Contemporary Performance is hosting an online video festival of performance works and excerpts from 06.14.2010 to 07.02.2010. We’ve curated some of our favorite user submissions and online videos from today’s leading contemporary artists and embeded them here. The videos range in purpose and content and include rehearsal videos, process videos, performance documentation, lectures, made for video, dance on camera, video art, and vj.
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, Mark Tompkins and Georges Appaix, and sometimes created soundtracks and costumes for them as well. He also worked with choreographers with a different artistic approach, such as Vera Mantero, Catherine Contour, Emmanuelle Huynh and Rachid Ouramdane. In 1996 he founded L’association Fragile and began presenting events, dancing objects, solos and group pieces, as well as various projects and commissioned work in fashion and the visual arts. Since then, over thirty projects have born fruit, not counting his pedagogical activities. The pojects for 2009 are : a piece for the Ballet of the Opera de Lyon, “ni cap ni grang canyon” which will be presented in june 2009 at the Tobbogan in Decines. There will also be the beginning of the rehearsals for the 2010 new creation of L’association Fragile “l’oubli, toucher du bois” and for three operas produced by the Capitole de Toulouse directed by Christian and which will be performed in the TNT Toulouse also in 2010. – (from the artist’s website -By Irene Filiber)
In comme crâne, comme culte
Excerpt from a film by Jean Michel Hugo
In comme crâne, comme culte by Christian Rizzo, Jean-Baptiste’s identity is concealed beneath motorcycle leathers and helmet, an anonymity which allows the audience to become absorbed in a slowly evolving drama of pure movement. Part of Dance Umbrella 2008: Out There series – fascinating, genre-defying performances which challenge accepted notions of contemporary dance
avant un mois je serai revenu et nous irons ensemble en matinée, tu sais, voir la comédie où je t’ai promis de te conduire
«Avant un mois, Je serais revenu et nous irons ensemble en matinée, tu sais, voir la comédie où je t’ai promis de te conduire» Conception : Christian Rizzo Lumière : Cathy Olive Musique : Gérôme Nox Vidéo : Jean-Gabriel Périot et Charles Carcopino Réalisation film :jean Gabriel Périot Coproduction Le Quartz, scène nationale de Brest, Maison des Arts.
Contemporary Performance is hosting an online video festival of performance works and excerpts from 06.14.2010 to 07.02.2010. We’ve curated some of our favorite user submissions and online videos from today’s leading contemporary artists and embeded them here. The videos range in purpose and content and include rehearsal videos, process videos, performance documentation, lectures, made for video, dance on camera, video art, and vj.
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, Mark Tompkins and Georges Appaix, and sometimes created soundtracks and costumes for them as well. He also worked with choreographers with a different artistic approach, such as Vera Mantero, Catherine Contour, Emmanuelle Huynh and Rachid Ouramdane. In 1996 he founded L’association Fragile and began presenting events, dancing objects, solos and group pieces, as well as various projects and commissioned work in fashion and the visual arts. Since then, over thirty projects have born fruit, not counting his pedagogical activities. The pojects for 2009 are : a piece for the Ballet of the Opera de Lyon, “ni cap ni grang canyon” which will be presented in june 2009 at the Tobbogan in Decines. There will also be the beginning of the rehearsals for the 2010 new creation of L’association Fragile “l’oubli, toucher du bois” and for three operas produced by the Capitole de Toulouse directed by Christian and which will be performed in the TNT Toulouse also in 2010. – (from the artist’s website -By Irene Filiber)
In comme crâne, comme culte
Excerpt from a film by Jean Michel Hugo
In comme crâne, comme culte by Christian Rizzo, Jean-Baptiste’s identity is concealed beneath motorcycle leathers and helmet, an anonymity which allows the audience to become absorbed in a slowly evolving drama of pure movement. Part of Dance Umbrella 2008: Out There series – fascinating, genre-defying performances which challenge accepted notions of contemporary dance
avant un mois je serai revenu et nous irons ensemble en matinée, tu sais, voir la comédie où je t’ai promis de te conduire
«Avant un mois, Je serais revenu et nous irons ensemble en matinée, tu sais, voir la comédie où je t’ai promis de te conduire» Conception : Christian Rizzo Lumière : Cathy Olive Musique : Gérôme Nox Vidéo : Jean-Gabriel Périot et Charles Carcopino Réalisation film :jean Gabriel Périot Coproduction Le Quartz, scène nationale de Brest, Maison des Arts.
MGPP finds ways of deepening their tantra practice
AHOY SWEET MATEYS!
