Theater Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” @ BAM To use the skippy theme song from the 50′s-era television hit “Happy Days” as intermission music was a cute a touch. Unfortunately, director Deborah Warner and lead actress, Fiona Shaw, eroded Beckett’s dire existential portrait that explores human isolation, our resistance to aging, and the need ultimately, [...]
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This thoughtful piece just came in from A.O. Scott.
What a lovely belly button we have
As some of y’all have read, we published a fairly controversial piece on Alex Ross, our former crush and erudite music critic for The New Yorker. Then a friend of ours sent in a comment likening Ross’s prescription for the future of new music (which is always a critique of the present) to Barrack Obama’s [...]
Times provides a great segue
Chez Bushwick‘s second performance program at Whitney Live gets a nice review by Jennifer Dunning in The New York Times. Layard Thompson, Ede Thurrell and Brandin Steffensen all performed their own interpretations of Deborah Hay’s solo, “News.” Dunning gave the evening an “intriguing” thumbs up. Well, C.C. was there too. And, what do you know, [...]
Pierre Boulez Is Not Dead
Music Review: Pierre Boulez conducts Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall It was difficult to watch Pierre Boulez conduct his own works at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall last Thursday night without feeling distinctly that this kind of music—rigorously intellectual, formidable in its composition, challenging to the conventional ear—is an endangered species. Not for lack of audience, which, [...]
Mon Ross En Rose
Music critic and former object of C.C.’s affection, Alex Ross, made an appearance on Charlie Rose Tuesday night, and C.C. was just sober enough to take in a little of the action. Our suspicions were confirmed, however. It seems that A. Ro., as we affectionately refer to him around here, is kind of the enemy. [...]
Pause For Intermission
Please enjoy this video while C.C. gets her shit together…
Kids Incorporated
Dance Review: Miguel Gutierrez and The Powerful People, “Everyone” (Photo by Alex Escalante) Miguel Gutierrez must know he’s doing God’s Work, in terms of dance. That is to say, his dance works, if he continues to make them as he has been, will probably never draw the whoops and howls that, say, some of Ohad [...]
Discipline Through “Decadance”
Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ohad Naharin’s “Decadance” (Photos by Richard B Goode) Last night, after a patchy dress rehearsal/opening to its winter season last Wednesday, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet presented a one-night-only reprise of their popular fall production of Ohad Naharin’s “Decadance.” The work is essentially a review of excerpts selected by Mr. [...]
Coup de Comments
Holy fuck. This weekend, C.C.’s comments went off the hinges. First, and foremost, C.C. nemesis and Chief Dance Critic at The New York Times, ALASTAIR MACAULAY, found us and sent in this very civil comment regarding our post about his review of Reggie Wilson’s “Accounting for Customs.” Hot damn! We’ve made contact! And he totally [...]
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