Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in Review, Next Wave Art, and Between the Lines
Bouncing Off Clouds…
On Tuesday night, BAM opened its 25th Next Wave Festival (an event that has been totally snubbed by The New York Times–unless I missed something) to a modest audience in the Howard Gilman Opera House with Cloud Gate Dance [...]
Looks like LCF is taking more risks. George Benjamin’s “Into the Little Hill,” a 40 minute chamber opera for two singers based on the tale of the Pied Piper, sounds pretty hot.
But you know with Lincoln Center, what sounds like a good idea can turn terribly wrong faster than you can say Midsummer Night [...]
Here’s a fun little profile on Brooklyn based beat keepers, So Percussion. We kind of like their philosophy regarding the employment of unusual objects in the creation of music:
So Percussion is not aiming at genre-busting, [ensemble member Jason] Treuting explained, since “all the genres were busted a long time ago.” The group is focused now [...]
The NY Sun has been surprising us with its contempo-casual classical music writers. This is the second CAD we’ve given to them (the first going to Fred Kirshnit). Here’s our favorite part of Jay Nordlinger’s preview of the Opera Marinsky Theatre’s upcoming Ring Cycle at Lincoln Center Festival:
One, brief note about the music (or [...]
Preview: Four Spanish Language Plays at the Lincoln Center Festival
In the debate over immigration, the arguments tend to reduce the immigrant reality to numbers and jobs. This myopia dehumanizes the millions of immigrants who, as people, offer more to culture than simply a body and an ability to work as a labor force. What most [...]
Preview: Elke Rindfleisch’s “Do I Know You?” at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg; Sunday, July 1, 7:30PM $10
Back in 2003, Elke Rindfleisch began working in a style that people have now come to know her by: a highly flexible and unexpectedly athletic facility applied to mostly abstract movement but never veering too far away [...]
Who didn’t have a poster of Mikhail Baryshnikov on their wall in 1986? He was like some kind of Glasnost superhero. Seriously, I had the life-size black and white poster, where the mesh top is bright green and you can see his package. But you know, Mom didn’t suspect anything.
Roslyn Sulcas previews [...]
Gia Kourlas previews a pretty serious Merce Cunningham exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Called “Invention: Merce Cunningham & Collaborators,” this exhibition combines archival relics (physical and aural documents) and some live performances.
Does anybody else hate the phrase “creature comforts”?
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