Month: March 2009

  • Culturebot Couture and more…

    okay i am going  out of town for a few days. will try and post. hopefully some of my Culturebot colleagues will pick up the slack. in the meantime, i suggest you take this opportunity to visit the new Culturebot Couture and Kitsch Cafe to satisfy all of your Culturebot outfitting needs*: *All proceeds go to…

  • Homeland Insecurity

    Just got a note from Ant Hampton about a very troubling development in the UK. Apparently they’ve caught a nasty case of Homeland Security-itis: The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies. Visitors now have to submit to a series of…

  • Haggadah Rocks.

    Okay. So long story short. Some of you saw my lecture at JTS (I will post the video soon) where I demonstrated how The Wooster Group’s Hamlet was more Jewish than The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre’s staging of Gimpel Tam. Trust me, it makes sense. Basically, the idea is that the Talmud (see picture below) is…

  • Five Questions for: Meiyin Wang

                        Name: Meiyin Wang Title/Occupation: Associate Producer  /  Director Organization/Company: Under The Radar Festival  / Quality Meats URL: www.qualitymeats.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Singapore where I had always thought I’d be a lawyer…

  • hrrrrrrothgar!!!!!

    last night i ran into jason craig from the banana bag & bodice.  in case you ain’t done bought your tickets yet for opening weekend there’s a 2 for 1 ticket deal  for opening weekend (April 1-5) if you buy before March 25th BUY YOUR TICKETS  HERE  and use the Code  “BAGGAGE”  for this deal ! Oh and here’s a video…

  • sound memory

      This looks like a good time: City/Dans: JULIAN BARNETT PROJECT Sound Memory March 19-21, 2009 • [Thu-Sat] at 8:30 PM Admission: $18.00 (members $12.00) Read Julian Barnett’s preview in the New York Times! Listen to Julian’s interview on Infinite Body! In a world that can be recorded, rewound, fast-forwarded and replayed, how do we experience the…

  • people without history

    am running out the door. saw the new richard maxwell show people without history last  night, i think rachel is going to see it and will write about it at greater length.  i liked it a lot.  it is surprising in its emotional delicacy and yet still. characters. talking trying to find. words. express. very.…

  • Five Questions for: Shoshana Polanco

    Name: Shoshana Polanco Title/Occupation: Creative Producer Organization/Company: Independent URL:  http://shoshanapolanco.googlepages.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and I moved to NYC almost 10 years ago for personal reasons. Now I live in NYC, but also spend a lot…

  • Dixon Place in April

    Here are some of the groovy events going on at Dixon Place this April: ARABY by Chris Rael Wednesdays-Saturdays, April 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17 & 18 @ 7:30pm $20, $15 Sundays, April 12 & 19 @ 3:00pm $15, $12  *April 16- Special Araby Event! Composer & Performer talk back with post performance reception $30 LITTLE THEATRE Monday, April 6, May…

  • Let It Die? Really?

    Rushkoff says, “Let It Die” about the economy.  I’m a longtime fan of Rushkoff’s, but a little dubious of the overall idea. One question I’ve been asking is why a corporation/bank can be seen as a discrete entity which is “too big to fail” but a much larger entity -the middle class – is not seen…

  • kriegsmann brings it to sarasota

    Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, FL from October  7 – 11, 2009  on a beautiful, 66-acre waterfront estate on Sarasota Bay.  Tommy Kriegsmann is the festival director and is bringing acts that us NYC folks know pretty well from PS122 and Spiegeltent: Meow Meow, ERS, Deganit Shemy &  Ella Hickson… also Aszure Barton, Peter Brook &…. we…

  • Pop Music Major at USC

    I’m running out the door to get to work but I wanted to blog this. Since posting my “Moderate Proposal” essay I’ve been hearing a lot of feedback, some of it contesting the idea that the lines are blurring between genres and high art/low art, etc. I am writing at length about this, if I…