“You can go to any number of dance panels where this comes up—about context and why artists are able to support themselves and dancers aren’t,” said RoseLee Goldberg, the author of a history of performance art and director of the performance art biennial Performa. “They don’t
WHEN: April 21- May 1, 2010 WHERE: 10+ venues throughout Austin, TX COST: $130 Passes WEB: www.fuseboxfestival.com “There will probably be a few more additions of note, but this is about 80%.” -Ron Berry, Founder and Artistic Director of Fusebox Festival At the end of
I must be getting old because I had it on my calendar and completely missed it. Claudia La Rocco has a great write-up on Earl Dax’s Pussy Faggot performance party over on the WNYC Blog. And here’s some video of Jeremy Wade performing:
Was just checking out videos on HERE’s YouTube Channel – lots of interesting stuff. There annual Culturemart festival just started and it is a great chance to see some really cool work. Check out the line-up here. And here’s a promo video for their multimedia
She’s back! The first lady of performance art, Karen Finley, brings her new show THE JACKIE LOOK to the Laurie Beechman Theater January 30 – March 6, 2010. For those of you who have never experienced Ms. Finley, you should check out this one-woman tsunami
“The Performa biennial is the most visible feature of a museum without walls,” writes RoseLee Goldberg in the introduction to her new book, EVERYWHERE AND ALL AT ONCE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS ON PERFORMA 07 (JRP|Ringier; January 2010; $45/Paperback). “For three weeks, every other year,
Japan Society Artistic Director Yoko Shioya saw Butoh in Jeremy Wade’s Bessie award-winning duet Glory and, though this was not in his movement background, sent him to Tokyo for research and then brought his work there is no end to more (sight unseen) for its
After a compelling opening scene in which the powerful Michelle Boulé delivers a grieving and unintelligible monologue into a microphone while slumped over in a chair and dressed in a James Dean blonde wig, blue jeans, white t-shirt and red jacket, the 90-minute Last Meadow
First: Andy just wrote this but I’m going to post it again and pretend I said all of these things myself: It is one thing to review shows, it is quite another to follow the work of an artist over time…worthwhile artists deserve multiple visits,
One of the only FREE events in Under The Radar is MK Guth’s This Fable Is Intended For You: A Work-Energy Principle co-presented by arts>World Financial Center. Guth will transform giant cords fashioned from New Yorkers’ donated clothing into geometric shapes inspired by the spectacular
Name: Corey Dargel Title/Occupation: composer & singer/songwriter URL: http://automaticheartbreak.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley. It took me a few years to realize
The Austin City Limits are growing, and I’m not just writing of the festival. This week the Wall Street Journal placed Austin as the fifth coolest town for young folk to like in the United States, right behind our sister city Portland (OR), Seattle, New