Author: Lydia Mokdessi
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Gwen Welliver’s “Beasts and Plots” at NYLA
Lydia Mokdessi on Gwen Welliver’s Beasts and Plots.
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Culturebot Scanner: April 24-May 8
Newest installment of Culturebot Scanner to get the word out about what we’re excited to see over the next two weeks.
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TALKING WITH ANNA SPERBER ABOUT “THE SUPERSEDED THIRD” AT THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Lydia Mokdessi talks with dancer/choreographer Anna Sperber, who presents “The Superseded Third” at The Chocolate Factory Theater this week.
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Culturebot Scanner: April 11-25
Another installment of the Culturebot Scanner to help put performance on your radar.
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Culturebot Scanner: Putting Performance On Your Radar (March 22-29)
Any given day in NYC brings hundreds of choices of things to do and Culturebot Scanner is here to help put the good stuff on your radar. Here are some events to check out over the next two weeks: FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Choreographer Levi Gonzalez will present more, a (mostly) solo dance work, at new Clinton Hill art space…
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Talking to Rashaun Mitchell about “Interface” at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Lydia Mokdessi talks to Rashaun Mitchell about his new show “Interface” at The Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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Culturebot Scanner – Cool Stuff To Do and more….
Here are some awesome events coming up in the next few weeks, starting with a showing TONIGHT! Mark your calendars and check out these performances/symposiums/opportunities: Mårten Spångberg Workshop Presentation Saturday, March 2 (Tonight!), 6pm Choreographer Mårten Spångberg presents a dance for three women, The Nature, on Saturday, March 2, 6pm, Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway. Performers are…
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Aretha Aoki’s “Las Gravitas” at Danspace Project
Aretha Aoki’s Las Gravitas, a solo about making a solo, ran last weekend at Danspace Project, in a shared evening with Benjamin Kimitch who presented a duet between Julie McMillan and Claire Westby titled discontinuous sounds (his debut evening-length work).
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Douglas Dunn’s “Cassations” at Danspace Project
Douglas Dunn’s Cassations, which ran last weekend at Danspace Project, opens with seven multi-colored flower sculptures scattered throughout St. Mark’s sanctuary, which are carried offstage by dancers in yellow ponchos while opening announcements are made. Onto the empty stage arrive Dunn’s twelve dancers, divided by gender and dressed in clashing neon athletic separates, one man…
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Arturo Vidich’s “The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas” Presented by NYLA at the Invisible Dog
Arturo Vidich’s performance piece The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas is memorable, if unpleasant. It begins with Arturo seated in the center of The Invisible Dog, on a crude one-legged stool that is affixed to his hips. We are instructed to remove our shoes and move about the space, which is filled with “automatons”: a…
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Adrienne Truscott’s “…Too Freedom…” at The Kitchen
Culturebot’s Lydia Mokdessi responds to Adrienne Truscott’s “…too freedom…” at The Kitchen.
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Deborah Hay’s “As Holy Sites Go” at Danspace Project
The iconic choreographer continues her exploration of the solo as part of Platform12: Judson Now