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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Cats / Celeb / Dance The Saturday Morning News
Posted by Dominic Holden on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM
It's Saturday, you guys! Can you believe it?
The Wictims Win: President Obama bows to the American Catholic church by withdrawing the White House's plan to require private employers (including religious organizations, like all those Catholic hospitals) to provide health insurance that covers contraception. Instead, insurance companies will be required to provide that coverage free of charge. The compromise with Catholics may seem like a miracle, considering that Obama is a Muslim. But the red-wing blogs, bloviators, and email alerts were just getting going. It's hard to imagine Obama being able to comfortably skirt this issue while seeking reelection to the White House. Here's the NYT quoting Obama explaining that it was largely a political calculation:
“After the many genuine concerns that have been raised over the last few weeks, as well as, frankly, the more cynical desire on the part of some to make this into a political football, it became clear that spending months hammering out a solution was not going to be an option,” Mr. Obama said on Friday.
My TCW: The religious liberty and conscience argument being raised by the Catholic church, which is ostensibly worried about paying for birth control, (and legislators who are expressing concern about florists and photographers being forced to serve gay couples) has less to do with contraception and gay marriage, and more to do with a clever sleight of hand. No longer is the Catholic Church bullying women and LGBT people, in this framing, they're the victims being forced to forgo their religious convictions. It's a trick and it's working.
Obama Budget: "Raise taxes on the rich and pump nearly $500 billion into new transportation projects over the next decade."
Yup: I'll take the jumper.
In Pressing Media Matters: Five of Murdcoch's people at the Sun tabloid were arrested for allegedly bribing bobbies. And in case you wondered: My worst nightmare is accidentally taking a job that requires me to write this sort of story.
Less Bad: State finds an extra $200 million to shore up $1.5 billion budget shortfall.
WHAT?!!! There is no more news.
I've reached the point in my life where I'm strong enough to say this: I really like Wham!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Film / Dance Pina: In Which the Man Who Made Wings of Desire Pays Tribute to a Choreographer Who Will Explode Your Brain. In 3-D!
Posted by David Schmader on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Wim Wenders' Pina opens Friday at the Cinerama, and Jen Graves holds forth on its 3-D brilliance here.
Also, on Friday February 17, SIFF will be hosting a special screening of Pina featuring Wim Wenders, who'll introduce the film and participate in an onstage Q&A afterwards moderated by Spectrum Dance Theater's Donald Byrd. Tickets to this special screening are $30 and can be purchased here.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Dance Madonna's Halftime Show, Cont.
Posted by Eli Sanders on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:00 AM
Did I see both a slip and a slackline starting at around 3:40?
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Theater / Dance Tonight, Salt Horse Dances for 12 Hours Straight
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:31 PM
- Salt Horse
It can be irritating when artists sell tickets to their own rehearsal/generating processes. But 1) with over 20 musicians and dancers using Washington Hall as a playground, the 12-hour marathon could produce some worthwhile spectacle, and 2) Salt Horse is a pleasantly baffling dance company with a weird, weird imagination. Their Man on the Beach was like stepping through the looking glass, with a whistling teakettle, an enormous sandpiper with human legs, a writhing creature made of black plastic tubing, and a person getting severely beaten by birds with aluminum baseball bats.
Their Titan Arum pushed even further, into an invented mythology with a disturbing queen, lots of fabric, music by Stuart Demptster, and a tiger.
Their pieces are baffling, in part, because they feel so complete and impenetrable in their strangeness. Each one is like an oddly shaped, ornately decorated box that you can admire from the outside and only wonder what it was built to contain. For Salt Horse fans, tonight's 12-hour play—which you can drop in and out of—will be an unusual opportunity to lift the lid and take a peek.
Performers include Corrie Befort, Beth Graczyk, Mark Haim, Angelina Baldoz, Stuart Dempster, Cherdonna (of Cherdonna and Lou), and a bunch of others. Details here.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Dance Attention Dance Fans in the Pacific Northwest: Here Are Two Things of Which You Should Be Aware
Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Thing 1: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is coming to Tacoma's Pantages Theatre on February 11.
This group of 15 male dancers posing as Russian ballerinas brings a new spin to classical ballet. The “Trocks” perform with dazzling technique and outrageous humor. The male dancers perform en travesti; performing roles usually reserved to females, wearing tutus and dancing en pointe.
Born and bred in Off-Off-Broadway loft spaces, the Trocks' patented combo of campy humor and hardcore ballet skill has amazed audiences all over the world. Full info on the one-night-only Tacoma show here.
Thing 2: Girl Walk // All Day, an indie dance film screening Feb 11 at Neumos and described by its producer thusly:
....an exuberant feature-length dance music film shot in the streets and public spaces of New York. The entire film is set to the soundtrack All Day, the most recent album by the mashup musician Girl Talk and follows three improvisational dancers as they embark on an urban adventure across NYC over the course of one long day.
Ticket info here, preview video below.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Theater / Dance Dancing with the Czars
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:36 PM
The Russian-American Foundation in New York City would like me to tell you that children who aspire to plie at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy should get their skinny little selves over to Bellevue this Sunday for open auditions:
WHEN: SUNDAY, January 15, 2012
TIME: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM 9-14 (age group)
5:45 PM – 7:15 PM 15 years and older (age group)
WHERE: PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET - 13440 Northeast 16th Street, Bellevue, WA, 98005
How do you say "get it, gurl!" in Russian? (Skip to minute 4:00.)
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance A Few Questions for Saint Genet: A Kind of Critical Response
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- COURTESY LAWRIMORE PROJECT AND SAINT GENET
Now that the end of the year is here and I’m taking stock, I have a regret: I regret not writing about the new collective Saint Genet, the one risen from Implied Violence. I’ve loved Genius Award winners Implied Violence. Loved. I did not love Saint Genet. I was left with a bad taste, even.
