Category: CultureBytes
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Culturebot Scanner: April 11-25
Another installment of the Culturebot Scanner to help put performance on your radar.
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Highway 47 Revisited at HERE Arts Center
KJ Sanchez explores land, community and identity in her new solo Highway 47
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Forest Fringe comes to Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX
Fusebox Festival blogger Shannon McCormick reporting from Austin, TX. For the past nine years, Austin’s Fusebox Festival has sought to bring a sense of local, national, and international community and dialogue to the often isolated and far-flung practioners of new work, or experimental performance, or hybrid media, or whatever you want to call this thing–this…
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Get Ready For Austin’s 9th Annual Fusebox Festival this April 17-28, 2013
Culturebot contributor Tim Braun reporting from Austin, TX. The city of Austin has a festival almost every week now. South by Southwest, Austin City Limits, The Moontower Comedy Festival, Austin Comic Con and The Texas Book Festival are among the most popular. The city even celebrates Eeyore’s birthday, the glum sidekick of Winnie the Pooh,…
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Culturebot Scanner: Putting Performance On Your Radar (March 22-29)
Any given day in NYC brings hundreds of choices of things to do and Culturebot Scanner is here to help put the good stuff on your radar. Here are some events to check out over the next two weeks: FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Choreographer Levi Gonzalez will present more, a (mostly) solo dance work, at new Clinton Hill art space…
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The Movement Revisited: 651 Arts and Universes set it off with The Black Panthers and Young Lords
With the Occupy Movement arising in the wake of the financial crisis, finally calling attention to income disparity and economic inequality, we’ve become familiar with the idea of the 99% vs. the 1%. Every day we see a new video on the Internet, a new article, a new graphic, that shows clearly how things are…
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Cupola Bobber at The Knockdown Center March 15-16
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 Queens but near Bushwick, where eclectic pursuits will converge to…
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No Theater presents Richard Maxwell’s CAVEMAN starting March 14th
This week and next, March (14-17 and 21-24) the Massachusetts-based No Theater return to New York City to perform Richard Maxwell’s Caveman at The Performing Garage ~ 33 Wooster Street Tickets » You may have seen some of No Theater’s prior work. Most recently they brought END OF THE ROAD, a performance conceived, designed and…
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Culturebot Scanner – Cool Stuff To Do and more….
Here are some awesome events coming up in the next few weeks, starting with a showing TONIGHT! Mark your calendars and check out these performances/symposiums/opportunities: Mårten Spångberg Workshop Presentation Saturday, March 2 (Tonight!), 6pm Choreographer Mårten Spångberg presents a dance for three women, The Nature, on Saturday, March 2, 6pm, Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway. Performers are…
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Tele-Violet’s “Lady Han” at Incubator Arts Project
Tele-Violet’s Lady Han, which refracts the 15th century Noh drama through the goggles of an Americana fever dream, premiered at Incubator Arts Project this month. The emerging NYC theater company, led by stage director Katherine Brook, uses the classical Japanese text, Zeami in Royall Tyler’s translation, as a structure of longing for a different kind of New York theater and an armature…