RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (Oh boy…)
The second round of the rock-em-sock-em performance art biennial known as Performa, ended Monday night in a self-immolating “Grand Finale” at the Hudson Theater in Times Square. The festival, which has made us all laugh, cry, pull out our hair, stress out way too much about our fashion sensibility, and [...]
Liebestodt: Performa 07, “Grand Finale”
Speaking of Pina…
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (We can’t stop…)
Merde!
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (I know…I know…)
Here’s to someone who knew how to choreograph for those of us in the balcony…
(And here’s the link to the AP obit in The Times.)
From The Horse’s Mouth
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (continued…still…)
So, C.C. was doing a little research on Yvonne Rainer and this whole RoS Perplexical, and we came upon this article in Artforum. In it, Rainer herself writes about the process of working on the piece. It’s there that Kourlas got the Robin-Williams-is-a-kinetic-genius info. It’s also there where [...]
Don’t Call It A Comeback
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (continued…)
So this review just came out today, but you know, it’s all about Yvonne Rainer’s RoS Indexical. And L. Ro. is not happy with Ms. Rainer or the staged riot she planted in half the audience:
It was the lowlight of a thoroughly dispiriting evening, akin to watching a revered athlete come [...]
Post Review Preview
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY!
(Photo of Xavier Le Roy by Vincent Cavaroc)
It’s always fun to look back at the in-print previews of performances once the glorious spectacles have found their ways on and off the stage. We rarely look back after the engagement has run its natural life course, from anticipated, to happening, to [...]
This One’s for the Children
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY!
The New York Times finds two ways to cover “The Rite of Spring Project,” the Berlin Philharmonic’s joint outreach venture with Carnegie Hall.
First, Jennifer Dunning gives a surprisingly surly report in the dance section. Her main objection is to the charminess of the whole affair, which involved a couple hundred New York [...]
Nothing to get upset about
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY!
Dance Review: Xavier Le Roy’s The Rite of Spring & Yvonne Rainer’s RoS Indexical
The Rite of Spring is arguably the most influential piece of classical music of the twentieth century. It also happens to be a ballet. That makes it somewhat of a shock that I have never seen a completely successful [...]
