Month: May 2006

  • Performing Arts Forum in France

    PAF: AN INITIATIVE FOR ARTISTIC AND CRITICAL RESEARCH INVITES PARTICIPANTS PAF (=PerformingArtsForum) is a place for professional and not-yet professional practitioners and activists in the field of performing arts, visual art, new media and internet, theory and cultural production, who seek to research and determine their own conditions of work. PAF is for people who…

  • rindfleisch dance

    Occasional Culturebot contributor Ryan Tracy is a member of the Collective Opera Company which is currrently working with dancer/choreographer Elke Rindfleisch on a new piece called “Damage”. The NY TIMES calls it “disturbing…sexy and fun.” Ryan says, “The project is the brainchild of Elke Rindfleisch, and in collaboration with composer Chris Woltmann and Collective Opera…

  • The ViM Diaries . . . The Interantional Student Body Politic

    “There was a very popular Puppet Opera in Tehran that my Mom went to go see? Do you know this Opera???” “Yes I know this Opera. I went to see it and your Mom was not there.” In keeping with what you have come to expect, I am not where I am supposed to be…

  • dancer wanted

    Palissimo dance theatre is looking for a male performer for the new production premiering at PS122 in December 2006 Audition is by invitation only ? to be considered please email your resume, photo and any relevant materials to the artistic director Palo Zustiak at palo@palissimo.com by May 29th,2006 We are looking for a male dancer/performer…

  • Great Small Works Wants You

    GREAT SMALL WORKS is looking for volunteers to perform THE RISING TIDE PARADE a procession through Lower Manhattan for the opening of the Summer, 2006 River to River Festival we need you! to march, dance, and carry puppets and flags representing a host of global rivers, riverboats and giant transforming structures WHEN & WHERE? rehearsals…

  • The ViM Diaries . . . Dear Dad~

    On May 18, 2006, at 8:59 PM, The Vanilla in Manila wrote: Hello Ivan, I believe by now that you have had the s ____ knocked out of you literally and are fully detoxified. How was it? I hope you have found us rooms in UBUD, Bali for the second leg of our vacation. I…

  • more on cleansing the senses

    nytheatre.com says, among other things: “Cleansing the Senses, an extraordinary theatrical happening all on its own, offers people who make, participate in, observe, and/or love theatre in 2006 a unique opportunity to (re)discover where much that we take for granted came from.” and “But the shape of the show and its implementation amount to a…

  • Prom Trauma at WYSIWYG on Tuesday

    And if you miss Culturebot’s rare public appearance on Monday, come to the WYSIWYG Talent Show on Tuesday at our new home, the Bowery Poetry Club. (now with more booze!) This month’s installment is “Prom Trauma” and its all about Prom-related events and mishaps and tales of misfortune, lust & probably hilarity. It is also…

  • Literary Death Match 3

    Um. Culturebot will be making one of his rare public appearances on Monday. And normally he doesn’t use his considerable power as Editor to promote himself. But I will be reading at Sweet Fancy Moses‘s Literary Death Match III on Monday May 22 and I must emerge victorious. I need your support. And possibly your…

  • Cleansing the Senses

    On Thursday night I attended the opening of Peter Rose’s show Cleansing the Senses and was really moved. Peter is a co-founder of P.S. 122 and he’s an intense guy. He’s a long-time acolyte of Grotowski, very into theatre as spiritual practice, and he comes from a really deep place. I wasn’t sure what to…

  • The Vanilla In Manila (ViM) Diaries

    “Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by…

  • P.S.122 co-founder Peter Rose Returns

    P.S. 122 co-founder Peter Rose returns to the space from May 18-28 with his new work “Cleansing The Senses.” Influenced by Grotowski and the Open Movement sessions he introduced at P.S. 122, the performance is a unique and dynamic experience. Peter writes: “Cleansing the Senses” is a performance for one actor. The performance is an…