Performance Review by Benn Widdey Keith Johnson/Dancers floated into the Diavolo Space in the Brewery Arts Complex in Los Angeles last weekend (September 14-15, 2007) to present Girl Falling Towards The Sky and two other works from their repertory. Walking into the theater, I was greeted by seven traffic cones hanging upside down over the [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Deborah Jowitt on Jeremy Wade
Thank fucking Christ! Deb-Jo pulls through with a thoroughly experiential review of Jeremy Wade‘s “…and pulled out their hair”: The people inhabiting Jeremy Wade’s . . . and pulled out their hair are not so much harmless as harmed. They can’t organize their bodies or their feelings. Motions and emotions are fractured, jolting, akimbo. Smiles [...]
Xenophonics
I’m coining a new term here. So give it up. Well, “xenophonics” can be found out in internet land, but it has never been used like its about to be used here. (And, it has nothing to do with the real Greek dude, Xenophon, or the fake Greek chick, Xena.) What I mean is, taking [...]
The New York Times Made Us Gay
And Eastern Europe is still hot… (We didn’t even read the article) St. Francis Spices Up Water Polo Team With Europeans
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Dave Kehr on Cruising
A certain friend of ours tried to make us go see this, but lo and behold, that shit was sold out, contrary to Dave Kehr’s suggestions that no one gave a hoot about the re-release of “Cruising,” William Friedkin’s 1980 suspense flick that made the already precarious gay universe just that much more psychologically fucked. [...]
A Network of One’s Own
Joseph Berger at The Times gives us the skinny on the inside world of the Barnard mafia. Our girl, Maxine Swann, is quoted all over the place, notably at the beginning: Eleven students were sitting around a table at Barnard College the other day expressly to learn how to write fiction, and their teacher, the [...]
Video Of The Day
What happens when MySpace technology and hot naked Chzech artists collide? We give you, Václav Peloušek! We found this video on our new fave site, VideoArt.net. Eastern Europe is hot. P.S. And then we found THIS!
Time(s) To Dance
Roslyn Sulcas chews on the “what is dance” question in her review of Map Me at DTW Macaulay accuses Martha Graham of having work done Merce Cunningham makes his dancers into topiaries. In bright blue unis, no less St. Anne’s presents claymation as dance And Martha Dearest’s rep for being a bi-atch ain’t goin’ anywhere [...]
Margaret Garner
Opera Review: Margaret Garner at The New York City Opera Margaret Garner is a successful opera. It is by no means a masterpiece, but the work–a joint effort by composer Richard Danielpour and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, who wrote the libretto–should definitely be regarded as a welcome addition to contemporary opera. And the New [...]
Arm Yourselves
Or rather, prepare yourselves for the Seventh Regiment Armory’s new career as an arts venue. Plans are in the work for all kinds of artistic happening, as intimated by this New York Times piece today. I don’t know what a team of motorcycles doing tail-spins on plywood boards has to do with the Armory’s historical [...]
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