Month: January 2006

  • No Great Society

    Elevator Repair Service has been called “The best experimental theater troupe in town” by New York Magazine. Most Culturebot readers are familiar with their work, but if you aren’t you should be. Join us this thursday for the opening night of No Great Society at P.S. 122. From the website: No Great Society is a…

  • Urban Research Theater

    Urban Research Theater is looking for participants. We don’t know much about them, but it seems like an interesting project. According The Urban Research Theater is an ongoing laboratory for practical research in physical and vocal craft. Elements of work such as movement structures and song fragments are used as tools toward the development of…

  • Performance Mix Festival

    new dance alliance presents the 20TH anniversary performance mix festival – six evenings featuring experimental dance, music, and multi-disciplined works from boston, new york city, philadelphia, washington, d.c., montreal,toronto,winnipeg and toulouse, france at joyce soho 155 mercer street. pre-performance video documentary: looking back, edited by Charles Dennis. tuesday, march 28 through sunday, april 2, 2006…

  • Solar Powered Again

    Solar One is currently accepting submissions for its Second Annual Solar Powered Dance Festival to take place over two weekends this summer, as part of the 2006 Solar Powered Arts Festival. Emerging artists are strongly encouraged to submit materials for consideration by the festival selection panel. DEADLINE: February 28, 2006

  • The Business of Dance

    Pentacle and the Hunter College Dance Program Present EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES: Foundations for Your Artistic Vision. This is a retreat devoted to the professional infrastructure of the art form and teaching artists how to gain real skills and experience in the business of dance Saturday, February 4, 2006 9:30am to 5:00pm Hunter College, Dance Program Thomas…

  • great big satan

    Deranged children, Tenessee Williams’ grandmas, hasidic landlords, ancient men of wisdom, possessed woodland creatures, pop stars, and yes, the one and only Liza Minnelli gather but once a year in the Dark Forest. There, they face an evil so deep, so dangerous, so disturbing, that to look directly in its face is to see the…

  • The Orchard Project

    We just received an email announcing The Orchard Project, a dynamic theatre center empowering the development of new voices, productions and ideas by bringing diverse companies and artists together in an ideal collaborative space. Located in a former resort on 80 acres within the Catskill National Forest Preserve atop the Hunter and Windham Mountaintop range,…

  • Breaking the Windy City (Part I of III)

    What’s a little spinal fluid between you and a friend? Screw it. And what’s a little bit of alcohol poisoning? And what’s a little fight? Tomorrow you’ll be boys again –Drug Ballad, Eminem The import hoochie bounced so Jesse J. invited me to a pool party with the cast of PERICLES, being done at the…

  • PodArt Two

    31Grand and Fine Art in Space recently presented PodART, the first group exhibition of video art intended to be viewed and sold solely on the iPod. The artists that participated included Gogol Bordello, Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers Jason Clay Lewis, Nelson Loskamp, MTAA, Marisa Olson, Eugenio Percossi, Jean Pigozzi, Adam Stennett, Lee Walton, and Jeff Wyckoff.…

  • Outside/Input (slight return)

    Culturebot readers may recall that back in June we talked with Morgan Pecelli and Daniel Nelson, curators of Outside/Input, the Ontological’s new interdisciplinary development series. Well, the artists were selected in December and have been working over the past few months to make their work. Starting February 4th, and continuing through May, there will be…

  • What is APAP?

    In case you were wondering what the deal is with APAP, check out this article in the NY TIMES.

  • Post-APAP Decompression

    Phew! What a crazy few days. What has happened since last we spoke? On Sunday we started early at the HERE Hybrid Performance Brunch where we saw excerpts from work by their HARP artists. That was pretty fun. Later we came back to P.S.122 to see a little bit more of COIL – this time…