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, [...]
Trisha Brown: Gimme Something To Believe In
Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company @ The Joyce
(Photo Credit: Montclair State University/Mike Peters 2007 – “I Love My Robots”)
This review is going to be difficult to write, not because I can’t find anything to say, but because I know what I’m going to say goes against four decades of critical praise [...]
THE 2007 COUNTER CRITIC AWARDS OF THE YEAR AWARDS
We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
