Books: A Choreographer’s Handbook
We were at Tanz im August Festival in Berlin last week and attended a panel on Dance and Choreography books. A Choreographer’s Handbook was one of the books discussed and we thought we would pass on the information to you. Description: On choreography: “Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking” On...
In Performance: Pathosformel (Italy) – La timidezza delle ossa
“La timidezza delle ossa” (shyness of bones). Nose, thigh-bone, knuckles and shoulder blade are broken up and shown through a thin epidermis revealing everything. They are phantasms altering our perception of the human body by doing a radiographical dance made up of rough-edge bones and squashed flesh. The body is reduced to its frame; physiognomy,...
Highlights: The Kitchen Fall Season 2010 (NYC)
The Kitchen has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country for more than three decades. Founded as an artist collective in 1971 by Woody and Steina Vasulka and incorporated as a non-profit two years later, in its infancy The Kitchen was a space where video artists and experimental composers and...
Books: Devising Performance: A Critical History (Theatre and Performance Practices)
The book charts the development of collaboratively-created performances from the 1950s to the present day. Companies discussed include the Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Théâtre de Complicité, Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment and Third Angel. Against this background of enormous variety, fundamental questions are posed: “What is devised...
In Performance: Catch 40 August 28 at 8pm (NYC)
CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance and video series-event put on every two months, in Brooklyn, NY. CATCH is slap-dashidly curated and hosted by Andrew Dinwiddie and Jeff Larson and administered by Caleb Hammons. contact them at catchseries@gmail.com CATCH 40 (celebrating seven years of Catch) Saturday 28 August 2010 @ 8, party...
In Performance: Philippe Quesne | Vivarium Studio – Big Bang (Paris, France)
BIG BANG begins with a gigantic explosion. The aftermath: six people who run ashore a small island and rewrite the history of the world in pleasurable episodes. Through elegant tableaux, meaningful gestures and with few words, the protagonists create anatomical studies of a human microcosm, transplanted into an unexpected landscape. The director, Quesne stages the...
In Performance: The Gospel at Colonus at the Edinburgh International Festival August 21-23
The Gospel at Colonus is a gospel version of Sophocles’s tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus. The show was created in New York City in 1985 by Lee Breuer, the experimental-theatre director, and composer Bob Telson, the founders of a troupe called Mabou Mines. The original script was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The...
Books: Psychophysical Acting
Psychophysical Acting is a direct address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today’s actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to approach their work. Areas of focus include: an historical overview of a psychophysical approach to acting from Stanislavski...
Highlights: Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010
Melbourne Festival is one of Australia’s international arts festivals and one of the major multi-arts festivals of the world, in terms of quality of work, innovation of vision, and scale and breadth of program. Each Festival brings dance, theatre, music, visual arts, multimedia and outdoor events from renowned and upcoming Australian and International companies and...
Books: John Jesurun – A Media Trilogy
Three media-plays by MacArthur Award-winning playwright-director-designer John Jesurun. DEEP SLEEP, WHITE WATER and BLACK MARIA chart the “loss of the real” in a landscape of adrenaline-charged freefall poetry, mediated images and vestiges of Pop culture. With an introduction by dramatist-poet Fiona Templeton, this collection gathers together for the first time a trilogy of significant works...
In Performance: Final Night – Scotty Heron and HIJACK – smithsoniansmith (NYC)
smithsoniansmith is a lo-fi, sci-fi mess. Dancing sculptors, builders and architects in the midst of a sexy, violent play. Performers courting the radical edge of dance, edge of trash, edge of decency. Choreographed and performed by Scotty Heron and HIJACK Dance (Kristin VanLoon, and Arwen Wilder) Lighting by Heidi Eckwall DIXON PLACE The Lounge at...
In Performance: Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella Sept 3 and 4, 2010 (NYC)
Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella is a reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, inspired by versions as disparate as Disney’s and the macabre Grimm brothers’. It is a one-woman show starring Sherry, Young’s southern wildcat alter ego. Sherry, playing all characters, confronts personality extremes of kindness, helplessness, and wickedness in conjunction with the stereotype she deals...
