Month: May 2010

  • Laurie Anderson to open BAM Next Wave 2010

    Just got the season release for BAM Next Wave 2010 and it looks really great. Pioneering performance artist Laurie Anderson opens the 2010 BAM Next Wave Festival with Delusion, a far-reaching work exploring memory and identity. Delusion received its world premiere at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and now makes its anticipated New York premiere at…

  • Black Brooklyn Renaissance

    On June 5th, the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza will host the Black Brooklyn Drum Call, which opens the summer season of the yearlong initiative Black Brooklyn Renaissance. BLACK BROOKLYN RENAISSANCE is a holistic look at Black culture and arts in Brooklyn over the past five decades. The project explores the ways in which…

  • Orlando's Mobile Art Show

    Who knew there was so much going on in Orlando, FL? Have been reading Orlando’s arts and culture blog DAILY CITY which has been doing this very cool Mobile Art Show project. Mark Baratelli, the editor of Daily City, had been in NYC (of course!) and noticed the mobile food vendor trend and decided to…

  • Have you kicked a building lately?

    HAVE YOU KICKED A BUILDING LATELY? A Panel Discussion About Architecture and Performance Presented by Performa’s Not For Sale Series Featuring Vito Acconci, Elizabeth Berger, Beatriz Colomina, and Teddy Cruz, with Respondents Glenn Weiss, Alexander Pincus, and Peter Zuspan Introduced and Moderated by RoseLee Goldberg Wednesday, May 26 at 6 pm (Doors open at 5:30 pm)…

  • Something Else Gets Made at CPR

    CPR‘s New Voices in Live Performance series presents “Something Else Gets Made” from May 26th – 28th, 2010, curated by Donna Faye Burchfield, director of the dance program at Hollins University. The series starts on May 26th at 8PM with a lecture and discussion on art and public policy with Randy Martin, the chair of NYU’s…

  • Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

    Flavorpill has posted “69 Things You Didn’t Know About Bob Dylan“. I actually knew most of them. I’m a huge Dylan fan. In fact when Culturebot was just a wee lad, knee-high to a grasshopper, his first solo show was a bio of Bob. Somewhere there’s a crusty VHS tape of me with a big…

  • Eiko & Koma | Retrospective Project I: Regeneration

    Eiko & Koma Retrospective Project I: Regeneration Presented by Danspace Project in association with Asia Society May 27-29, 2010 · [Thu-Sat] · 8:00 PM Admission: $18 ($12 for members) Veteran dance-makers Eiko & Koma’s ground-breaking three-year Retrospective Project will be presented at Danspace Project as Retrospective Project I: Regeneration. Using their past works and their…

  • Indigenous Culture and Contemporary Performance

    Spiderwoman Theater and Loose Change Productions invite you to: Indigenous Culture and Contemporary Performance: A round table discussion moderated by Louis Mofsie, Director of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. Participants include Diane Fraher of AMERINDA; Danielle Soames of Mixed Phoenix Theatre; Joe Cross of Leaf Arrow Theater; Muriel Miguel, Lisa Mayo, and Gloria Miguel, founding…

  • Superhero Clubhouse's MERCURY at Flux Factory

    Sunday night took us to the Flux Factory in LIC for Superhero Clubhouse‘s production MERCURY.  Flux Factory is an artists’ collective with a raw industrial space that they use for public performances. It is a quick trip on the N/W train to the 39th Ave. stop, and then a few blocks walk from there. Superhero…

  • Love & Dance: Nora Petroliunas / The Pharmacy Project present Bricks & Honey at 100 Grand, May 7 & 8

    The audience has just been moved. Literally.  The handsome couple, who have perched so exquisitely atop the coffee table placed against the mirror at the west wall of 100 Grand, find themselves momentarily separated when the musical chairs-like redistribution of spectators-in-the-round calls for us to claim new seats. But across the gap now between them,…

  • The Debate Society at the Ontological

    Saturday night took us to the Ontological to go see The Debate Society‘s BUDDY COP 2. This is the third play in TDS’s Americana Trilogy, following The Eaten Heart and Cape Disappointment.  In this one, Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen play Darlene Novak and Terry Olsen, two police officers the small Indiana town of Shandon.…

  • Fitzgerald and Stapleton at the Chocolate Factory

    Friday night took us to Long Island City to check out Fitzgerald and Stapleton‘s The Work The Work. Let’s just start with the naked – F&S (Emma Fitzgerald and Aine Stapleton) perform naked as a way of “subverting the conventions of nudity and eroticism which otherwise plague presentations of the naked female form.” Not necessarily a…