LET’S START WITH THE MOST DELECTABLE AND LONG LASTING NEWS:
WE ARE HAPPY TO FINALLY ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF OUR NEW, OVERHAULED WEBSITE, DESIGNED BY THE INCORRIGIBLE RICHERT SCHNORR. CHECK IT OUT AT http://www.miguelgutierrez.org/ MORE PICTURES, WORDS AND MOVING IMAGES THAN YOU CAN SHAKE AN IDLE AFTERNOON OF FACEBOOKING AT!
OH DEARESTS I ALMOST THOUGHT TO RE-NAME THE MGPP INFO UPDATE AS WE’RE IN A MOMENT OF TOO MUCH SPEWING IN THE WORLD. NOR AM I FEELING PARTICULARLY CLEVER, WHICH IS FINE, BECAUSE AS A FORTUNE COOKIE ONCE TAUGHT ME, “CLEVERNESS- SUITABLE FOR EVERYTHING, SUFFICIENT FOR NOTHING.”
BUT I’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN AND ALREADY I DIGRESS.
I’M NOT HERE TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW. I’M HERE TO TELL YOU THINGS YOU NEVER ASKED TO KNOW.
IT HAS BEEN A BUSY TIME. HOWEVER, BACK IN MARCH, WHEN THE INVISIBLE KNIFE BEGAN STABBING ME REPEATEDLY IN MY LOWER BACK, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TIE MY SHOELACE, I REALIZED THAT I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO RELAX AND RESTORE. SOMETIMES I DREAM ABOUT MOVING TO AN ISLAND FAR AWAY FROM AN INTERNET CONNECTION, A PHONE SIGNAL, OR A HIGHWAY. BUT THEN I WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO CONTACT MY FRIENDS, MY ROLFER, ACCUPUNCTURIST OR THERAPIST, WHO BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE AFTER AFOREMENTIONED INJURY. AHH CRY ME A RIVER, WHINY PANTS!
BUT LET’S FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE! IN THE PREVIOUS SPEWSLETTER I MENTIONED THAT I’D BE HEADING TO CHICAGO AND PHILLY IN APRIL. WHAT I DIDN’T EXPECT WAS THE NEWS THAT I GOT A GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP TO SUPPORT RESEARCH FOR MY NEXT PROJECT. THANKS TO THE GODS, SPIRITS, SATYRS, SPRITES, DAEMONS, ALIEN LIFE FORMS, UNKNOWABLE FORCES AND TO YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORTIVE MESSAGES ABOUT THIS. IT IS TRULY REMARKABLE AND I AM SO FREAKING GRATEFUL. I WENT TO THE RECEPTION FOR THE FELLOWS, AND SCARFED DOWN AS MANY HORS D’OEVRES AS POSSIBLE (ONCE A POOR DANCER, ALWAYS A POOR DANCER). I TRIED TO EXPLAIN MY PROPOSED PROJECT TO A PLANT BIOLOGIST, WHOSE EYES SORTA GLAZED OVER. I GUESS EVEN THE INTELLIGENTSIA JUST WANT YOU TO TELL ‘EM THAT WHAT YOU DO LOOKS LIKE “SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE…” http://gf.org
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK ALL OF THE FINE FOLKS THAT CAME OUT TO TAKE MY MORNING CLASS AT MOVEMENT RESEARCH IN APRIL/MAY. I APPLAUD YOU FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN. DANCEMAKERS TAKE NOTE! YOUNG BEAUTIFUL DANCERS WALK AMONG US!
HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE at CPR for Earl Dax’s Queer Conscience Festival. photo by the increasingly powerful Ian Douglas, lighting by überlord Lenore Doxsee, costume by the immortal Machine Dazzle.
MAY (WHICH, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG CATHOLIC, I WAS TOLD IS THE “MONTH OF MARY” — LITTLE DID I KNOW HOW THAT WOULD TRANSLATE IN ADULTHOOD) KICKED MY ASS IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY. I WAS LUCKY TO SHARE A BILL WITH KYLE ABRAHAM AND RICHARD AND MIKKI AT CPR DURING EARL DAX’S AWESOME QUEER CONSCIENCE FESTIVAL. HERE’S A COOL REVIEW http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/06/dance/undressing-the-body AND THE PHOTO ABOVE’S A MOMENT FROM THE SHOW. THANKS AGAIN TO EARL DAX FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY.
