Management for downtown dance-theater/performance artists (we really may need to just make up a term that covers this; suggestions? I guess Na’vi is already taken…) is not a simple thing. It’s obscure, there is very little money in it, and in a financial climate that threatens both artist funding and the capital that goes into [...]
About The Bacchae
I know it’s been a while since I threw down a bona-fide review around these parts. So I’m breaking silence with some thoughts on The Bacchae, which wraps up its run The Public Theater’s Shakespeare In The Park this week. (Warning: this may fall more under “rant”.)
It’s also been a while since I had been [...]
Kanye Drops In On PS122 Songfest
So things got extra hot and spicy last night at PS122. Apparently Kanye West dropped in on “Why Won’t You Let Me Be Great!!!”, Neal Medlyn and Brendan Kennedy’s tribute to the pop culture demagogue’s latest album 808s & Heartbreak.
MTV reports on the meeting of the auteur with the motley assemblage of downtown artists, giving [...]
And dream of Ann Liv Young…
For a while now I’ve been having–every so often–dreams that feature Ann Liv Young. Well, three dreams, to be exact.
These started, as far as I can surmise, shortly after my first writing on Ms. Young’s work.
The central anxiety of these dreams–and they are always anxious dreams–balances precariously on a paradigmatic axis of whether or not [...]
A WAY FORWARD: A rescue plan for the New York City Opera
Ryan Tracy for the Directorship of the New York City Opera presents
A WAY FORWARD: A Rescue Plan for the New York City Opera
Friday, January 9, 2009
Table of Contents:
Overture: Introductions
A Brief State of the New York City Opera
The First Eighteen Months
Need for Fiscal/Administrative Transparency
Limit of Term
Administrative Re-Organization
The Board of Directors
Creative Advisory Board
A Home for New York [...]
The Not So Short List
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 [...]
C.C. for New York City Opera Directorship
Counter Critic for the Directorship of The New York City Opera
“A Key-Change We Need”
[Update: WATCH VIDEO]
Preamble
I hereby announce my candidacy to assume directorship of The New York City Opera.
In these uncertain times, artistic organizations need stalwart leadership that will provide vision, direction, and most importantly, thought that isn’t lodged in the dark recesses of somebody’s [...]
“The Christ in Me” and “The Bagwell in Me”: A comparative analysis
Below, you will find a post that I prepared weeks ago but didn’t get around to finalizing. It’s a revisit to Ann Liv Young’s “The Bagwell in Me.” It’s a kind of mega-rant, full of twists and turns, perversities, theories, doubts, and, as always, criticisms. I know this makes me officially obsessed with her work, [...]
A Measure of Change: Or, What “Sleeping With The Enemy” and Goat Island’s “Lastmaker” have in common with the election of Barack Obama
If this election cycle has had any single theme that has dominated all possible themes, it was without a doubt: CHANGE. Not only did Barack Obama’s campaign coin it and stick to it, but John McCain’s campaign co-opted it in an effort to portray the McCain/Palin ticket as the real agents of change. It is [...]
The Cunt In Me
The Cunt In Me, or, “Sir, you are my property”
When the music gets loud, all bets are off. Be afraid.
This is but one of the things you can predict in Ann Liv Young’s latest full-evening piece, now being tolerated at The Kitchen, a venue that has welcomed back Ms. Young’s regard-no-limits performance work for another [...]
