Monthly Archives: April 2010

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Luciana Achugar at The Kitchen

Luciana Achugar’s PURO DESEO at the Kitchen is several kinds of awesome and since there’s only one more night to see it, I would urge you to go check it out on Saturday. It is a black mass, an exorcism, a dark and creepy trip

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Fusebox Talks: Action Hero

In conjunction with the 7th annual Fusebox Festival, a contemporary art and performance festival that takes place in Austin, TX each April, culturebot.org presents Fusebox Talks, a series of interviews and podcasts with the select artists from the festival. The first podcast is with England’s

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Five Days in March at LaMama

In case you didn’t get enough Toshiki Okada at the Play Co.’s ENJOY here is another. Dan Safer and Witness Relocation apply their unique form of dance-theater to Okada’s FIVE DAYS IN MARCH. Also translated by Aya Ogawa, this will prove to be a very

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Five Questions for Deborah Black

Name: Deborah Black Title/Occupation:  performer URL: www.deborahblack.net 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in rural, western Pennsylvania, about 1.5 hours southeast of Pittsburgh in the Appalachian Mountains.  My grandfather had a fairly

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The Play Co. gets $135K from Mellon

The Play Company – currently presenting ENJOY at 59E59 – is delighted to announce it has been awarded a three-year, $135,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation designated to support an artistic director’s discretionary fund and cash reserves.   The grant is intended to help

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Robert Battle is new artistic director of Ailey

Judith Jamison today announced that her mantle as Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will pass to Robert Battle, a fast-rising choreographer who has created ballets for the Ailey company and Ailey II since 1999 and has served as an artist-in-residence with The

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Queer Conscience Festival at CPR

After serving as the Festival Director for the 2009 HOT! Festival, a six week, multi-site festival of queer performance and culture, Earl Dax presents Queer Conscience. Part of the “New Voices in Performance” series at the Center for Performance Research (CPR) in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Queer Conscience includes

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PICA announces line-up for TBA 2010

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) draws artists from across the country and around the globe for a convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media, and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon. Entering its eighth year, the TBA Festival is

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Stop/Action: Martha Colburn at the New Museum

This looks interesting: Filmmaker Martha Colburn orchestrates a night of multiple film projections, single-channel video, and handmade magic lantern effects with live accompaniment by an eclectic assortment of musical collaborators, including the post-classical pianist Thollem McDonas, drummer Ryan Sawyer (Lone Wolf, Stars Like Fleas, 88