Month: October 2011
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The Controversy Over Mike Daisey’s “Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”
The monologist’s new show has earned raves for his performance even as critics take issue with the content
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Playing With Cinema at The Invisible Dog
American artists – NTUSA, Miguel Gutierrez, Annie-B Parson and Dan Safer – use a few minutes of a French movie as the basis for their performances. Presented in association with Les Subsistances.
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Cuqui Jerez at The Performing Garage – October 13
Cuqui Jerez’ “The Rehearsal” is a mind-bendingly good time.
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Faustin Linyekula at The Kitchen – October 12
Faustin Linyekula’s “more more more….future” is an intense musical journey from soukous to psychedelia to hard rock and back again, a sociopolitical investigation of Congo, dancing at the edge of apocalypse and having a mighty good time.
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New Black Fest 2011 Started This Week
Jason Holtham and Keith Josef Adkins present the latest installment of their festival celebrating boundary-breaking emerging black theater artists
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La MaMa 50th Anniversary World Block Party
La MaMa celebrates 50 years with a World Block Party on Sunday October 16 from 2-6PM.
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BRIC Arts | Media Breaks Ground on New Home on Fulton Street
Work begins on the latest new high-end arts space in Brooklyn’s downtown cultural district, where BRIC will take up residency in 2013
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Pretty, Vacant: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre at BAM
Trying to see what’s there to see in Lin Hwai-min’s latest calligraphic exploration “Water Stains on the Wall”
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Life Interrupted: Rachid Ouramdane Explores the Experience of Trauma
“Ordinary Witnesses,” the first of two at NYLA, uses interviews with torture survivors to explore the human capacity to survive