In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in person? The 4th in a series of essays about live events and small group experiences.
“There is no end to the work we begin here.”
Emily Johnson/Catalyst is an artist for the coming age. Big Dance Theater’s subversively brilliant, mmm… at this point in their careers perhaps brilliantly subversive makes more sense. Day 4 of the January Festival Feast, more COIL and American Realness.
La Mama dispatch for PS 122’s COIL Fest, Pavel Zustiak’s “Custodians of Beauty” and “Bastard (The Painted Bird: Part 1)” and Squirts intergenerational queer pairings with stand up sets from Patti Harrison and Marga Gomez. To start the year alternating between bent over from either despair or because I might laugh so hard that the tears trickle down my legs felt fitting to my polar emotional swings of late.
Frank Boyd is the sort of supremely talented performer whose craft is so refined it’s nearly invisible. For all I know, he might very well be a sweaty, smalltime jazz DJ who lives on a diet of coffee, peanuts and Charlie Parker in real life.
In the latest from the “autoteatro” auteur, Hampton delivers a stinging indictment of global capitalism that provides more symptoms than diagnosis
Chicago-spawned and now Brooklyn-based art duo Cupola Bobber (the collaboration of Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers) perform their latest project The Field, the Mantel this weekend, March 15-16, at Knockdown Center, a new space self-described as: an impressive anachronism: an expansive space on three acres in
Editor’s Note: Responses to given shows have a short shelf-life. This is a response to a show that we didn’t originally intend to publish a response to, in fact. Originally, I intended to write an article about it myself. In the end, I shelved the
French choreographer David Wampach‘s Sacre at the Invisible Dog Art Center (unrecognizable- its white gallery/warehouse vibe magically transformed into a black box theater) was a brief and powerful nugget inspired by Nijinsky’s controversial Rite of Spring. This performance was presented by the ‘Dog, PS122’s COIL
Cuqui Jerez’ “The Rehearsal” is a mind-bendingly good time.
Andy’s round-up of his week of shows.
Are you a boy, do you like to dance, are you fearless, do you want to perform at both the New Museum and Performance Space 122 in the same month? How do you feel about dancing with a dead goat? Be a part of this historic reconstruction, 25 years later.