Month: November 2006

  • La Mekanica Call for Entries

    For Culturebot’s international readership, here’s a call for participants for an international meeting of contemporary dance makers of the mediterranean…. From February 12th until February 18th 2007, La Mekanica (Barcelona) will organize an international meeting of professional contemporary dance makers of the Mediterranean Arab and European countries on the framework of Festival Complicitats 2007, a…

  • Unisex Salon — Call for Artists and Performers

    Downtown impresario Earl Dax is currently seeking performers for his new party at the Delancey. With a weekly party and 3 floors at our disposal, we’re going to be looking for a lot of creative contributors. We plan to use the back room on the first floor for exhibitions of visual art and photography and…

  • It’s Editor-tastic!

    So I just wanted to give all of Culturebot’s loyal readers an update on the evolution of the site. After much searching and interviewing, we have a new Editorial Team! Culturebot is very excited to begin expanding the operation and gearing up for the launch of Culturebot 2.0 in the near future. Please welcome the…

  • Peggy Jarrell Kaplan Exhibit at Feldman Gallery

    Add this to your calendar! Peggy Jarrell Kaplan Exhibit Contemporary Dance Portraits of Choreographers 1981-2006 November 18 – December 22 Opening reception: November 18, 6-8pm The Ronald Feldman Gallery will exhibit photographic portraits of choreographers and their dancers by Peggy Jarrell Kaplan. Selected from twenty-five years of work, the exhibition includes Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch,…

  • Space Grants

    FAR – Field Artist Residencies provide rehearsal and showing space grants to performing artists to develop a new piece, find new ways to generate material, work on collaborative ventures, or anything that would benefit from time and space. It is a lottery system, applications due December 1. More info here.

  • Grey Gardens and BAiT

    Oh just a random note. A friend took me to see Grey Gardens on Tuesday night and I’ve gotta say I really liked it. But maybe it was just being dazzled by all the pretty lights and the elaborate set and all the bells & whistles. I didnt see the version at Playwrights but according…

  • The Ghetto Gourmet

    I just got an email from a guy named Jeremy Townsend who runs the Ghetto Gourmet, a “restaurant without walls” based out of Oakland, CA. Apparently he started doing small, regular Monday night underground dining experiences and grew to wandering around the San Francisco Bay Area doing spontaneous and impromptu community dinner parties with eclectic…

  • Culturebot Birthdays

    Okay. So. Your humble editor turned 30-something on October 26th. He was so busy with work and HELL HOUSE and all that he didn’t plan anything, not a party, not nothing. The night before there was no heat in his building and none of his friends answered their phones so he spent the night before…

  • Move2Heal

    Registration is now open for Move2Heal, a workshop focusing on the inherent healing aspects of dance and movement led by ADAM McKINNEY, professional dancer and co-founder of DnA WORKS November 18, 2006 Saloman Arts 83 Leonard Street 12pm-6pm $125 About MOVE2HEAL: Traditional and indigenous cultures, around the world, have used movement, voice and performance to…

  • It’s BAiT-Tastic!

    The first reviews for Buenos Aires in Translation (BAiT) are in! George Hunka reviews Panic and Ex-Antwone here. PANIC by Rafael Spregelburd, directed by Brooke O’Harra with her company, The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf Infused with the aesthetics of low-budget horror movies, Panic follows a mother and her two children, remnants of an unclassifiable…

  • Bucharest Calling

    Another really cool international theater opportunity is Romania’s Monday Theatre @ Green Hours, which has been doing a series of performances in NYC over the past few days. Friday night Culturebot saw a performance of Bucharest Calling by Peca Stefan which was a gripping portrait of life in Bucharest, performed by Romanian actors, in English,…

  • Buenos Aires In Translation

    Tonight (Saturday) is opening night of Buenos Aires in Translation (BAiT). This is an incredibly exciting project and I strongly urge everyone who is interested in contemporary playwriting to attend at least one, if not all four, plays in this series. Buenos Aires is renowned as the playwriting epicenter of Latin America. Particularly over the…