | 0 comments
Rhys Chatham’s 200 Guitars at Lincoln Center 8/15
Rhys Chatham’s A Crimson Grail for 200 Guitars
@Lincoln Center’s Out Of Doors festival
Free! - Fri. Aug. 15th, 7:30 p.m.
Composer Rhys Chatham and section leaders John King, Ned Sublette, David Daniell, and Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family) lead an oversized orchestra of 200 volunteer guitarists and electric bassists in the world premiere of A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) performed not on the Bandshell stage but along the sides of the audience at Damrosch Park, to heighten the work’s polyphonic effect. The work, originally composed for Paris’ famed Sacré-Coeur, has been extensively revised to suit the dynamics of the Park’s outdoor acoustic.
Directions:
By subway: Take the 1 train to 66th Street/Lincoln Center Station or
the 1, A, B, C, D to 59th Street/Columbus Circle and proceed towards
62nd Street on Columbus Avenue.
Posted by Esa | Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 | 0 comments
Upcoming at Light Industry - good stuff!
Now there are two great reasons to trek to Sunset Park Brooklyn Light Industry and Diapason Gallery - stop whining about how far away it is- take the N or D train express - just a few stops from Union Square.
Cory Archangel
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 8pm
Content Producer
At long last Cory has finally learned all of the glockenspiel parts from the entire Born to Run album by Bruce Springsteen and will perform it LIVE on a real live instrument. One will have to see it to believe it but be there to cheer him on. Performa was fortunate to present a section of this ongoing musical at the Hudson theater last February - it was a private party so we forgive Cory for not mentioning this.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 8pm
PUBLIC OPINION LABORATORY presents:
All Magic Sands: Reels 1 + 2
Featuring the return of LAMP/LICHT: Andrew Lampert and Alan Licht
You can’t go wrong with these two - or maybe you can but I bet that you won’t be able to tell. Hopefully Light Industry was able to secure Belgian Trappist ale, the projectionist from England and raise the $4,300 that LAMP/LICHT need to do this show… oh wait - I think they decided to do something simpler. Go anyway.
Light Industry
Events take place in Industry City
55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232
http://www.lightindustry.org/
Posted by Esa | Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | 0 comments
9:08 pm (EST) this Friday, August 8: get ready for the much-anticipated Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, a top-secret performance that has been in the works for over three years now, directed by renowned filmmaker Zhang Yimou and featuring a fireworks display by Guggenheim-anointed art superstar Cai Guo Qiang.
It will be interesting to see how this artist-designed extravaganza compares to the fabulously imaginative 1992 Albertville Olympics Opening Ceremony, which was overseen by French choreographer Phillipe Decoufle–here’s a clip from that one:
According to ABC News, we should “be ready for a dramatic countdown, giant whales, an illuminated globe and performers flying through the air like Peter Pan.”
Watch a clip of the rehearsals of the fireworks show here:
And click here to see a leaked video of rehearsals of the performance spectacle.
I cannot wait.
Category EVENTSPosted by Lana | Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 | 0 comments
