Photo by Paula Court
Clearly contemporary art can have anything as its subject matter and can execute it in any form. “Big Eater” does just that, situating a performance piece on David Hasselhoff’s demoralizing video, taped by his young daughter, in which he’s eating a hamburger on the ground completely wasted. Through the device of appropriation [...]
Category Archives: Performing Arts
Big Eater @ The Kitchen
March 12, 2010 – 8:27 am
Henry Rollins, Travelin’ Man
February 8, 2010 – 11:40 am
I’m a travellin’ man
Movin’ through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But God willin’ I’m comin’ back to you
Mos Def probably didn’t have Henry Rollins in mind when he wrote the lyrics to his ‘Travellin’ Man,’ but they still fit the writer/rocker/DJ/activist like a glove. Rollins really is the constant traveler, driven [...]
Waiting for Godot a la Paul Chan
February 1, 2010 – 12:26 pm
Innovative artist and activist Paul Chan will give an “illustrated lecture,” recounting his sensation-spawning performances of Beckett’s masterpiece in a beleaguered New Orleans during 2007, at Redcat Theatre at The Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles tonight.
Trifles at St. Mark’s Church
January 25, 2010 – 2:06 pm
Trifles, a 1916 one-act play by Susan Glaspell set at the scene of a bizarre murder in the Midwest in 1900, is being staged by Theater of the Two-headed Calf at St. Mark’s Church. Trifles director Brooke O’Harra and Composer Brendan Connelly team up with the new music ensemble Yarn/Wire to approach Glaspell’s text as [...]
Mendes, Shakespeare, BAM!
January 22, 2010 – 1:42 pm
Oscar and Tony winner Sam Mendes has arrived in Brooklyn with a pair of plays by the grand old bard as part of the second annual Bridge Project, a cross-Atlantic production between The West End’s Old Vic Theatre and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (his street team seems to have arrived well in advance with [...]
Poppy de Villeneuve’s Leaps and Bounds
November 24, 2009 – 2:01 pm
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. To mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth Poppy de Villeneuve has created a short film with the Rambert Dance Company at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. The film can be seen at ELUXURY.
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen @ Performance Project
November 6, 2009 – 6:02 am
Tomorrow at 1pm, Saturday the 7th, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen will be performing The Present Doesn’t Exist in My Mind and the Future is Already Far Behind at Performance Project. The piece is inspired by the writings of Futurist females Valentine de Saint Point and Mina Loy and deals with theses of lust, sexuality, and [...]
Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse
November 4, 2009 – 5:07 pm
La Danse, Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film, is a masterpiece. In it the 79-year-old director has set aside the epic, ongoing film of America’s institutional fabric that has been his life’s work in order to take up a subject that seems nearer to his personal affections – the Paris Opera Ballet. If, like me, [...]
Ready. Set. Performa 09′.
November 3, 2009 – 3:47 am
Performa 09′ has commenced. With 110 events to catch the schedule can seem overwhelming. With an expansive approach to performance and its intersection with dance, music, visual art, poetry, film, architecture, and television, the programming is abundant with offerings. The schedule is designed so that you take in multiple performances or events in one night [...]
ADANSONIAS, Act I
September 30, 2009 – 12:21 pm
Terence Koh presents ADANSONIAS, A Tragic Opera In 8 Acts
ACT 1
6th October 2009
8 PM
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003. Paris.
