Sports and Art are often described as having an antagonistic relationship. Fans of one supposedly hate aficionados of the other and vice-versa, but is that really so? Heading to a Mets game after work from my non-profit arts job, I raised more than a few eyebrows, probably the same number that my [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Go Team
Posted in reviews and responses on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Performance, once removed
Posted in theory on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cool Op-ed article in the NY Times today. It goes along with Sarah’s chorus idea that the arts more moving when the audience can feel they are participating– not necessarily as a put-on-the-spot individual*, nor in a forced structure**, but as a spontaneous individual part of a whole.
*Anyone who knows me knows the hyperventilations and [...]
Can I get a witness?
Posted in reviews and responses on October 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last week I went to see Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera. Despite my college minor in voice, (which included several classes in Italian diction) I’ve never been much of an opera buff. Still, the controversial Peter Gelb has done much to put the cool back (is it really back, or completely [...]
Whatever it is I think I see…
Posted in practice and process on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of years ago, I took Dance Theater Workshop’s Writing on Dance Class taught by Wendy Perron. As an exercise, we were asked to sit still somewhere and write our observations of the movements around us in the place we had chosen. I recently came across the bit I wrote while sitting [...]
I’m gonna THROW this out there.
Posted in theory on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I curate a works-in-progress series at the Chocolate Factory Theater called THROW. While there are other series in NYC which focus on works-in-progress, (Draftwork and Danspace Project, Movement Research’s Open Performane and Judson Church series, The Field’s Fieldwork program, and supposedly everything at Dixon Place), nearly all of them have been transformed (by those [...]
Try to Remember…
Posted in theory on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Performance by definition is temporal. Practitioners and critics alike frequently bemoan its fleeting, even fragile nature. While it can be frustrating to stand with nothing but memory and nostalgia after closing night, our current performance-making/performance-critiquing culture has developed an attitude much more dangerous – one that renders performance not only temporal, but disposable.
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