THEN IT WAS TIME FOR SAMUAEL TOPIARY’S SHOW “LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS”, WHICH I’VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF DIRECTING, FOR A ONE NIGHT PREVIEW AT DIXON PLACE. TOPIARY WAS ON FIRE AND COME NOVEMBER, WHEN SHE HAS A TWO WEEK RUN AT ABRONS ART CENTER, SHE WILL SET THE ENTIRE PLACE ABLAZE. I’M SPEAKING IN METAPHORS! http://www.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_PERF_fallseason2010
topiary as pieter breughel the elder photo by paul rowley who will diss your ass in gaelic
AFTER HEARTWARMING, JOVIAL VISITS TO THE NYC PASSPORT AGENCY AND FRENCH CONSULATE FOLLOWED BY THE BEST LUNCH EVER (PICK WHICH ONE OF THOSE STATEMENTS IS TRUE!) I GOT ON A PLANE TO STRASBOURG, FRANCE TO PERFORM RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONIST AT POLE SUD IN THE VERY ROOM WHERE DEEP AEROBICS WAS CONCEIVED SOME THREE YEARS AGO!!!!!! I THINK THAT THAT EXPLAINED THE POWER IN THAT ROOM. I HAD THE ENERGY OF HUNDREDS OF BOUNCERS/MASTER PRACTITIONERS AROUND THE WORLD BEHIND ME!
Ni Vu Ni Connu by Claudia Triozzi photo by Olivier Charlot
AFTER THOSE SHOWS I WENT TO PARIS AT THE INVITATION OF THE INCREDIBLE ARTIST CLAUDIA TRIOZZI (U.S. PRESENTERS FOR GOD’S SAKES GET THIS WOMAN TO THE STATES TO DO HER GENIUS WORK SOMEWHERE!) TO DO MOVEMENT WORK WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE GROUP OF SPECIAL NEEDS TEENAGERS. IT WAS A HUMBLING AND TREMENDOUSLY INVIGORATING EXPERIENCE. http://www.latitudescontemporaines.com/en/latitudes-prod-claudia-triozzi/ni-vu-ni-connu.html
mg, clearly in need of a pilates class, trying to channel edward james olmos and jacques d’amboise
THEN I PERFORMED A MUSIC CONCERT IN VALENCIENNES, FRANCE, WITH THE FREAKISHLY TALENTED FRENCH MUSICIAN VINCENT SEGAL, FEATURING MICHELLE BOULE AND TAREK HALABY AS BACKUP SINGERS/DANCERS. A BETTER LOOKING PAIR YOU COULD NOT FIND! WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT? AS USUAL, I DON’T KNOW. TO SEE A CLIP OF VINCENT PLAYING WITH BALLAKE SISSOKO GO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5dI6m6Eh8
FINALLY WE ARE AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE NOW, WHICH INVITES THE POSSIBILITY OF CALM, ALTHOUGH THE BOOK I’M READING RIGHT NOW CLAIMS THAT THAT’S JUST THE EFFECT OF NEURONAL ACTIVITY. FUCK!
cast of Last Meadow rehearsing like crazy in lille
JULY IS GONNA GIVE IT TO YOU FORWARDS BACKWARDS SIDEWAYS AND SOME OTHER WAYS I WOULD ONLY REVEAL IN PRIVATE OR DURING A GAME OF STRIP BOGGLE OR “LISTS”. MGPP WILL BE DOING A WEEK LONG RESIDENCY AT MOUNT TREMPER ARTS (THANK YOU AYNSLEY VANDENBROUCKE AND MATHEW POKOIK FOR THIS GORGEOUS OPPORTUNITY) IN UPSTATE NEW YORK WHERE I’LL BE WORKING WITH A FIERCE GROUP OF ARTISTS. WE FOLLOW THIS WITH A WEEK LONG RESIDENCY AT THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN BOSTON, WHERE WE’LL BE MAKING A PERFORMANCE FOR SUMMER STAGES IN COLLABORATION WITH VISUAL ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE JENNY HOLZER! THANK YOU RICHARD COLTON FOR THIS OFFER. CHECK OUT THE INFO FOR BOTH GIGS HERE! http://www.mounttremperarts.org/ http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performance/co-lab/holzer-gutierrez/
I stole this image from the internet and it’s inspiring me for just about everything right now.
