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 [...]
Life just got a little sweeter. Times dance critic, Claudia La Rocco (aka L. Ro.) has been making guest spots on radio WNYC, talking about all kinds of whatnot while bringing her crazy awesome genius to listeners everywhere. Well, at least in the greater New York City area. That’s still a lot.
At any rate, check [...]
C.C. would like to give a shout out to two artists who recently bore the brunt of our authoritative battery. It definitely requires balls of steel to take a hit from the Counter Critic and still be able to walk it off and come back to leave a comment. And for that level of endurance, [...]
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 [...]
L. Ro signs out on Performa 07 with a pit stop at Micky D’s and some more stern words for RoS
Then she leaves Complexions dry eyed but with another sports metaphor under her belt
Alastair Macaulay (where the F has that bitch been?) brings his awkward handling of racial identity to Stravinsky and Balanchine’s “Agon” (Maybe [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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