There is a visually stunning and not very well publicized production at La Mama that will be running through September 28. Atomic City is a clever composit of dance, theater and live music that takes spectators into the lives of two neighboring families whose troubled
Ivana Müller’s While We Were Holding It Together is a very still dance piece currently showing at FIAF (French Institute Alliance Française). In this work, the Croatian born choreographer has brought together a cast of five performers whose central task for the piece is to
Photo by Paula Court, On entering The Kitchen this Saturday, I was curious to see how Radiohole had dealt with Chelsea’s sizable performance space for the staging of ANGER/NATION, their latest production. The company usually performs at the Collapsable Hole, a theater made from two
A red velvet curtain slowly opens…to reveal a dark hanging curtain. After a few moments, this layer peels off as well, onto a screen of faux leopard skin. The audience laughs. We are so close to the stage and the small theater makes me hungry
From my friend Travis Just, of Object Collection, an experimental music and theater group based in Brooklyn. Object Collection is doing a performance of music by Jennifer Walshe (New York / Dublin) this Wednesday — tomorrow! — at the Issue Project Room in our fair
Photo by Paula Court. A ten-by-ten-foot cube in the middle of a dark room acts as the stage for Reid Farrington’s The Passion Project, a half hour long installation which will run through September 20 at PS122. The cube is defined by hanging ropes (these
Hello all! First of all, my apologies to Andy who seems to have really missed his writers. I was gone from New York and from the country, with often limited internet access and even more limited access to theater, dance and music events. In any
My friend Travis Just is part of Object Collection, a collaborative theater-music performance group. I met him while working as a production intern at the Ontological Hysteric, where Travis works on sound together with Richard Foreman. This is Object Collection’s latest project and it sounds
I say, with love in my heart, that the Figment participatory art festival on Governor’s Island was a messy thing. The woman at the information desk refused to give out maps and was obviously upset that a number of the musicians hadn’t shown up–possibly because
For those of you who like to buy subscription tickets, the next Next Wave ones are available. Nick Cave does music for a production of Woyzek. Among other delicious things.
Today is the last day of the New Haven-based annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas. The day’s events includes a walking tour and a bike tour, and the festival finale—a dance performance by Liz Lehrman titled “613 Radical Acts of Prayer.” Anyone can participate;
photo: Mike Hipple The second company invited by the Incubator curators to perform at the Ontological Hysteric Theater was Helsinki Syndrome, a performance art collective based in Seattle. I went to their last performance this past Saturday and found light plastic blankets awaiting the audience