THEN THE WANING DAYS OF SUMMER WILL SEE ME GOING WEST YOUNG MAN. FIRST A WEEK OF TEACHING AT THE SEATTLE FESTIVAL OF DANCE IMPROVISATION. I’M TEACHING A WORKSHOP CALLED “INEFFABLE INTANGIBLE SENSATIONAL” WHICH I’M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT. IT’LL BE GREAT TO GET BACK TO SEATTLE. THANKS TO LILA HURWITZ FOR THAT INVITATION. CHECK IT OUT AND SIGN UP HERE: http://www.danceartgroup.org/sfadi/sfdi.html
AND THEN COMES A MONTH LONG JAUNT TO THE WINTER ENVIRONS OF MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA, WHERE I’LL BE IN A RESEARCH RESIDENCY WITH MY SPIRIT BROTHER IN ART, PULCHRITUDINOUS CHOREOGRAPHER LUKE GEORGE, HE OF THE MUTTONCHOPS BELOW. WE ARE GOING TO DOUBLEHANDEDLY SQUEEZE WATER OUT OF ROCKS WHILST ATTEMPTING TO RE-TILT THE EARTH’S AXIS. STAY TUNED! http://www.lukegeorge.net/
the unstoppable Luke George. my apologies to the photographer, whose name I don’t know!
AND SO MY FRIENDS, THAT’S THE WAY IT WENT, WILL GO, WANTS TO BE. I TRULY HOPE EVERYONE IS FINDING A WAY TO ENJOY THIS REEDONKULOUS MOMENT IN HISTORY. I WISH I COULD FIND A WAY TO SUM IT ALL UP BUT IT’S SO INSANE, AND UNIFYING THEORIES HAVE A TENDENCY TOWARDS FAILURE ANYWAY.
SO I’LL JUST SAY THANK YOU AND LOVE TO ALL. OH AND, HAPPY GAY PRIDE, WHEREVER YOU FALL ON THE KINSEY SCALE (REMEMBER, ADRIENNE RICH SAID SEXUALITY IS A CONTINUUM, WHICH I’LL CHOOSE TO INTERPRET THIS WEEKEND AS CONTINUAL SEX!). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZCFdd3c8QI XO M
wig thief spotted at the MR benefit before stripping and going on the lam. photo by ben pryor
if you no longer want to receive these spewsletters just lay it on me. but when I was a kid I didn’t like any food that was green and now avocados are my favorite food.
MGPP finds ways of deepening their tantra practice
AHOY SWEET MATEYS!
LET’S START WITH THE MOST DELECTABLE AND LONG LASTING NEWS:
WE ARE HAPPY TO FINALLY ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF OUR NEW, OVERHAULED WEBSITE, DESIGNED BY THE INCORRIGIBLE RICHERT SCHNORR. CHECK IT OUT AT http://www.miguelgutierrez.org/ MORE PICTURES, WORDS AND MOVING IMAGES THAN YOU CAN SHAKE AN IDLE AFTERNOON OF FACEBOOKING AT!
OH DEARESTS I ALMOST THOUGHT TO RE-NAME THE MGPP INFO UPDATE AS WE’RE IN A MOMENT OF TOO MUCH SPEWING IN THE WORLD. NOR AM I FEELING PARTICULARLY CLEVER, WHICH IS FINE, BECAUSE AS A FORTUNE COOKIE ONCE TAUGHT ME, “CLEVERNESS- SUITABLE FOR EVERYTHING, SUFFICIENT FOR NOTHING.”
BUT I’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN AND ALREADY I DIGRESS.
I’M NOT HERE TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW. I’M HERE TO TELL YOU THINGS YOU NEVER ASKED TO KNOW.
IT HAS BEEN A BUSY TIME. HOWEVER, BACK IN MARCH, WHEN THE INVISIBLE KNIFE BEGAN STABBING ME REPEATEDLY IN MY LOWER BACK, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TIE MY SHOELACE, I REALIZED THAT I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO RELAX AND RESTORE. SOMETIMES I DREAM ABOUT MOVING TO AN ISLAND FAR AWAY FROM AN INTERNET CONNECTION, A PHONE SIGNAL, OR A HIGHWAY. BUT THEN I WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO CONTACT MY FRIENDS, MY ROLFER, ACCUPUNCTURIST OR THERAPIST, WHO BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE AFTER AFOREMENTIONED INJURY. AHH CRY ME A RIVER, WHINY PANTS!
