In Performance: Fischerspooner (NYC)
Performance 6: Fischerspooner November 1, 2009–November 1, 2009 The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor Part of the Performance Exhibition Series In conjunction with the New York performance biennial Performa 09, MoMA’s Performance Exhibition Series presents Between Worlds (2009), an evening-length work by New York artists Fischerspooner. Between Worlds, a pop spectacle...
Featured: The Light Surgeons (London, England)
The Light Surgeons (London, England) The Light Surgeons operates as a multi media production company from a base in east London, producing a wide variety of creative projects from the commercial to artist lead. Their work spans many diverse mediums; print, photography, motion graphics, short films, exhibitions and installations. Over the past ten years they...
Featured: Hotel Modern (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Hotel Modern (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Hotel Modern was established in 1997. Its members are Arlène Hoornweg and Pauline Kalker, who both graduated from Arnhem Theatre School, and visual artist, model maker and performer, Herman Helle. The group works together with (sound) artists for their performances, including Arthur Sauer (The Great War, Rococo, Shrimp Tales) and Ruud...
Emerging: Daniel Linehan’s (New York/Brussels) Not About Everything
NOT ABOUT EVERYTHING Encircled by books and magazines, a lone body, as if placed at the centre of the world, begins to rotate. First slowly, then gradually metamorphozing into an insane whirling movement. The body begins to speak, repentantly: “This is not about everything, This is not about everything.” Daniel Linehan (Choreography and Performance), worked...
Digest: News for the week of September 6-13, 2009
Below is the weekly digest for the week of September 6-13, 2009. Books: The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio September 11th, 2009 Featured: Hotel Pro Forma (Copenhagen, Denmark) September 10th, 2009 In Performance: Is You Me at deSingel (Antwerp, Belgium) September 9th, 2009 Featured: Christian Rizzo/Association Fragile (Paris, France) September 8th, 2009 Featured: Volksbühne and...
Books: The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio chronicles four years in the life of an extraordinary Italian theatre company whose work is widely recognized as some of the most exciting theatre currently being made in Europe. In the first English-language book to document their work, company founders, Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci and Chiara Guidi, discuss their...
Featured: Hotel Pro Forma (Copenhagen, Denmark)
ABOUT HOTEL PRO FORMA Hotel Pro Forma displaces the notion of theatre into new territories that lie between art and non-art, theatre and non-theatre, between the physical and the metaphysical expression. Performances occupy a space between construction and sensation, consciousness and intuition, concrete and abstract. Hotel Pro Forma moves across the genres of theatre, opera,...
In Performance: Is You Me at deSingel (Antwerp, Belgium)
Is You Me deSingel (Antwerp, Belgium) Wed17 Mar 2010 20:00 Thu18 Mar 2010 20:00 Fri19 Mar 2010 20:00 You probably know Louise Lecavalier as a star dancer in La La La Human Steps. Her quick pirouettes and acrobatic dives are legendary, and her slim, androgynous appearance is always fascinating. She is an icon, a fifty-year-old...
Featured: Christian Rizzo/Association Fragile (Paris, France)
Christian Rizzo Christian Rizzo’s artistic career began in Toulouse, where he started a rock band and designed a line of clothing, after which he studied fine arts at the Villa dArson in Nice, then unexpectedly branched out into dance. In the 90s he performed with a number of contemporary choreographers including Mathilde Monnier, Herve Robbe,...
Featured: Volksbühne and Frank Castorf (Berlin, Germany)
VOLKSBÜHNE AM ROSA-LUXEMBURG-PLATZ A Theatre of the People The Volksbühne in the centre of Berlin is one of the leading and most innovative theatres of both Berlin and Germany. It was established in 1914 as a result of a grassroots people’s movement. Erwin Piscator, in the 1920s, and Benno Besson, in the 1970s, had a...
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Weekly digest for 2009-09-06
Thank you for the mention, George Hunka. http://bit.ly/L7kG9#criticism_20090823 # RT @Performa09: Performa in NYMag’s Fall Preview “back, bigger than ever…UNMISSABLE.” http://tinyurl.com/lnad88 # RT @performaddict: Richard Foreman play announced: Idiot Savant with Willem Dafoe @ and with Public Theatre. http://tiny.cc/NM1OF # Danspace Announces Fall 2009 – Highlights – Raimund Hoghe & Trajal Harrell http://www.danspaceproject.org/performance/upcoming.html # Full...
