Since announcing my candidacy for the directorship of New York City Opera, my team has worked hard and tirelessly to flesh out a not-so-short list of nominees for the proposed para-advisory board that will help me reshape the future of New York City Opera.
We have cast a wide net in order to ensure that every [...]
The Not So Short List
To Do: Christian Rizzo and I-Fang Lin (TONIGHT)
If, like C.C., your head is exploding with all the political chatter bouncing around the TV news and the interweb, then hightail it tonight to Christian Rizzo and I-Fang Lin’s untitled dance piece at the Center for Performance Research (CPR), the joint venture between John Jasperse and Jonah Bokaer.
Girlz, I-Fang Lin’s cool demeanor, delicate precision, [...]
Just Sing…Sing A Song
C.C.’s got song on the brain, probably because of her own immersion in the stuff, with three performances coming up in the next 10 days all involving songs of hers (er…well, one of the performances was last night at the opening of the new Galapagos! I may blog about that whole experience later. But quickly, [...]
Our cheatin’ heart
Hey, y’all! (a la Brit)
So, I know some of you think I ain’t been writin’ recently. But t’aint true! I just been writin’ somewheres else.
Check these dance reviews over at The Brooklyn Rail:
First, Neal Medlyn and Jack Ferver queer it up at The New Museum…
Whether we’re post-gay, post-AIDS, post-Will & Grace, or blindly drifting in [...]
Know When To Say When
Yo yo. So, it’s not usually my style to single out dances for being, well, bad. I usually amp up the bitchiness when something thinks it’s way better than it is. I try not to kick something when it’s down. But after Tuesday night…at The Kirov, it finally occurred to me that there is this [...]
Ann Liv Young: First Responder
A loyal reader sent in this email about an event that took place at the opening of the Center for Performance Research…
OMG, C.C.!
Do you believe what happened Saturday night? I’m still recovering.
I’m hoping you’ll post my account of events, even though I‘m sure you’ll do your own.
Anyway…
So WTF did you think of Ann Liv Young’s [...]
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 [...]
Jowitt on Jasperse; And some elaboration on why talking about money in art is lame
Deborah Jowitt’s review just came in through the V.V. At least someone out there, other than, you know, US, had something nice to say about Misuse.
Jowitt does a lot of “describing,” as per norm with her. The key factor is that she manages to move on from the statistical smoke screen, and is able to [...]
Jasperse Redux
I know y’all just can’t get over John Jasperse Day, which, it should be noted was our busiest day ever here at C.C.!
Here’s a positive review of Misuse by Tobi Tobias (the other T.T. critic) that originally ran in Bloomberg, but we read on his her Arts Journal blog.
He’s She’s über-poetic, maybe a little over [...]
Performa Doesn’t Think NY Dance is Performance, or Art
It’s still John Jasperse Day!
Claudia La Rocco comments on the bizarre absence of NY choreographers from Performa 07’s matrix-like schedule in her ArtsBeat coverage of the second installment of the bi-annual festival. She also gives her own two cents about Misuse:
On an unrelated note, I was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [Wednesday] to see [...]