BUT LET’S FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE! IN THE PREVIOUS SPEWSLETTER I MENTIONED THAT I’D BE HEADING TO CHICAGO AND PHILLY IN APRIL. WHAT I DIDN’T EXPECT WAS THE NEWS THAT I GOT A GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP TO SUPPORT RESEARCH FOR MY NEXT PROJECT. THANKS TO THE GODS, SPIRITS, SATYRS, SPRITES, DAEMONS, ALIEN LIFE FORMS, UNKNOWABLE FORCES AND TO YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORTIVE MESSAGES ABOUT THIS. IT IS TRULY REMARKABLE AND I AM SO FREAKING GRATEFUL. I WENT TO THE RECEPTION FOR THE FELLOWS, AND SCARFED DOWN AS MANY HORS D’OEVRES AS POSSIBLE (ONCE A POOR DANCER, ALWAYS A POOR DANCER). I TRIED TO EXPLAIN MY PROPOSED PROJECT TO A PLANT BIOLOGIST, WHOSE EYES SORTA GLAZED OVER. I GUESS EVEN THE INTELLIGENTSIA JUST WANT YOU TO TELL ‘EM THAT WHAT YOU DO LOOKS LIKE “SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE…” http://gf.org
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK ALL OF THE FINE FOLKS THAT CAME OUT TO TAKE MY MORNING CLASS AT MOVEMENT RESEARCH IN APRIL/MAY. I APPLAUD YOU FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN. DANCEMAKERS TAKE NOTE! YOUNG BEAUTIFUL DANCERS WALK AMONG US!
HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE at CPR for Earl Dax’s Queer Conscience Festival. photo by the increasingly powerful Ian Douglas, lighting by überlord Lenore Doxsee, costume by the immortal Machine Dazzle.
MAY (WHICH, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG CATHOLIC, I WAS TOLD IS THE “MONTH OF MARY” — LITTLE DID I KNOW HOW THAT WOULD TRANSLATE IN ADULTHOOD) KICKED MY ASS IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY. I WAS LUCKY TO SHARE A BILL WITH KYLE ABRAHAM AND RICHARD AND MIKKI AT CPR DURING EARL DAX’S AWESOME QUEER CONSCIENCE FESTIVAL. HERE’S A COOL REVIEW http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/06/dance/undressing-the-body AND THE PHOTO ABOVE’S A MOMENT FROM THE SHOW. THANKS AGAIN TO EARL DAX FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY.
THEN IT WAS TIME FOR SAMUAEL TOPIARY’S SHOW “LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS”, WHICH I’VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF DIRECTING, FOR A ONE NIGHT PREVIEW AT DIXON PLACE. TOPIARY WAS ON FIRE AND COME NOVEMBER, WHEN SHE HAS A TWO WEEK RUN AT ABRONS ART CENTER, SHE WILL SET THE ENTIRE PLACE ABLAZE. I’M SPEAKING IN METAPHORS! http://www.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_PERF_fallseason2010
topiary as pieter breughel the elder photo by paul rowley who will diss your ass in gaelic
AFTER HEARTWARMING, JOVIAL VISITS TO THE NYC PASSPORT AGENCY AND FRENCH CONSULATE FOLLOWED BY THE BEST LUNCH EVER (PICK WHICH ONE OF THOSE STATEMENTS IS TRUE!) I GOT ON A PLANE TO STRASBOURG, FRANCE TO PERFORM RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONIST AT POLE SUD IN THE VERY ROOM WHERE DEEP AEROBICS WAS CONCEIVED SOME THREE YEARS AGO!!!!!! I THINK THAT THAT EXPLAINED THE POWER IN THAT ROOM. I HAD THE ENERGY OF HUNDREDS OF BOUNCERS/MASTER PRACTITIONERS AROUND THE WORLD BEHIND ME!
Ni Vu Ni Connu by Claudia Triozzi photo by Olivier Charlot
AFTER THOSE SHOWS I WENT TO PARIS AT THE INVITATION OF THE INCREDIBLE ARTIST CLAUDIA TRIOZZI (U.S. PRESENTERS FOR GOD’S SAKES GET THIS WOMAN TO THE STATES TO DO HER GENIUS WORK SOMEWHERE!) TO DO MOVEMENT WORK WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE GROUP OF SPECIAL NEEDS TEENAGERS. IT WAS A HUMBLING AND TREMENDOUSLY INVIGORATING EXPERIENCE. http://www.latitudescontemporaines.com/en/latitudes-prod-claudia-triozzi/ni-vu-ni-connu.html
mg, clearly in need of a pilates class, trying to channel edward james olmos and jacques d’amboise
THEN I PERFORMED A MUSIC CONCERT IN VALENCIENNES, FRANCE, WITH THE FREAKISHLY TALENTED FRENCH MUSICIAN VINCENT SEGAL, FEATURING MICHELLE BOULE AND TAREK HALABY AS BACKUP SINGERS/DANCERS. A BETTER LOOKING PAIR YOU COULD NOT FIND! WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT? AS USUAL, I DON’T KNOW. TO SEE A CLIP OF VINCENT PLAYING WITH BALLAKE SISSOKO GO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5dI6m6Eh8
AND THEN MGPP UNLEASHED LAST MEADOW TO AN UNSUSPECTING POPULATION OF WILLING FOLKS IN LILLE FRANCE. NOT 24 HOURS AFTER THAT, I PERFORMED RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONIST THERE AS WELL, DARKENING THE ASS SCAR KNOWN TO MANY AROUND THE WORLD.
