Last night our friend Scarlett Rouge presented her film Magic Trauma Sprinkles as part of drag diva Vaginal Davis’s ongoing residency at PS122, “Speaking from the Diaphragm.” Scarlett is the daughter of Rick Owens’s wife Michele Lamy and has known Vag’ since she was in diapers (Davis babysat her when she was a child). According [...]
Category Archives: Performing Arts
bobrauschenbergamerica
May 12, 2010 – 1:14 pm
The beginning of bobrauschenbergamerica opens with a giant American flag set and a cast of nine characters moving around, coming and going, re-arranging props, roller skating by flirtatiously, making eyes at one another, climbing in boxes and bath tubs- all preparing you for the ruckus ahead. I was struck by a voice-over that seemed to represent [...]
Malcolm McLaren
April 8, 2010 – 10:43 pm
The incomparable Malcolm McLaren passed away today. Thank you for your sharing your world and for the music. You will be missed.
Louder Than A Bomb
March 29, 2010 – 8:26 am
Chicago’s teen poetry slam, Louder Than A Bomb, just celebrated their 10th anniversary this month, holding the title as the largest teen poetry slam in the country. The documentary about this annual festival, directed by Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs, just took the Audience Choice Award for best film and the Greg Gund Memorial Standing [...]
Mining the Past in the Present: Haunted at the Guggenheim
March 26, 2010 – 9:59 am
Adam Helms‘s, Untitled Portrait (Santa Fe Trail), 2007, from Haunted Opening today, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance is the latest show at the Guggenheim to focus on performance-based art. Including photography, sound, and video along with performance, Haunted is a far cry from the Tino Sehgal make-out session of the last 3 months or last year’s THEANYSPACEWHATEVER show. [...]
Big Eater at The Kitchen
March 12, 2010 – 8:27 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
