Here’s a release from Chez Bushwick, hosting and advocating for some great events around Bushwick this weekend’s Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival. See full details and contact info after the jump…
Your Relational Guide
Andrew Simonet gives you the Dance Insider walking tour of Lisa Kraus’ “The Partita Project,” newly staged within an old mansion in Philadelphia’s Fairmont Park. If you ever wondered why dance is so important, this is a thorough, if lavish, explanation of how dance is the only genre today that consistently challenges how humans relate [...]
“La Rocco, Cardona. Cardona, La Rocco.”
Claudia La Rocco, in her New York Times review gives a thumbs-up to Wally Cardona‘s new piece at DTW. There’s not much in terms of analysis, but there is this little spurt of lyricism: “…moments of strange poetry opened up, blossoming like the sheets of paper that had been crumpled into unwieldy wads.” Unwieldy wads [...]
Village Voice: This just in…two weeks later
The Voice decides to chime in on the Doug Varone debate. Am I talking crazy, or doesn’t anybody care about gender relationships in dance? Well, other than Dancing With The Stars?
Movin’ On Up…or Under
Yay for Galapagos Art Space getting a new home!… in DUMBO? Here’s a feature in The Times. Galapagos certainly deserves a permanent home that isn’t under constant threat of unregulated rent increase. But what does it mean that it’s moving from the high-cost but scruffy imaged neighborhood of Williamsburg, to an even higher cost neighborhood [...]
Contra Critique: Dixon Place’s “Crossing Boundaries”
[Contra Critique is intended to be series devoted to reporting non-critically on art and performance presentations that are not meant to be reviewed, such as works in process or private viewings.] Dixon Place’s “Crossing Boundaries”, a works-in-process series curated by Marcia Monroe: This week featuring works by Rachel Bernsen, Joyce S. Lim, Elke Rindfleisch and [...]
Music Machine: NYU Idolatry
Angela Ashman rocks out with this article in The Village Voice about the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at NYU. The piece focuses on the realities–both grim and grandiose–the students face as their dreams and desires are filtered through an academic model, which traditionally implies a categorical, measurable success for students and their futures. [...]
Time(s) To Dance
Alastair McCaulay says Wendy Whelan ain’t so hot, Sara Mearns is juicy at NYCB. Then he re-discovers how to appreciate gesture in St. Mark’s’ cemetary. And Diane Solway exposes dancers’ “chunky” side.
Cardona won’t blow just ANY woodwind
Choreographer, Wally Cardona, in an interview with Gia Kourlas for TimeOutNY, reveals this little tidbit about his past: “I played clarinet. I’ve got to say the clarinet is one of the most embarrassing instruments to play. There’s something about the way you hold it and have to pucker up your mouth, and how you end [...]
I.C.E. is H.O.T.
Steve Smith at The Times comes up with this review of International Contemporary Ensemble‘s recent performance of Nono‘s “A Floresta é Jovem e Cheja de Vida” (“The Forest Is Young and Full of Life”). I missed this performance, sadly. But a while back I saw ICE do Peter Maxwell Davies “Eight Songs for a Mad [...]
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