FINALLY WE ARE AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE NOW, WHICH INVITES THE POSSIBILITY OF CALM, ALTHOUGH THE BOOK I’M READING RIGHT NOW CLAIMS THAT THAT’S JUST THE EFFECT OF NEURONAL ACTIVITY. FUCK!
cast of Last Meadow rehearsing like crazy in lille
JULY IS GONNA GIVE IT TO YOU FORWARDS BACKWARDS SIDEWAYS AND SOME OTHER WAYS I WOULD ONLY REVEAL IN PRIVATE OR DURING A GAME OF STRIP BOGGLE OR “LISTS”. MGPP WILL BE DOING A WEEK LONG RESIDENCY AT MOUNT TREMPER ARTS (THANK YOU AYNSLEY VANDENBROUCKE AND MATHEW POKOIK FOR THIS GORGEOUS OPPORTUNITY) IN UPSTATE NEW YORK WHERE I’LL BE WORKING WITH A FIERCE GROUP OF ARTISTS. WE FOLLOW THIS WITH A WEEK LONG RESIDENCY AT THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN BOSTON, WHERE WE’LL BE MAKING A PERFORMANCE FOR SUMMER STAGES IN COLLABORATION WITH VISUAL ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE JENNY HOLZER! THANK YOU RICHARD COLTON FOR THIS OFFER. CHECK OUT THE INFO FOR BOTH GIGS HERE! http://www.mounttremperarts.org/ http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performance/co-lab/holzer-gutierrez/
I stole this image from the internet and it’s inspiring me for just about everything right now.
THEN THE WANING DAYS OF SUMMER WILL SEE ME GOING WEST YOUNG MAN. FIRST A WEEK OF TEACHING AT THE SEATTLE FESTIVAL OF DANCE IMPROVISATION. I’M TEACHING A WORKSHOP CALLED “INEFFABLE INTANGIBLE SENSATIONAL” WHICH I’M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT. IT’LL BE GREAT TO GET BACK TO SEATTLE. THANKS TO LILA HURWITZ FOR THAT INVITATION. CHECK IT OUT AND SIGN UP HERE: http://www.danceartgroup.org/sfadi/sfdi.html
AND THEN COMES A MONTH LONG JAUNT TO THE WINTER ENVIRONS OF MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA, WHERE I’LL BE IN A RESEARCH RESIDENCY WITH MY SPIRIT BROTHER IN ART, PULCHRITUDINOUS CHOREOGRAPHER LUKE GEORGE, HE OF THE MUTTONCHOPS BELOW. WE ARE GOING TO DOUBLEHANDEDLY SQUEEZE WATER OUT OF ROCKS WHILST ATTEMPTING TO RE-TILT THE EARTH’S AXIS. STAY TUNED! http://www.lukegeorge.net/
the unstoppable Luke George. my apologies to the photographer, whose name I don’t know!
AND SO MY FRIENDS, THAT’S THE WAY IT WENT, WILL GO, WANTS TO BE. I TRULY HOPE EVERYONE IS FINDING A WAY TO ENJOY THIS REEDONKULOUS MOMENT IN HISTORY. I WISH I COULD FIND A WAY TO SUM IT ALL UP BUT IT’S SO INSANE, AND UNIFYING THEORIES HAVE A TENDENCY TOWARDS FAILURE ANYWAY.
SO I’LL JUST SAY THANK YOU AND LOVE TO ALL. OH AND, HAPPY GAY PRIDE, WHEREVER YOU FALL ON THE KINSEY SCALE (REMEMBER, ADRIENNE RICH SAID SEXUALITY IS A CONTINUUM, WHICH I’LL CHOOSE TO INTERPRET THIS WEEKEND AS CONTINUAL SEX!). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZCFdd3c8QI XO M
wig thief spotted at the MR benefit before stripping and going on the lam. photo by ben pryor
if you no longer want to receive these spewsletters just lay it on me. but when I was a kid I didn’t like any food that was green and now avocados are my favorite food.
