Molly Rice’s The Saints Tour runs Wed.- Sat. this week. Audiences are limited to 25 each evening @ 5 shows total. Including Tour Guide Taylor Mac and director Rachel Chavkin, over 20 musicians/ artists are participating in this traveling narrative honoring misfits, supernatural beings and
New Dance Alliance announces the 24th annual Performance Mix Festival presenting over thirty dance, music, video, and interdisciplinary artists from New York City, across the United States and Canada, Spain and France. Highlights of the festival include New York City’s cabaret sensation Yozmit and celebrated
Well, benefit season is gearing up! One of the first of the season is ERS and it looks like a good one: Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in
For some reason I’ve been listening to Derek and the Dominos nonstop. I couldn’t find any youtube videos with Clapton and Duane Allman together, but this video of the band on Johnny Cash’s TV Show is pretty great.
Was just talking with some friends about the amazing work that Jay Wegman has done at Abrons Arts Center. In a few short years he’s taken an off-the-beaten-path nothing of a space and turned it into a veritable hive of contemporary performance activity, easily one
Thursday, April 22 at 3 + 6:30 p.m The vision of climate change provided by the arts complements the analytical information given by the science. The landscape of numbers can be populated by dreams in the form of images, dance or music, leading to a
P.S.1’s Saturday Sessions April 10, 4:00–6:00 p.m. Performances will take place in the courtyard. Liz Magic Laser hosts Saturday Sessions and debuts Flight, her new performance based on scenes from popular cinema in which people chase one another up and down stairs. Developed in collaboration with actors Lindsey Andersen, Nic
Was just checking out the blog Another Bouncing Ball that had a post on Jesse Bernstein. Jesse’s work loomed large over Seattle in the early 90’s and he was, posthumously, a big influence on me when I was still writing poetry and making spoken word
Just got back from the Dixon Place Lounge’s Grand Opening. Here’s a picture of DP founder and artistic director and everything-in-chief doing a little speechifyin’: If I haven’t sufficiently expressed my love for Dixon Place recently, well now is the time to make it up.
He was known as the British Andy Warhol, the P.T. Barnum of punk and Dick Clark from hell. Malcolm McLaren died Thursday in a Swiss sanitarium after a long struggle with cancer. He was 64. Read the rest on NPR.
This weekend I’m going to try to make it to BAC as Trisha Brown Dance Company launches its 40th Anniversary Celebration featuring the enigmatic solo If you couldn’t see me (1994), and the rarely performed Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980), featuring a landscape of fog
New Georges is happy to announce that the company has received a three-year, $90,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which supports the creation of an artistic director’s discretionary fund. This grant is intended to help New Georges maintain financial stability during these volatile