Monthly Archives: May 2010

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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

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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

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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!)

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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