Do you remember the giddy euphoria you felt the first time you dropped acid? No? Well, okay, fine. But Culturebot does. We remember that incredible feeling of limitless possibility and the sneaking suspicion that somehow, hidden within all this delirious chaos there was some ineffable,
You have one last weekend to catch DEMON BABY at the Ohio, and it’s worth the trip through the subarctic New York night–it’s a compelling piece of theater from Clubbed Thumb.
If you like your performance art rife with psychotropic drugs, LP records and lovely young ladies in scant lobster costumes, then you should have been at Chashama on January 20th and 21st, 2004 to see Dixon Place’s presentation of Five and Two (5mg Haldol +
Last night Culturebot went to the opening night of Michelle Matlock’s The Mammy Project at The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus’ Palace of Variety. It’s a very enjoyable and engaging show, exploring the history and persistence of the “Mammy” icon in American Culture.
Some of you may remember Radiohole from last season’s Postmodern Arctic Performance Spectacle None of It: More or Less Hudson’s Bay, Again at P.S. 122. Well, they’re at it again, cooking up an anarchic new theatrical invention called Radiohole Is Still My Name.
This cultural moment belongs to pirates. Pirates of the Carribbean and Peter Pan are just the latest signals of the ascendancy of piracy among the eternal goofy pantheon of robots, ninjas, and monkeys.
We’re still working on the “upcoming” section, but I thought I’d let everyone know what’s going on in January at P.S. 122 – House of No More and Instructions for Forgetting – the shows coincide with the semi-official launch of culturebot.org on January 8th. (cross
Culturebot admits that he has not always been a dance aficionado. In fact, until recently whenever I heard the word “dance” I ran screaming in the other direction. But the responsibilities of being a cultural man-about-downtown have brought me into proximity with quite a bit
Okay, so this isn’t a review. But we haven’t quite worked out how the “upcoming events” part is going to work. However, culturebot strongly recommends The Dresden Dolls.
Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater’s Intimacy In Transition opened at P.S. 122 on Thursday, December 11th. Elam, known for his whimsical, Balinese inspired choreography, has created an enchanting evening consisting of six different dances.
After another long day in the salt mines Culturebot headed out to the oh-so-trendy DUMBO for an evening of dance and diversion. The first stop was at The Nest to see a work entitled mech[a] and OUTPUT by koosil-ja, a Japanese dancer/choreographer of Korean descent.
A few weeks ago I met an Italian-American woman who had worked for an Armenian charitable organization. She told me how it had been really hard, as a non-Armenian, to do her job, since it was such a tight-knit community. And then just last weekend