Blindspot Opens Tonight in Philadelphia
Blindspot, a new, nine-night festival of experimental dance and music, opens tonight in Philadelphia.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Oni Dance Returns to the Joyce Soho
LA’s Oni Dance comes to the Joyce Soho March 11 & 12
Ursula Eagly’s “Group Dynamics and Visual Sensitivity” at Danspace Project
Choreographer Ursula Eagly combines dance and comic books in a way to make Julie Taymor (and her investors) green with envy
A Week of Playgoing: Target Margin, Witness Relocation & Nonsense Co.
Target Margin studies ESL and Witness Relocation surprises, while Nonsense Company could stand a fresh pair of eyes
New York Live Arts Introduces Itself With Bread, Circus & Not Much Else
New York Live Arts introduced itself to the dance community Saturday, but in a presentation short on details, big questions remain
An Interview With the Wooster Group’s Ari Fliakos
Ari Fliakos talks about how he became involved with the Wooster Group, playing Tennessee Williams’ alter-ego in “Vieux Carre,” and more
“Waiting for Godot,” the Video Game
The title pretty much sums it up.
Verdensteatret’s “And All the Question Marks Started to Sing” at DTW
Alyssa Alpine previews Verdensteatret at DTW.
Music For Merce CD Release Events at Roulette
The Music Committee of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) will present two concerts on Sunday March 20, 2011 at Roulette in Soho to celebrate the release of “Music for Merce,” a 10-CD boxed set from New World Records.
Trajal Harrell, Kyle Abraham and Half Straddle
This week we saw work by choreographers Trajal Harrell and Kyle Abraham and the theater company Half Straddle.
Slow-dancing the Poem: Body of Words @ Dixon Place
What was I thinking? CAD, BD, BAD, or CD*
10 Minutes With Wendell Cooper
For my second “10-minutes with the DTW Studio Series Artists” interview, I spoke with Wendell Cooper. He shows his work-in-process “Disembodied” tonight (Friday) and tomorrow at 6pm. I’m most familiar with him as a member of Nicholas Leichter Dance, but he is also a certified