Bon voyage for about a week!
I know we just started going out, but I’m already in need of some serious out-of-town action. I won’t be cheating on you, just visiting family.
I’m not saying you won’t hear from me. I’ll call when I can, and post if it’s something really important. But really, we could both [...]
Review: Glen Rumsey, little virtue
We have to be careful. In our culture that is ever more prone to valuing appearance over substantive quality, it is easier and easier to get by with mediocrity without really being held up to the light. The panelists that sit as judges on the average reality talent competition are rarely [...]
Preview: Elke Rindfleisch’s “Do I Know You?” at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg; Sunday, July 1, 7:30PM $10
Back in 2003, Elke Rindfleisch began working in a style that people have now come to know her by: a highly flexible and unexpectedly athletic facility applied to mostly abstract movement but never veering too far away [...]
New York Mag registers its review of Sicko…and it’s a winner!
Seriously. I think this is the final tilt to the positive. Reading this review kind of made me think that trying to critique a documentary of this specific type through purely aesthetic ethics, might do a complete disservice to the culture that is [...]
These kinds of things are bound to happen, as Pina Bausch continues her greatest-hits-of-the-world tour. Cultural pastiche becomes novelty, and the fabric of composition and form begin to dissolve.
Paul Ben-Itzak isn’t too fond of the new Pina at Paris. In his DanceInsider review, he bemoans the cacophonic blasting music and the lack of [...]
Read this review of the Bastille Opera’s latest production via future-NYC Opera-artistic director, Gerard Mortier.
Mr. Mortier, like Peter Gelb at The Met, has vowed to bring a whole bag of tricks to try to young-up the opera crowds at Lincoln Center. Well, regarding Emir Kusturika’s “Time of the Gypsies”, here you go…
“a so-called Gypsy [...]
I was first exposed to Glen Rumsey (or his work, at least) in 2005. His first evening-length work, ignored in my heaven, commissioned by and performed at Location One Gallery in Soho, was an amazing surprise, not only to me, but to reviewers throughout the city. Based on passages from Glen’s dream journals, [...]
The Public’s Central Park production of Romeo and Juliet drowns in Eric Grode’s review in The New York Sun. Apparently the waterworks (a giant pool in the middle of the set) tsunami the drama and wash out the actors.
Still kind of want to check it out, since it sounds like Lauren Ambrose (of Six Feet [...]
We’re really pulling for Sicko here…and here. We know, we know. We just really want this film to kick some corporate-corruption ass.
Read J. Hoberman’s review in The Voice for a pretty decent write-up.
I’ll never forget watching that woman skin the rabbit in Roger & Me during my 11th grade AP History class. [...]
“MY epiphany came when I told a friend I was going to a chamber music concert, and she — well-educated, well-heeled, operagoing — made a throwing-up gesture into her hand.”
This kind of sums up the genius of Anne Midgette. (It takes so much energy not to call her “Midget”!!!)
I mean, I might take issue [...]
