Month: April 2010

  • Cynthia Hopkins at Soho Rep – 99 Cent Sundays on Sale Friday

    Cynthia Hopkins, writer, composer and performer of the acclaimed “Accidental Trilogy” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, brings her singular style to Soho Rep for her new show, THE TRUTH: A TRAGEDY. (starts May 6).  With song, dance, and text, she weaves real and fictional narratives and leads us into an engrossing and funny multi-faceted world–literally transforming…

  • Five Questions for Pavel Zustiak

    Name: Pavel Zustiak Title/Occupation: Artistic Director, Choreographer, Sound Designer Organization/Company: Palissimo Inc. URL: www.palissimo.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in the eastern part of the former Czechoslovakia, which is now Slovakia. I studied in Canada then in Amsterdam, Netherlands before getting…

  • Idan Cohen's Swan Lake at CPR

    Just got back from the Center for Performance Research where I saw Israeli choreographer Idan Cohen’s 2009 version of Swan Lake. I’m not too familiar with the big hits of ballet so I was lucky that Evan was there with her friend Mary to bring me up to speed. And though having some familiarity with the original is probably…

  • ENJOY at 59E59

    For those of you who missed Japan’s Chelftisch Theater Company when they were at the Japan Society in February 2009, now is a great chance to check out the work of Toshiki Okada- one of Japan’s hippest and hottest playwrights. The Play Co.’s presentation of Okada’s ENJOY, currently playing at 59E59, is an excellent interpretation…

  • LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB at EMPAC

    EMPAC announced their first summer lab for interactive media in performance to be held August 16-22, 2010. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.…

  • The Valuation of Art vs. Performance

    Just got back from the Intersections with Art and Performance panel discussion at MESTC. It was a really fascinating panel and discussion but we didn’t get to the one thing that always gets my goat, which is the disparity in valuation of live art performance and theater-as-performance. There is a huge infrastructure around museum culture…

  • FEAST RFP

    Most of you probably know FEAST  [Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics] is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging art makers. Well, they’ve announced an open call for proposals for their next funding opportunity. For all the details click here.

  • Ford Foundation's Supporting Diverse Art Spaces Initiative

    Another exciting news nugget about the Ford Foundation’s new initiative: In addition to helping arts groups build new spaces and renovate and expand old ones, the latest initiative aims to encourage the construction of affordable housing for artists in or around some of these spaces and to spur economic development in their surrounding areas. Read…

  • Bill T. Jones, Dance Theater Workshop to merge

    The 25-year-old Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is in final negotiations to merge with Dance Theater Workshop. The two groups will combine their boards and staff into one entity with a new name and mission, though the final details are still being worked out. Read more in Crain’s. And here’s the article in the…

  • Jay Scheib's Bellona at The Kitchen

    Jay Scheib’s Bellona, Destroyer of Cities [and adaptation of Samuel Delany’s Dahlgren] is a sensory overload of a surreal sci-fi mindfuck, a seriously epic vision of a post-apocalyptic city.  It is slippy and unnerving, violently sexual, brash, troubled and troubling. The show takes place in Bellona, which has been decimated by some disaster that no-one…

  • Save the date(s) – whirling visitation at abrons

    Just got this note from JEREMY WADE: Dear Folks, Viva Neuva York!! I am beyond psyched to invite you to a little show we have been cooking up called “The Whirling Visitation” – A hallucinogenic amalgam of Movement, Text, Sound and Song in reverence of sparkling transgressive events that open up and swallow us whole!!…

  • Faye Driscoll at DTW

    Just got back from Faye Driscoll’s There is so much mad in me at DTW. It was a fun thrill ride of a show and the sold-out audience agreed with me, receiving the work with rapt attention and thunderous applause. Ably and energetically performed by Lindsay Clark, Lily Gold, Michael Helland, Tony Orrico, Jennie MaryTai…