Kissing is in the air, and not just because it’s spring and my allergies are attacking my face to death. No. Led by Tino Sehgal‘s “This Progress,” which opened at The Guggenheim back in January and featured “Kiss”, where exclusively male-female couples made out on the rotunda of the museum for like, all day, kissing [...]
New Kid On The Block
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 [...]
SHAMELESS HOLIDAY SELF-PROMOTION: But what’s new around here?
Sorry that the C.C. vibe has atrophied in recent to a mere drizzle of self-promotion. But I HAVE to! “It’s in my nature.” So without further apology… First: I’ve had the immense honor (and enormous pleasure) to assemble the opening musical medley for the illustrious, lustrous, and lustful Justin Bond’s “Christmas Spells” opening tomorrow (Wed, [...]
REGARDING ART, PERFORMANCE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CONSENT
Wednesday night, I attended Steven Cohen’s presentation of film works at CPR in Williamsburg. During one of the brief discussion breaks—led by a becostumed Cohen—one audience member prefaced his question by stating that “the audience inevitably becomes part of your work.” The assumption went unchallenged. It struck a particularly live chord for me, as throughout [...]
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, [...]
NY Press: MERCE @ MOTHER
Merce at Mother: Ryan Tracy remembers when he first set eyes on the legendary choreographer I visited New York City for the first time in my life in February of 2000. I was 23, queer and single and craved a more culturally enriching life. After undergrad, I had been hiding out in Southern California for [...]
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Merce Cunningham: 1919-2009 UPDATES: Here’s a piece I wrote for The New York Press. L. Ro. has a post up at WNYC. According to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company website, the studio will be accepting visitors until 9:00pm tonight. Also, Merce’s obit by Alastair Macaulay in The Times.
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 [...]
TO DO: DTW Lobby Talks
Jun 9 at 7:30pm Dance Theater Workshop 219 West 19th Street, New York, NY Organized by Chase Granoff “As the internet continues to develop and mature into a powerful platform for communication, marketing, networking, and criticism, we will look at how these technologies have influenced dance. How has this development challenged and changed the landscape [...]
Intervention (aka, Save me Trisha Brown)
Trisha… TRISH! We don’t have time for this. That’s seriously how I felt as I trudged through the show on Thursday night. You know, I wasn’t even going to write about it, until I saw it. And you know there’s a problem when a work inspires you to write about it out of a need [...]
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