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Monthly archive September, 2009

Emerging: Present Attempt’s (UK) NETWORKS 1.0

NETWORKS 1.0 For the performance, Networks 1.0, Present Attempt went on a 24 hour journey that started and finished in London and attempted to connect all the people in the world! They traveled around the country as they met and made friends with people along the way, physically traversing people’s social networks in order to...
Rodrigo García: Versus

Highlights: Festival d’Automne a Paris

Heiner Goebbels I Went To The House But Did Not Enter Three tableaux based on four texts by T.S. Eliot, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett challenge the very principles of narration. Heiner Goebbels has set them to music and in space, offering them scope. “Narrative?  No.  No narrative. Never again.” [Maurice Blanchot] Tailor-made...

Highlights: CPR- Center for Performance Research Fall 2009 (NYC)

DANCE / MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE / INTERNET Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #2 – www.google.com Ursula Endlicher Saturday, October 3 -8pm -$10 With google.com Ursula Endlicher closes her ten-part circle of “Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited”. This live performance series, which utilizes Web Code as choreography, will include dancers, performers, the audience, and the...

Highlights: Barbican BITE2009

Gospels of Childhood The Triptych Teatr ZAR This spiritual and sensual experience is a three-part ritualistic lamentation on birth, death, pleasure and pain, told through song, chanting and movement. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- The TEAM and National Theatre of Scotland Architecting Creating a requiem for modern America, this exhilarating saga weaves through the country’s past and future, providing...

In Performance: NORDWIND FESTIVAL at the Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin, Germany)

NORDWIND FESTIVAL at the Hebbel Am Ufer FROM 30 SEPTEMBER UNTIL 7 OCTOBER 2009 The re-discovery of pathos and emotion is at the focus of the Nordwind Festival 2009. “I have nothing, absolutely nothing in common with the middle-European mentality… Theatre has to be a wolf and not a sheep. It is not an economic...
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