sorry. really. sorry. i’ve been submerged and i’m not sure where or how. adjusting, I guess, to my new schedule. trying to balance things, etc. etc.  I took up Ars Nova on the free ticket offer to Boom and maybe that was what did it, made me need to take a break from seeing theater for awhile. the straw that broke the camel’s back, as it were.

earlier in the week i went to the closing night of the Off The Wall exhibit at the Jewish Museum which was pretty cool and woefully under-promoted. there was some really interesting work.

um. anyway the rest of the week is a blur, though i was busy. and now its nearly 3AM and I’m up. I just read Hari Kunzru’s Raj, Bohemian in last week’s New Yorker and loved it. I was actually kind of bored reading it at first, but then it makes this cool left-turn in the story and becomes kind of dark and hilarious.  Read the story online here.

I need to sell my tv.

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I just got an email from ARS NOVA…. they’re offering free tickets to tonight’s (saturday) performance of the Alex Timbers-directed show BOOM to the first 10 people who e-mail them at rsvp@arsnovanyc.com.

Free theater! Yay!

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Experimental Music at The Ontological

curated by Travis Just

Christian Kesten composer portrait concert

Friday, March 28, 10pm, $5

Program:

The Suite (2008)

based on: zonder titel (schuif en ruis) (2007) | cypress park (2007) | dodger stadium (2007) | zunge lösen (1999/2002) | pa studieförbundet (2000/2006)

viola, guitar/electronics, voice, saxophone/clarinet, trombone, electric guitar/percussion, audio tape, video

The Room (2008)

violin, viola, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, five voices (male/female)

As part of the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator at St. Mark’s Church • 131 East 10th Street

For more information visit www.ontological.com or www.objectcollection.us

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I have never actually checked out this site but I’ve been getting these emails from someone named Rory:

Hey Hey!

Today on VBS.tv we have the one and only Miranda July. In ways that only Miranda can do, she shows us the science behind how to make buttons.

Here’s a hint. You need beer bottle caps and swiss cheese.

How to make a button with Miranda July:

http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1454975012

Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.

Rory

Okay, so it looks pretty neat-o. Now, Rory, I posted the video and linked to the site. When am I going to get start getting invited to those notorious Vice parties with the free booze, drugs, rock music and rampant naked mayhem? huh? that’s all I’m saying dagnabit.

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Solar One is now accepting submissions for its fourth annual 2008 Solar-Powered Dance Series as part of the 2008 Green Energy Arts Festival. Emerging artists are strongly encouraged to submit materials for consideration by the festival selection panel. Please see submission guidelines below or download an MS Word version here: Call for Submissions 2008.DEADLINE: April 1, 2008

After last year’s successful season, Solar One is pleased to announce its fourth annual Solar Powered Dance Series. Over the course of our 2007 series, hundreds of visitors and artists appreciated and enjoyed the richness of the arts experience at our unique solar-powered venue in Stuyvesant Cove Park, located on Manhattan’s East River waterfront. This year, we will again provide a much-needed new venue for dance and produce an exciting line up of performances by emerging choreographers.

Solar One’s 2008 Solar Powered Dance Series will be held over two weekends in Summer 2008 and will be divided into two three-day programs (Program A: July 24-26, Raindate July 27; Program B: July 31-August 2, Raindate August 3).

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Just saw Genesis, No! at DTW. I think this re-staging of Adrienne’s piece is a great example of why contemporary dance should be re-mounted.  (that’s a simplification, read Claudia LaRocco’s much more literate article in the Times).

I loved the piece when I saw it at PS122 last year and I loved it even more this time. In re-visiting the work, Ms. Truscott and her collaborators were able to  revise, edit & refine in ways that just aren’t usually possible in the downtown context. The entire piece cohered in a new and satisfying way, where before the hodgepodge of images and ideas seemed a result of the harried process, here it felt like a cohesive aesthetic. They trimmed the fat of the work and got down to the real essence of it.

In both they will use the highways and genesis, no! Ms. Truscott explores the possibilities of dance exploding everywhere. And in the context of DTW’s much larger and expansive space,  her playful sensibility makes that exploration even more surprising and exciting.

I don’t want to give any thing away, but anyone who is intimately familiar with downtown performances space will probably gasp and then laugh in recognition when the curtain goes up.

Also there’s a bit of meta-meta-meta art-within-life-within-art that I can’t share without giving the surprise away. If you know what/who I’m talking about, post it in the comments. If not, I’ll post it after the run is over…

Anyway – if you haven’t seen this piece, go see it.  Neal Medlyn, Carmine Covelli, Natalie Agee, Adrienne Truscott and a team of downtown all-stars make good!

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On June 21st, the first day of summer, NYC will join 300 other international cities in turning public spaces into musical stages. Its your turn to join in!

The City of New York is waiving its permitting fees for sidewalk performances encouraging hundreds of artists, professional and amateur, to come out and perform.

Any performance that is free, outdoors, open to the public, and featuring live music may be included, whether traditional or contemporary, local or international. Dance groups with live music accompaniment are also welcome to participate.

If you are a business or organization that would like to serve as an outdoor venue for musicians – you can sign up online too!

Make Music New York will be on Saturday, June 21st 2008.

Visit Make Music New York for more information or to sign up to participate by May 1.

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Gothamist interviewed Adrienne Truscott about her piece Genesis, No that premiered at PS122 in 2007 and is playing this week at DTW. I’m seeing it tonight!

I wish Gothamist would re-interview me! It’s been four years and so much has changed! Hey! Gothamist! Hey! You guys!!!

JK. Totes JK.

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last night we were supposed to go see the adding machine but at the last minute we were invited to the Speak Up benefit at St. Ann’s Warehouse. It was a pretty good show. Not amazing, but pretty good. Your basic benefit/protest fare with the downtown rock crowd: Lou, Laurie, David Byrne, Antony, Moby, Scissor Sisters and David Gray, I mean Glen Hansard, I mean Damien Rice … and lots more. Some good speeches, some long rambling ones. But mostly the show moved along at a brisk clip and was enjoyable.

But, yeah. The war. I was thinking about this the other day. So far there have been 3990 American Military Casualties in Iraq. That’s pretty bad. But there have also been at least 82,249 Iraqis killed. Can you imagine? That’s a LOT of people. I think we’d be pretty pissed if someone came to the United States and killed that many people.

Just a thought.

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