Month: March 2009

  • Five Questions for: Caleb Hammons

    Name: Caleb Hammons Title/Occupation: Producing Director Organization/Company: Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company URL: www.youngjeanlee.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in a small town (population: 3,000) at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky.  Somehow I ended up at NYU/Tisch’s Experimental Theater…

  • feel the realness

    i’ve been busy so i’m behind the curve on this one but i want to chime in on Big Art Group‘s SOS at the Kitchen. I, for one, loved it. It is the Big Artiest of all their shows, the culmination of years of work and tinkering and refining the formula. this pitch perfect blend…

  • Reflect, Rethink, & Renew in Seattle

    Click here for an overview of the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention 2009. Apparently if you attend you will be able to: Reflect on innovative ideas from speakers in more than 75 field-crafted sessions, plus tours and activities throughout the region. Rethink the possibilities to grow our greatest renewable resources—the arts, culture, and creativity—with more than 1,400…

  • Obama stiffs the arts?

    “Memo to President Obama, from the arts world: This is not what we had in mind. During the campaign, candidate Obama raised high hopes among artists and arts institutions: He “got” their importance, even publishing an arts-policy statement. After the election, Quincy Jones fueled expectations with a crusade to create a Cabinet-level Minister of Culture…

  • If I Can’t Dance Tonight

    We have no idea if this is good. But we liked the picture and have heard good things. If you’re going to be in Amsterdam on Sunday, check it out. Sunday, the 29th of March, 16.00 hrs If I Can’t Dance Tonight with Emma Hedditch When I Do This, Can You Feel Something?   Frascati,…

  • Cinderella Toe Jam II: Royal Pink

    Culturebot recommends MEI-BE WHATever’s Cinderella Toe Jam II: Royal Pink at PS122. Thu, Apr 2 – Sun, Apr 5 Thursday – Saturday 8p Sunday 6:30p Royal Pink explores restriction through the body, resulting in a dance that reveals an unusual and unexpected beauty – the transformation of body, lives, movement. The piece’s choreography stylizes the…

  • video of the day: Le Théâtre du Soleil

    Apropos of Le Théâtre du Soleil’s upcoming performance of Les Éphémères to the Lincoln Center Festival in July (tix here), here’s a YouTube snapshot of attending the eight-hour show at its original home at La Cartoucherie, an old munitions factory complex in Vincennes. More video on the production (all in French as far as I…

  • Location One Virtual Residency

    this looks cool! [thanks to talia for the heads-up]: Location One Virtual Residency Project Call for Submissions Application Deadline: midnight, April 15, 2009 Dates of Residency: May 15-August 15, 2009 Theme: “Levels of Undo” Call for submissions for Location One’s “Virtual Residency Project 2.0″. Please send your URL or submit electronic materials to virtualresidency@location1.org. For…

  • Five Questions for: Perry Garvin

    Name: Perry Garvin Title/Occupation: Digital Projects Manager Organization/Company: New Museum URL: http://www.perrygarvin.net 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in San Francisco, California and made it to New York City so that I could get my MA in Art History from Columbia and…

  • video of the day: Pilobolus + branded culture

    Given the conversation lately around merging high and low culture, I think it’s appropriate to take a look at Pilobolus — a company with 30+ years of artistic acclaim in modern dance that added a Creative Services branch in 1997. So in addition to creating new work, touring, holding workshops, etc, they provide branded artistic…

  • triumph in the Garden

    The Minetta Lane revival of Martha Clarke’s GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, which almost didn’t open in the fall until last-minute funding came through (we wrote about it) is offering discount tickets to celebrate its finals days – closes April 5 after several extensions. Use code GOED25 to get $25 tickets – click here.

  • …and the Eagles don’t suck, either.

    The current mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, is making some smart decisions in his approach to arts policy in his city. For one, he re-opened the Office of Arts and Culture just after taking office (former mayor John Street – yeah, the guy whose team was so corrupt the FBI bugged his office – closed…