Annie Dorsen on “Magical” at NYLA
The NY-based director discusses her collaboration with choreographer/dancer Anne Juren, part of PS 122’s 2013 COIL Festival
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Realness Roundup: Consent and Collision
A Sunday marathon at American Realness instigated thoughts about consent, the public sphere and collisions among artists. The refined schedule and pace of Ben Pryor’s festival feels welcomingly more spacious and navigable than last year. Spending the day with Jack Ferver, Maria Hassabi, Keith Hennessey’s
Mind Over Mirrors with Miguel Gutierrez
Music writer Marc Masters discusses the collaboration between musician and dance artist.
To Alastair, from Ben
A lightly edited open letter Ben Pryor wrote to Alastair MacAuley in response to an email exchange about American Realness
This Is America, Now (A Frame for APAP)
Dear European Friends in town for Under The Radar, Coil and American Realness, (& audiences who don’t live in our little contemporary performing arts world all the time) may I have your attention!? I just want to say: This is America, now. Debate Society, Pig
Other Forces 2013: James Moore Performs John Zorn’s “The Book of Heads” at Incubator Arts Project
Completing the triad of Incubator Arts Project’s Other Forces is multi-instrumentalist James Moore’s performance of The Book Of Heads, a series of 35 études for guitar written by downtown luminary John Zorn at the age of 25 (that’s 1978). As primarily a student of acting
Sunday Afternoon Report: The January Shit-Show Circus?
Oh good lord I’m tired. This January thing is killer, huh? I’m not even seeing shows today–it’s meetings and parties and interviews and so on. But it’s good. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how nicely Dixon Place has served as the COIL Festival hub, and
3 Questions on the Economy
Keith Hennessy asks 3 Questions on the Economy to AL Steiner and Mårten Spångberg.
AUNTS started in 2005
On the occasion of AUNTS in American Realness, Jmy James Kidd reflects on the beginning of AUNTS.
Anyone Else Disappointed by “Ganesh vs. the Third Reich”?
So I think I’m out of the mainstream on this, because Back to Back‘s Ganesh vs. the Third Reich is one of the buzziest shows at Under the Radar this year, and it’s been praised to high heaven everywhere it’s played, but honestly, I left
Maria Hassabi’s “Show” at American Realness
Maria Hassabi is, in my experience, a divisive artist: You sort of either love her work or you don’t, without a lot of middle ground. Seeing SHOW this afternoon, at Abrons where it’s part of American Realness (you have one more shot tomorrow to see
Mark Russell on Under the Radar 2013
The Director of the Public’s Under the Radar Festival discusses the 2013 Program