Month: September 2010

  • Bushwick Starr Announces 2010-2011 Season

    The Bushwick Starr just announced its first full season of programming. With work from Witness Relocation, 31 Down, Half Straddle and Two-Headed Calf it looks like an auspicious debut!

  • Incubator Arts Project Accepting Residency Proposals

    The Incubator Arts Project is now accepting applications for the 2011-2012 season.

  • Five Questions for Michael Rioux

    Contributor Jeremy M. Barker has five questions for Michael Rioux, a Seattle-based dancer and choreographer performing as part of Ten Tiny Dances at the 2010 TBA Festival in Portland, Oregon.

  • Border Towns at HERE Arts Center

    Nick Brooke’s Border Towns is a multimedia mash-up vision of Americana, using audio samples and live performance to create a fractured sonic and physical landscape that reflects the complexity of our Imagined America.

  • Ask Andy!

    We’ve decided to start a new feature here on Culturebot – an advice column called ASK ANDY which is a chance to get your questions answered. Do you have questions about art, life, love, anything whatsoever? Ask Andy!

  • Nora Chipaumire & Souleymane Badolo’s Charming New Piece at DNA

    Nora Chipaumire and Souleymane Badolo’s new dance work Art/Family/Our Lives: I Ka Nye, at DNA through Sunday, Sept. 12, made me chuckle. A lot. Charmingly simple and straightforward, I Ka Nye explores the construction of family through movement, music, and text.

  • Selective Memory at the Chocolate Factory

    Selective Memory is described as a real time video performance but somehow that only scratches the surface. It puts you into a slow and focused state of consciousness that hovers between hyperawareness and revery.

  • Philadelphia Live Arts: FREEDOM CLUB

    John Wilkes Booth is quite the man about town these days—or about the theater, and in two towns, really. Luigi Creatore’s An Error of the Moon, about John and his brother Edwin, plays through October 10 at the Beckett Theater in New York, directed by Kim Weild. Meanwhile, John and the unfortunate Abraham Lincoln are…

  • The Silly Consensus

    In Alastair Macaulay’s review of Ann Liv Young’s CINDERELLA he refers to the “silly consensus” of an audience complicit with the antics of the performer. Culturebot editor Andy Horwitz expands on this idea.

  • A Pair of Kings: John Douglas Thompson

    Last Sunday in Lenox, Massachusetts, audience members got their Bard on with ample sword-fighting and an autumnal chill in the late summer air at the final, sold-out performance of Shakespeare & Company’s Richard III. The company, a classical boot camp in all things Shakespearean, dispatches dueling actors onto the patio pre-show to demonstrate their hard…

  • Five questions for Nellie Rainwater

    “I feel as though each dance piece should be like a poem that exists in a space beyond words….” Culturebot Contributor DJ McDonald has five questions for choreographer Nellie Rainwater

  • Whither the Political Theatre?

    South African playwright Athol Fugard has excoriated his fellow playwrights in Britain and America for failing to maintain the tradition of politically engaged theatre. But maybe the problem is that playwrights already agree with him and are trying to follow in his footsteps–only, that mode of political theatre just doesn’t matter anymore.