Temporary Distortion’s Americana Kamikaze is mentioned again in The New York Times:
“The future of horror onstage may lie in multimedia; some of the most interesting work is being done by Temporary Distortion, whose hit show last year, “Americana Kamikaze,” paid homage to Japanese horror movies. It was neither spare nor bloody. Instead, Kenneth Collins’s staging juxtaposed direct address monologues from ramrod-still actors with elegant video that showed horrific violence in graphic detail. Its clever solution was to in effect outsource the dirty business to video.”
Contemporary Performance is hosting an online video festival of performance works and excerpts from 06.14.2010 to 07.02.2010. We’ve curated some of our favorite user submissions and online videos from today’s leading contemporary artists and embeded them here. The videos range in purpose and content and include rehearsal videos, process videos, performance documentation, lectures, made for video, dance on camera, video art, and vj.
The Wooster Group is a New York City-based experimental theater company known for creating numerous original dramatic works. It gradually emerged during 1975-1980 from Richard Schechner’s The Performance Group (1967-1980) and took its name in 1980 (the 1975-1980 independent productions being retroactively attributed to the Group). The ensemble is since directed by Elizabeth LeComp. The Group’s home is the Performing Garage in SoHo.
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Contemporary Performance is hosting an online video festival of performance works and excerpts from 06.14.2010 to 07.02.2010. We’ve curated some of our favorite user submissions and online videos from today’s leading contemporary artists and embeded them here. The videos range in purpose and content and include rehearsal videos, process videos, performance documentation, lectures, made for video, dance on camera, video art, and vj.
The Wooster Group is a New York City-based experimental theater company known for creating numerous original dramatic works. It gradually emerged during 1975-1980 from Richard Schechner’s The Performance Group (1967-1980) and took its name in 1980 (the 1975-1980 independent productions being retroactively attributed to the Group). The ensemble is since directed by Elizabeth LeComp. The Group’s home is the Performing Garage in SoHo.
Contemporary Performance is hosting an online video festival of performance works and excerpts from 06.14.2010 to 07.02.2010. We’ve curated some of our favorite user submissions and online videos from today’s leading contemporary artists and embeded them here. The videos range in purpose and content and include rehearsal videos, process videos, performance documentation, lectures, made for video, dance on camera, video art, and vj.
Sunn O))) (pronounced SUN) is an American experimental band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, doom metal and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O’Malley (also of Khanate and Burning Witch) and Greg Anderson (of Goatsnake).
Their sound image is extremely slow and heavy, using electric guitars, in low tunings such as drop A, enriched by resonant feedback creating their soundscapes. There is very little drumming and a lack of any discernible beat. When performing live the band wear ‘grim robes’, fill the air with fog, and play at an extremely high volume.
(from the NYC Players Website) New York City Players is a theater company creating original work about people, relationships, and above all, feeling. New York City Players’ aim is to initiate a new dialogue with an ever-growing audience using original text and music. By rigorously stripping away the habitual identities that encumber work, we pursue the power of language, of story, of image, and what happens when people gather in a room.
Contemporary Performance is hosting an online video festival of performance works and excerpts from 06.14.2010 to 07.02.2010. We’ve curated some of our favorite user submissions and online videos from today’s leading contemporary artists and embeded them here. The videos range in purpose and content and include rehearsal videos, process videos, performance documentation, lectures, made for video, dance on camera, video art, and vj.
The ‘garden’ scene from Virtuoso (working title) written/directed by Peter S Petralia performed and devised by Mark Esaias, Gillian Lees and Andrew Westerside music/sound design by [zygote] lighting design by Rebecca MK Makus
Visual foley. A television show that doesn’t exist. A spot on the wall.
With Virtuoso (working title), Proto-type Theater expands on the sensual experience of their critically acclaimed Whisper into a world of televisual decadence. Three performers stage the story of a stagnant American suburbia, circa 1963, where the minutiae of everyday life has become strange: glass windows portend violence, a spot on the wall promises freedom, a stranger appears in the living room. Playing games to keep boredom at bay, they switch virtuosically from persona to persona, never content to idly wait for something to happen. Outside, the world seems to be closing in on them as the protective banality of suburbia dissolves – leaving them stranded, and exposed.
The audience witnesses the construction of this strange world on three flat screen monitors, behind which the performers can be seen assembling the backgrounds, costumes and props necessary to crafting a series of perfect images. Building the visual world in front of the audience using live video feeds, the performers also manipulate miniature figurines, houses and scenery in a play on scale that toys with the boundaries of perception. Virtuoso (working title) is a negotiation of the live and the mediated, ruminating on love, home, and perfection.
