Month: July 2012
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Complicite’s “Master and Margarita” at the Festival d’Avignon
“There is a kind of fascism in art like this which gives no agency to the viewer and leaves no space for interpretation. It’s a dictatorship of image and imagination. Unwittingly, McBurney has created a piece that in its form does the thing its content is fighting against.”
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Jérôme Bel/Theater HORA’s “Disabled Theater” at Festival d’Avignon
Working with a professional theater company of actors with mental disabilities, French choreographer Jérôme Bel challenges audiences
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Mac Wellman’s Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Fest Returns
The director of Brooklyn College’s experimental playwriting program presents his seventh annual festival of emerging playwrights this August
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Romeo Castellucci’s “Four Seasons Restaurant” at the Festival d’Avignon
Our first report from Avignon, on the Italian theatrical provocateur’s latest, an exploration of potential and pregnant emptiness
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Culturebot Says: Don’t Miss MATERIAL WORLD!
Last Friday night I saw Dan Fishback’s THE MATERIAL WORLD, directed by Stephen Brackett at Dixon Place and it is quite possibly the best new musical I have seen come from downtown in a decade, maybe longer. It has been extended so you have no excuse for missing it.
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Talk to Paulie on BBOX Radio
You may know Paul Lazar as co-founder of Big Dance Theater or as an actor in theater, movies, T.V. Now, thanks to BBOX, he is a major radio personality.
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Season Preview: FIAF’s Crossing the Line (with Bastille Day Notes)
DD Dorvillier, Brian Rogers, Faustin Linyekula, and David Levine join us for the 2012 Crossing the Line Festival, this September
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Hoi Polloi Debuts Its New Space JACK With Bertolt Brecht’s “Baal”
Alec Duffy & co. tackle Bertolt Brecht’s juvenilia in their first show at their recently opened Clinton Hill art space
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Bruce High Quality Foundation’s “Art History With Labor”
The subversive arts collective appropriates the frame of Luther’s 95 Theses in a video on art workers, art-making, and class
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Finnish Accordion Wrestling. Seriously. Awesome.
How can this not be awesome!?! Finnish Accordion Wrestling comes to Lincoln Center Out Of Doors August 3 & 4 @ 8:30PM. Yes!!!
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Elastic City presents Pocket Virtuosity
Traverse the depths of everyday movement with Michelle Boule, courtesy of Elastic City.