Culture

  • Art & Performance recommendations

    June 1

    Jonathan VanDyke

    The artist Austin Thomas is having an opening for her new gallery space, called Pocket Utopia (site coming soon) just off the Morgan L Stop, featuring a site-specific installation by Jonathan VanDyke titled The Salon of the Covered Bride.

     

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    Friends Felicia Ballos and Michael Mahalchick are among the performers in the Movement Research Festival presentation of Populous by AUNTS at Judson Church at Washington Square:

    Friday June 1, 7:30pm & 9pm, $8 suggested – Judson Memorial Church Gym
    Like varieties of a species in a zoo, Populous is the controlled manage- ment of nine separate but simultaneous performances. The edges of the space are parceled off for each performance, delineated by markings on the floor, with a space in the center of the room for the audience. Each performance is allowed unlimited construction of movement, sound, light, and energy within its parcel. Visit: myspace.com/aunts. Ana Keilson. Liz Santoro. Juan Adley. Felicia Ballos. Jacqueline Fritz. Christine Elmo a.k.a. AndyÂ’s MoM. Jennifer Rosenblit. Michael Mahalchick. Ede Thurrell.

     

    June 2

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    Frankie Martin will be performing “frankfurter freakout” from 3-6pm at John Connelly Presents as part of the AVAF (Assume Vivid Astro Focus) installation.

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  • Tribeca Film Festival at The Reeler

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    Check out my friend Stu’s The Reeler for all of your Tribeca coverage. We — I’m the tech consultant — launched the Tribeca part late last night.

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  • Benefits – support art, music, and theater

    Here is a reminder to buy tickets to the benefit events of Rhizome (April 16) and The Civilians (April 18). While you’re at it, the playwright organization 13P is having a cabaret benefit at Joe’s Pub on April 29th. More details are on their website.

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  • Mirandy July website

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    I love the website for Miranda July’s new book of short stories.

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  • The Civilians benefit – Resurrection Vaudeville

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    I see today that The Civilians are listed in Time Out New York as one of eight Off-Off Broadway companies to watch. This reminds me to write about their benefit coming up on April 18, titled Resurrection Vaudeville. James and I are big supporters, and have seen nearly everything they’ve done in the last four years in NYC. Join us for some drinks and entertainment!

    Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    Arena Nightclub
    135 West 41st Street
    Between 6th Avenue & Broadway
    New York, NY 10036
    8pm to 1am, Performance at 9pm

    Enjoy drinks and dancing in this new Midtown club, surrounded by The Civilians’ artists, friends, and supporters. Includes complimentary drinks from event sponsors Tequila Corazón, Smithwick’s Ale, and Red Stripe Beer; full cash bar; silent auction; and raffle.

    Members of The Civilians will perform songs from the company’s new show about Evangelical Christianity—along with a few favorites by Michael Friedman.

    In a lucky bit of timing, they were in Colorado Springs visiting Ted Haggard’s church as part of their research when all the excitement broke.

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  • Another performance recommendation

    Keigwin Kaberet is coming up at Symphony Space in early April. We first saw Larry Keigwin dance a beautiful Nijinsky faun in a Mark Dendy piece at Dance Theater Workshop.

    Here is a YouTube video from Keigwin + Company.

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  • Performance recommendations

    James and I are going to two dance/theater works soon. They’re both people we love and have seen before:

    Update

    Via culturebot I learn there is a preview video on YouTube of the Adrienne Truscott show.

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  • Idiocracy

    Idiocracy is one of my favorite films of the last couple of years. Speak Up has a great write-up on the amazing design of the movie. Via Signals vs. Noise.

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  • Taking One for the Team / Catalogue of Ships

    Given the recent Scooter Libby trial, now seems like a good time to mention a short theater work that James and I saw last month as part of Target Margin’s season of plays inspired by classical Greek works. The theme of the play was scapegoats, and the title was “Taking One for the Team”. It managed to blend the stories of Iphigenia, Scooter Libby, plus others into a short sharp piece. It was created by the sound artist Michael Kraskin in collaboration with the cast. I loved the final speech of Iphegenia, inspired by a text of Euripides. In it she talks of how her sacrifice, and that of other Greeks, is necessary to show that the Greeks are civilized, and their enemies are barbarians.

    Thanks to that production, I discovered the podcast he has been doing with David Terry since late 2005, titled Catalogue of Ships, with the title inspired by Homer’s “Iliad”. Thanks to the power of Odeo, I’m embedding a few of my favorite episodes so far. I’ve been listening in order, and I’m only through the first year so far. If you like Robert Ashley or Mikel Rouse, I think you’ll like these.

    I chose Episode Three for its really beautiful sound design.


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    Episode Four tells the story of David Terry in Greece in October 2001, and his attempt to cheer up some Afghan refugees with some song and dance.


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  • Berlin Alexandeplatz coming to MoMA

    Yeah! The Reeler informs us that the newly restored print of Fassbinder’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz” is coming to MoMA in April.

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