Proto-type Theater is based in Lancaster, UK and Brooklyn, NY and we make original theater and media work that tours internationally. Our recent piece, Virtuoso (working title) is touring throughout the UK where it has been hailed as “an immensely satisfying piece of culture history” and as “an exhilarating theatrical experience” by Total Theatre. Whisper toured throughout the UK and to PS 122 in New York City where it was acclaimed as “an intriguing brush with altered reality… poetic. And the production flirts with the feel of a supernatural, psychological thriller.” (New York Times). We create touring theatre/live art/media, conduct workshops and summer schools, and run networking events to create a stronger contemporary performance sector in the UK.
Video of the second swarm happening on November 25th by die urbanauten (Munich) within the SPIELART theatre festival 2009 with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Munich.
Real-time theatrical happenings in real public space, which set the stage for encounters. Selforganized performative urbanity. Swarm communication in 140 characters. A relay station coordinates the players in the swarm. There are two channels of communication: mail-to-SMS and an event-specific twitter channel.
Moment of Starlings allows participants to communicate, discuss and distribute ideas via SMS back channel or hash tag (such as #schwarm1). The swarm is democratic: anyone with a mobile phone or a twitter account may suggest a location, a time or a choreography for the swarm’s performance – in advance or in real time. The idea most often sent or “retweeted” is realized; in other words: the most democratically popular idea prevails.
Absent spectators are not limited to real time twittering; they can watch the motions of the swarm, which is accompanied by several mobile livestream cameras. Intervention and participation is possible from a couch in Tokyo just as easily as from a mobile phone in the swarm. Communication sans frontières. Genres with fuzzy borders. A communication cloud surrounds the project.
Tere O’Connor Dance presents “Wrought Iron Fog” at Dance Theater Workshop, June 23-26, 2010.
Photo by Yi-Chun Wu Matthew Rogers, Hilary Clark, Daniel Clifton, Heather Olson, Erin Gerken
ABOUT THE WORK:
Tere O’Connor’s new evening-length work, Wrought Iron Fog, engages in a poetic interface with the convoluted ideologies of contemporary culture. Its richly layered structure flows through unexpected shifts in rhythm and mood, revealing interior psychologies ghosted behind the surface of the dance. With this work, O’Connor has created a choreographic essay on the nature of consciousness, a complex network of disparate ideas willfully wrapped in a patina of concert dance. The New York Times writes, “Mr. O’Connor seems to be charting new territory in “Wrought Iron Fog.” Much of its unassuming beauty is seen in his agility at guiding dancers through space (or is it the space that guides them?), with choreography that allows the structure to expand and shrink with a curious blend of dexterity and fervor.” Wrought Iron Fog features an original score by James Baker, lighting design by Michael O’Connor, and set design by Walter Dundervill and Tere O’Connor. The work is performed by Hilary Clark, Daniel Clifton, Erin Gerken, Heather Olson, and Matthew Rogers. Wrought Iron Fog premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, November 2009. (65-minutes)
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ABOUT THE COMPANY:
In his work, O’Connor attempts to bring into evidence aspects of consciousness that are present in the contingencies of dance. The complex coexistence of time passing, metaphor, constant change, tangential thought, and memory play is central to the work and delineates the spectrum of corporeal and structural choices he makes in his work. He is committed to the power of dance as a sub-linguistic area of expression and revels in its ability to braid together the personal and the universal.
O’Connor’s astounding performers and renowned collaborators constitute a family of artists who are dedicated to expanding the potency of dance as a serious art form. His boldly individualist approach to choreography has contributed new thought to the form and resonates throughout its theoretical discourse.
Contemporary Performance is hosting an online video festival of performance works and excerpts from 06.14.2010 to 07.02.2010. We’ve curated some of our favorite user submissions and online videos from today’s leading contemporary artists and embeded them here. The videos range in purpose and content and include rehearsal videos, process videos, performance documentation, lectures, made for video, dance on camera, video art, and vj.
A CULTURE’S POWER STRUCTURE DEPENDS LARGELY ON HOW WE LOOK AND HOW WE ARE LOOKED AT.
Between 17th July 2006 and 29th May 2009, working with mask and sculpture, Russell Higgs created a photo of himself every day.
In this project he made a commitment to abide by a series of (arbitrary) boundaries and rules, eg: each portrait must be taken between midnight of each day, they can never be shot days in advance nor in retrospect, and the default pose is as for ID cards, forward facing, and minimal expression.
