Here’s more evidence of the campaign to oust atonality from the concert music scene. Bernard Holland reviews a concert of new piano music at Greenwich House. He writes:
…something seemed to be whispering in my ear that the Dark Ages of postwar atonality were over and tentative reconnections to the past were under way.
To call post-war [...]
Don’t Need No Hateration
PostDRAMATIC Stress Syndrome
A cute, single paragraph appeared yesterday in the Theater section of The Times online. The headline is “Speechless Actors Roam London Stage.” The piece is listed as “Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder.” The paragraph concerns a current London staging of Austrian writer Peter Handke’s The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, in which, reportedly, [...]
DUmb Critic Hack Award: Feingold, generally
Michael Feingold is starting to wear. Can anyone get all the way through one of his rambling missives? I mean, all the way through. No skimming.
It’s just, for The Voice, his voice is sounding laconic and curmudgeonly. Not at all like the streetwise rag that isn’t afraid to drop an f-bomb now and then. Take [...]
Them’s Fightin’ Words
THE FIRST EVER: MEGA DOUCHE
It’s pretty rare these days that one critic will call out another critic for his/her work. Well, okay, except for here at Counter Critic. So how awesomely surprised were we when we found out that hacky old retard with an Arts Journal blog, John Perreault, sent a flaming bag of shit [...]
Time(s) To Dance: Definitely Not Rated-R Edition
Find out how to actually make money off dance in Gia Kourlas’ review of Esse Aficionado at The Joyce Soho. (And it’s just as whorish as you think)
Roslyn Sulcas totally feels us, and therefore encourages The Kitchen to GET OVER THE 60’s (or 60s) after seeing Dance and Process. (But for realz, Roz is right [...]
RoS Remainders
So, just to tighten up some loose ends…
Here’s Deborah Jowitt’s review of the Rainer drainer. She obviously has some pretty strong loyalties to the era (and I’m sure, to some of the artists). There’s only one real criticism, but in the same breath, it sounds like she tries to take a stab at…our protest to [...]
Watch out, 60s: Here come the 70s
In a blazingly sycophantic review/profile/editorial, Deborah Jowitt, celebrating five decades of writing for The Village Voice, lionizes Douglas Dunn and the 70s in much the same way that has befallen the 1960s in recent dance/performance art discussions.
I feel less of a need to harsh on the 70s, since that decade has never had much of [...]
Liebestodt: Performa 07, “Grand Finale”
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 [...]
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 [...]
Oh Yes We Did!
C.C. makes a New York Times debut!
So we’ve been following L. Ro.’s ArtsBeat coverage of Performa 07, as you know. And we were moved, for various reasons, to address some…concerns we’ve been having. Long story short, we posted this hot comment, and they actually published it! It totally relates to our last post. [...]
