Month: October 2005

  • The Plain of Heaven

    (a clarification – i was so busy i didn’t read this very closely when i got Creative Time newsletter. Below is from their site about the current exhibition: The Plain of Heaven is an international exhibition inspired by the impending redevelopment of the High Line, the disused elevated rail structure that runs up the west…

  • Dear Land, New Music

    Thursday night marks the return of new music at P.S. 122. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), one of the most exciting groups on the new music scene, will begin a run of Dear Land, an evening of two compelling works of contemporary music. One is the World Premiere of Chinese-American composer Du Yun’s (pictured above)…

  • art or pornography

    Well, in this week’s issue of The New Yorker, Hilton Als suggests that contemporary performance might be a little less boring if it incorporated the more presentational and theatrical aspects of contemporary music: the histrionics of Karen O. from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, say. I don’t know – I’ve seen a lot of stuff with…

  • Sarah Schulman

    “I never thought that being out in my work would have the financial consequences that it has had,” she said. “I thought that the world would evolve in such a way that people would appreciate the boldness of my content, and be able to see clearly my scope of craft and palette. I really never…

  • Saar Harari

    Choreographer Saar Harari trained as a dancer in Israel until the age of 18 when he began his compulsory military service with the Israeli Defense Forces, eventually becoming a commanding officer of a special combat unit. Upon returning to civilian life he resumed his career as a dancer. Herd of Bulls uses the movement vocabulary…

  • Grrrls On Stage

    We just saw Ann Liv Young’s Michael at DTW on Thursday. From the Times article linked to above and other preview press we had a sense of what to expect and were not disappointed. It was certainly as explicit and brash as we had been told. It was unlike any other work we’ve seen recently…

  • Herd of Bulls

    Saar Harari’s Herd of Bulls got a nice review in today’s NY Times. Herd is a powerful piece o’ work. check it out. It runs at P.S. 122 through Sunday.

  • Mo’ Murray At Mo Pitkin’s

    “The King of Comedy” and infamous nightlife personality, MURRAY HILL, “the hardest working middle-aged man in show business” brings his legendary boozy, uncensored and Hill-arious THE MURRAY HILL SHOW exclusively to the newly opened Mo Pitkins every Saturday night –bringing Saturday night back to downtown. Due to popular demand, the show has been extended through…

  • nyc dance journal

    Tom Pearson of Third Rail Dance (and formerly of DTW) has started a new dance blog NYC Dance Journal. Check it out.

  • tragedia endogonidia

    Just got back from Montclair, NJ and the Kasser Theater where we attended the American premiere of Romeo Castellucci‘s Tragedia Endogonidia which was pretty amazing. Tragedia consists of 9 episodes, each one in a different city. This episode is from London originally. It is an hour of surreal, disturbing and visually arresting performance and stagecraft.…

  • New Pavol Liska

    COLUMBIA STAGES Presents POETICS: a ballet brut conceived & directed by Pavol Liska October 19-22, 2005 at 8PM October 22 at 3PM at The Theatre of the Riverside Church 91 Claremont Avenue, between West 120th and 121st Street POETICS: a ballet brut, conveived and directed by PAVOL LISKA, is a non-verbal performance that strips theater…

  • Shiny Shiny Boots of Leather

    Back when Culturebot was just knee high to a grasshopper dreaming of a dark, dank, sinful bohemian New York, he would sit and listen to the Velvet Underground’s first record over and over again. Particularly alluring were the ominous strains of John Cale’s violin in Venus in Furs. Lou Reed’s weary, yearning voice, the elliptical…