EMERGING! Help Enrico D. Wey with Fresh Tracks (NYC)
From Enrico D. Wey: “I am auditioning for Fresh Tracks in October. I would potentially like to swarm the stage at one point, en masse, and am looking to see how many of you lovely people and any you might want to forward this on to, would like to help me out and partake in...
In Performance: She She Pop at Forum Freies Theatre (Dusseldorf, Germany)
The FFT Düsseldorf celebrates its 10th anniversary with a She She Pop gala performance: DREAM FACTORY A Staged installation On 9 and 10 September 2009 FFT , Jahnstr. 3, 40215 Dusseldorf Ticket hotline and information: 0211 / 87 67 87 18 www.forum-free-theater.de Its been 10 years since the FFT Düsseldorf forged their factory and dreamt of...
Deufert + Plischke “in Quotes”
Our actual proceeding is rather like throwing sheets into the wind in any direction with the hope one hits a ghost. A ghost that haunts in the middle of us. Only a resonance in between, like a constant movement that neither represents nor mirrors relations of power and their rules and regulations of the body,...
The Kitchen (NYC) Fall Season HIGHLIGHTS
Big Dance Theater: Comme Toujours Here I Stand Thursday‹Saturday, October 1‹4, 8:00 P.M. Wednesday‹Saturday, October 7‹10, 8:00 P.M. Tickets: $15 Big Dance Theater’s new work, Comme Toujours Here I Stand, re-invents Agnès Varda’s classic New Wave film, Cléo From 5 to 7, as a piece of theater. Shot in Paris in 1961, the original film...
Highlights: Crossing The Line 2009 (NYC/France)
Crossing the Line 2009 matsune & subal store Wednesday, September 30, 2009, from 6–9pm Thursday–Saturday, October 1–3, 2009, from 12–3pm and 4–7pm Luxe Gallery Four days only! More than 60 amazing and astonishing products to choose from! Priced to sell! No budget too small! With both ingenuity and humor, store questions the consumption of art and...
EMERGING: Ben Evans futureLOVER at Chez Bushwick
CAKE at Chez Bushwick: Ben Evans futureLOVER Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:30pm – 8:30pm Chez Bushwick 304 Boerum St., Buzzer #11 Brooklyn, NYC futureLOVER is a performance about the exploration of a modern man : fragile, vulgar, nostalgic. It is a dance of objects and memory, confession and solitude…events in search of masculine codes that...
In Performance: 2010 Gisèle Vienne New Work
CREATION 2010 (TITLE IN PROGRESS) Conception, direction, choregraphy & scenography Gisèle Vienne Musical Direction Stephen O’Malley with 10 musicians Text Dennis Cooper Lights Patrick Riou Video Shiro Takatani Performed by and created in collaboration with Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir, Jonathan Capdevielle et Jonathan Schatz Executive producer : DACM Coproduction (in progress) : Le Quartz – Scène nationale de...
Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company Touring >The Shipment<
Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company The Shipment Touring Dates 2009/2010. Zurich Theater Spektakel, Switzerland August 28 – 30, 2009 www.theaterspektakel.ch PICA TBA Festival, Portland Sept 4 – 7, 2009 www.pica.org Rotterdam Seschouwburg, The Netherlands September 12 – 14, 2009 www.rotterdamseschouwburg.nl On the Boards, Seattle October 1 – 4, 2009 www.ontheboards.org Festival d’Automne à Paris, Paris...
Touring: Meg Stuart’s 2009 ›Do Animals Cry‹
In her new work ›Do Animals Cry‹, American choreographer Meg Stuart explores the complexities of family relationships. This is how it starts: people in pyjamas and slippers are panting. A family – is it really a family? – quietly gone sour. They fool around in variable poses: father, mother or sibling. They are called Frank...
In Performance: Gisèle Vienne + Dennis Cooper 2008 Production of JERK
A description of the 2008 production of Jerk by Dennis Cooper and directed by the French Artist, Gisèle Vienne. Jerk” is an imaginary reconstruction – strange, poetic, funny and somber – of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than...
Lost Notebook Defines Contemporary Performance
“Contemporary performance is hybrid work that integrates text, dance, objects, music, costumes, lighting, image, sound, sets, and vocal expression into complex interactive systems. Contemporary performance names a body of work that builds on an aesthetic history beginning in the 1880s with Alfred Jarry and early Dada experiments and unfolds through into the American avant-garde and...
Jason Farman’s Article, “Surveillance Spectacles” in Contemporary Theatre Review
Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Performance Read the PDF
