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 [...]
May 8, 2008
Categories: Art World, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Rail, Critics, Dance, Downtown, Museums . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Friday night we stopped by DNA for Laura Peterson’s “Electrolux,” reviewed in The Times by Gia Kourlas. Our very own RT will actually be reviewing this for The Brooklyn Rail, so all we can say now is, it was def worth checking out.
Saturday afternoon we hit the replay of the Met’s simulcast of Peter Grimes [...]
March 31, 2008
Categories: BAM, Blogs, Classical Music, Critics, Dance, Downtown, NY Times, New Music, Pop Culture, The Met (Opera) . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Dance Review: Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!” @ DTW
There are gaps in Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!,” which had a reprise mounting last week at Dance Theater Workshop, having first run at P.S. 122 last spring. The work, a kind of anthropological rumination on human culture, uses theatricality to isolate activities from their real-world, analogous contexts, and [...]
March 25, 2008
Categories: DTW, Dance, Downtown, Editorial, Rant, Review . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 6 Comments
Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center Co-Present
JONAH BOKAER
The Invention Of Minus One
March 12-16, 2008
7:30PM
Abrons Arts Center:
466 Grand Street (@ Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
General Admission:
$15.00 (Danspace Members $10.00)
Reservations:
212-352-3101
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/27171
March 12, 2008
Categories: Chez Bushwick, Dance, Downtown, To Do . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Earl Dax Presents
THE NICK HALLETT SONGBOOK
Joe’s Pub - 425 Lafayette Street
Saturday, March 1 at 9:30 PM
Tickets $20 (Or, use code JPTIXA2 for $5 off!!!)
CLICK FOR TIX
February 29, 2008
Categories: Downtown, New Music, To Do . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 1 Comment
Music Review: Matmos @ The Stone
I remember the first time I watched electronic performance. It was at The Knitting Factory in 2000. A friend of mine had brought me. And I was amazed that a crowd of people had turned up to watch two guys…DJ. Well, they weren’t just playing one club song after the [...]
February 26, 2008
Categories: Bjork, Classical Music, Downtown, New Music, Pop Music . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Cynical Dance Review Written In Internal Commentary: Meg Stuart/Philipp Gehmacher “Maybe Forever” @ DTW
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January 31, 2008
Categories: DTW, Dance, Downtown, Review . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 6 Comments
Here is a link to the first essay I contributed for Chez Bushwick’s “Force Majeure” series, as posted on Chez Bushwick’s new blog, Notes On A Vanguard, hosted on Doug Fox’s Great Dance.
It should be pointed out that, while I did not review this performance on Counter Critic, I did jump to its defense when [...]
January 25, 2008
Categories: Blogs, Brooklyn, Chez Bushwick, Critics, Dance, Downtown . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Dance Review: Miguel Gutierrez and The Powerful People, “Everyone”
(Photo by Alex Escalante)
Miguel Gutierrez must know he’s doing God’s Work, in terms of dance. That is to say, his dance works, if he continues to make them as he has been, will probably never draw the whoops and howls that, say, some of Ohad Naharin’s dances [...]
January 15, 2008
Categories: DTW, Dance, Downtown, Review . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 1 Comment
We start off with Jennifer Dunning’s harsh on Fresh Tracks
Then Elizbeth A. Harris reports on a shot-on-the-streets film version of Jerome Robbin’s “Opus Jazz,” coming to you via NYCB dancers Ellen Bar and Sean Suottzi and director Ariel Schulman
Claudia La Rocco has some words for Prometheus Dance’s political mishit and uncredited projections
Then, L. Ro gets [...]
January 7, 2008
Categories: Critics, DTW, Dance, Downtown, Film, Lincoln Center, Time(s) To Dance, Uptown . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 1 Comment