Monthly Archives: April 2009

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Guggenheim Fellows Announced!

Another crop of Guggenheim fellows has just been announced, in an enormous range of areas. Ralph Lemon got one, and Suzanne Carbonneau. The list was in yesterday’s Times, and can be found HERE…..congratulate your colleagues.

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Five Questions for Alec Duffy

Name: Alec Duffy Title/Occupation: Artistic Director Organization/Company: Hoi Polloi URL: www.hoipolloiworld.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. My family moved out to Apple Valley, Minnesota

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double-dipping: a review

here, for those of you who don’t regularly visit the orange boxes with the green stripes in which Metro appears five days a week, is today’s review: Passion behind the headlines Loving in the face of hate Elizabeth Zimmer Top-notch theatrical talents collaborate to make

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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Distant early warning: Coming to the Public Theater, opening May 5, is A PUBLIC LAB Production Written and Directed by Alex Timbers Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman A Collaboration Between Center Theatre Group And The Public Theater in Association With Les Freres Corbusier –a

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Komm’N’act presents Rencontres //02

The new Komm’n’act Festival, Rencontres //02, initiated by Lou Colombani, starts next week in Marseille. It aims at providing a platform for young European artists in performing art. From their website : Is it possible to create something which is common without the other person

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drowning in performance

in the past two weeks I’ve seen about 15 performances, some of them 3.5 hours long. Keeping track of what’s coming up while Andy’s gone is going to be a bear, but I hope to catch up with this Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, I just came

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DATA AS A CREATIVE VISUAL MEDIUM

DATA AS A CREATIVE VISUAL MEDIUM Jeff Thompson, Moderator Panelists: Louisa Armbrust, Tali Hinkis, Siebren Versteeg and Ben Rubin FRIDAY APRIL 17, 2009, 7PM, FREE HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER 596 Broadway #602 New York City (at Houston St) Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R

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Pâquerette – cult performance or mere anecdote ?

When the audience gets in the bare bright-lit rehearsal room at Le Merlan, a very legit performance venue in Marseille, Cecilia Bengolea (Argentina) et François Chaignaud (France) are sitting on the floor, leaning on one hand towards one another, wrapped in gold-thread tunics. They whisper

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John Jesurun’s RED HOUSE at Experimental Theatre Wing

Longtime downtown artist John Jesurun presents a re-staged production of RED HOUSE. First presented at La MaMa in 1984, it now features a cast all (gulp) born after 1984. NYU/TSOA/DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE WING PRESENTS RED HOUSE WRITTEN,DIRECTED, DESIGNED BY JOHN JESURUN APRIL-14-18 WITH:

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EU Editor

Bonjour bonjour, chers lecteurs de culturebot. Claire Hallereau, here, live from Marseille, and delighted to be joining the culturebo(a)t crew. After 10 years in New York, 7 of which were spent working with Marianne Weems and the Builders, I have passed on the flambeau to mi