Month: March 2010

  • Five Questions With The Octopus Project

    Name: The Octopus Project Title/Occupation: Band (…a sort of Tim Burton block party is unfolding) Organization/Company: Peek-a-Boo Records URL: http://www.theoctopusproject.com Note: Questions were primarily answered by Josh Lambert. 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? We all grew up in different parts of Texas (Josh –…

  • Diary of A Teenage Girl at 3LD

    Friday night Culturebot went down to 3LD to check out The Diary of A Teenage Girl, Marielle Heller’s adapation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel of the same name. This impressive production, directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Rachel Eckerling, does a great job of capturing the intensity and insanity of being a teenager out of…

  • Intersections with Performance and Art

    Gavin Kroeber (Creative Time) leads a panel featuring artists Sharon Hayes and Alix Pearlstein, the Radiohole ensemble, and curatorNancy Spector, exploring the porous lines of affinity and bias that connect and separate performance art and the performing arts. To what degree are the burgeoning opportunities enjoyed by performance in the visual arts sphere the result of intentional disciplinary…

  • 101010 UpStage Festival – call for proposals

    The fourth UpStage festival of cyberformance (live online performance) will be held on 101010 (10 October 2010). The call is now open for performance proposals. The 101010 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. The festival provides a platform (and shares the technichal expertise)…

  • EdLab Digital Art Residency Now accepting applications

    The EdLab Digital Art Residency (EDAR) 2010, supported by Gottesman Libraries (Teachers College, Columbia University), aims to explore the intersections between technology, data, art, and media. EDAR awards selected artists $2,500 to complete their proposed data visualization projects, leading to possible public outcomes including seminars, public discussion and online publication. Additional funding may be available…

  • EmcArts announces new rounds of Innovation Lab

    In 2010, EmcArts, the leading nonprofit provider of innovation services to the arts sector, will further advance its pioneering Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, an immersion program for arts organizations, thanks to a generous $1.6 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). EmcArts is pleased to partner with DDCF to deliver three more…

  • Nicholas Leichter/Monstah Black for DanceNOW(NYC) at Joe's Pub

    Nick Leichter and Monstah Black brought it Home – as in there’s no place like it – in DanceNOW’s most recent full-length modern dance musical, The Whiz.  From the moment Monstah begins his R&B crooning in full-blown afro wig, complete with hair pick, a soulful tone is set and we know we’re getting the goods…

  • A Quintessential Postmortem on SXSW 2010

    The quintessential South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) happening came at the tail end of the festivities on Saturday, March 20th when Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosted and curated an evening of music, film and live performance at the G-Tech Theater located at the Austin Convention Center for hitRecord.org. The music, film and interactive event featured live performances…

  • post-dramatic odds and ends

    Just got home from Hans Thies Lehmann‘s lecture on Post-Dramatic Theatre. Fascinating stuff. I’m not smart enough to recreate it here. But I’m going to a workshop on it tomorrow, so hopefully I’ll get smarter in the interim. Or you can just read the book, I’ll do the same and we can grab coffee and…

  • Sunday at Glasslands – The Golden Sound Camp Meeting

    Sunday, March 28 // 7:45pm // $20 Suggested Donation The Golden Sound Camp Meeting A Benefit for the upcoming production: Get Mad at Sin! Featuring performances by: Rachel Shukert 10:35 // Brendan Connelly 10:15 // Paul Lazar 9:55 // Chase Granoff 9:35 // Heather Christian and the Arbonauts 8:55 // Andy Horwitz 8:30 // Matt Citron 8:15 at Glasslands 289…

  • Performance at Barbes this Sunday

    The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco theater | performance | entertainments second installment SUNDAY, MARCH 28th BARBES 376 9th Street | Brooklyn 7 PM | $7 suggested donation This Month: Plays & Players from Brooklyn, Tokyo, & Queens belletristic theatracaleur KARINNE KEITHLEY abdominal wordthreat BENJAMIN GASSMAN & tired pianist YOU NAKAI HOPE. CHANGE. BLAH.…

  • Yasuko Yokoshi at DTW

    Yasuko Yokoshi’s work has long been engaged in questions around cultural authenticity and identity – as impacted in a mobile and fluid world where the merging of cultures is increasingly prevalent.  As an artist she has been called both “unruly” and “enigmatic,” revealing the thorny process of assessing her cultural bonds.  Her exquisite 2006 what…