At the time I saw the performance, I didn’t write anything because I only saw one of three parts of the series. That means that a caveat has to hang over this response. This is not a formal review.
But because Implied Violence has been such an important presence, and because Saint Genet involves largely the same group of super-charged performers, it’s worth raising a few questions that didn’t get raised in public discourse back then.
1. Why were the female performers so grossly underused?
2. Is the Jonestown massacre/cult an interesting reference point at this moment in history? Is Jean Genet? Which parts of their legacies are being drawn on, and why?
3. Is there enough irony in the world—or even in the art world—to make an image of white-male-artist-as-cult-leader interesting?
4. Almost the entire event was performed to the song “Black Baby.” Jim Jones also used the song. But what is the history of the song? What is Saint Genet’s racial analysis?
5. What is the relationship between “Black Baby” and the hip hop that blasted on the sound system the second the performance was over, almost like a victory song, a release?
I don’t know the answers to these questions. That's what 2012's for.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Booze / Economy / Dance Strip Maul: Nine Strip Clubs in 48 Hours in America's Porniest City, By Kelly O
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Kelly O
It's Thanksgiving weekend. In honor of gluttony—and after not one but two Thanksgiving dinners—my friend, who we'll call "Dan Kensington," and I rent a car and drive from Seattle to Portland. I'm usually loyal to the foul, retro-cheap The Palms Motel on North Interstate Avenue—but because it's a holiday, I book a room at the stupid-expensive Vintage Plaza downtown. As we turn right on Broadway, we pass Mary's Club, and its neon lights wink at us: blink-blink, blink-blink! Kensington admits he's never been to a strip club in Portland.
Every time I've been to Mary's (the mother of ALL strip clubs since 1965), it's packed—full of rowdy laughter and good-time drunkards. There's a $2 cover at the door and no drink minimum. We sit at the last open table and order two double vodka sodas. The big bearded guy behind us tells a leather-clad hesher that he's in the band Red Fang. The crowd is a mix of mostly twenty- and thirtysomethings, lots of couples. An impossibly tall, classically beautiful woman with a tattoo of cello f-holes on her lower back picks out a hiphop song from the onstage jukebox. Her booty clap is so refined that each one of her round, muscular butt cheeks operates independently. Kensington gasps at her upside-down pole maneuvers. Some guy sitting front stage yells, "It's my birthday!" She leans down, gives him a healthy birthday motorboating with her near-perfect, implant-free double-Ds, and slips off the stage, falling directly on top of him. Boobs still in his face, both fall backward to the floor. With absolute grace, she climbs back onstage. People applaud, nobody laughs, and everyone tips.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Arts / City / Film / Dance $50,000 Each to Takamori, Longley, and Byrd
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:26 PM
Congratulations are in order to ceramicist Akio Takamori, filmmaker James Longley (already a Stranger and MacArthur Genius), and choreographer Donald Byrd. The three Seattle artists are among this year's 50 USA Fellows, each of whom receives $50,000 (making the award one of the biggest out there).
Roger Shimomura, another artist with many close ties to Seattle despite living in Kansas, is a winner this year, and so is Carolee Schneemann, whose wild, anarchic, terrific retrospective is currently at the Henry Art Gallery.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Theater / Dance Opening Tonight: Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:38 AM
Seattle hasn't seen much of its choreographer Zoe Scofield and her design partner Juniper Shuey lately—during the past few years, they've spent much of their time doing residencies (McDowell Colony and others), performing in prestigious out-of-town festivals (Jacob's Pillow, TBA in Portland), and winning awards from the crowned heads of Europe (including the Princess Grace Award).
Tonight, the zoe | juniper company comes home to On the Boards to present the magnum opus they've been working on for years: A Crack in Everything, which studies The Oresteia (the old Greek story of multi-generational murder within one family) and what it says about cause and effect, violence and revenge.
Seattle has been waiting to see this piece for years.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Science / Theater / Dance My Sister, the Neuroscientist
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM
My little sister—the brains in the family—sent an email just now about some recent articles in an online neuro journal that she described as "bizarro," but diverting for a Friday afternoon. (She also questioned the science behind some of them, but said these were a "fun diversion from the usual stuff I see.") And so I bequeath them to you, Friday-afternoon Sloggers.
Why some people like dance more than others:
In the present study, we address how observers’ esthetic evaluation of dance is related to their perceived physical ability to reproduce the movements they watch.
A new theory of contagious yawning:
Across conditions yawning occurred at lower ambient temperatures, and the tendency to yawn during each season was associated with the length of time spent outside prior to being tested. Participants were more likely to yawn in the milder climate after spending long periods of time outside, while prolonged exposure to ambient temperatures at or above body temperature was associated with reduced yawning.
And magic! (The neuroscientist writes: "This is becoming kind of a hot field in neuro research—tackles attention, eye movements, reasoning, etc.")
We investigated a magic effect consisting of a coin “vanish” (i.e., the perceptual disappearance of a coin after a simulated toss from hand to hand). Previous research has shown that magicians can use joint attention cues such as their own gaze direction to strengthen the observers’ perception of magic... [but] ...we conclude that social misdirection is redundant and possibly detracting to this very robust sleight-of-hand illusion.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Theater / Dance Seattle Theater Group Swallows "Black Nativity"
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Though Intiman's corpse has shown small stirrings of reanimation—they hired a young consulting artistic director and are thinking about what, if anything is next—they've surrendered their popular annual show, Black Nativity. Last year, Intiman and STG co-produced the holiday hay-maker based on Langston Hughes's Christmas poem at the Moore Theatre. This year, STG has announced they'll be producing it on their own.
In other news, Benjamin Millepied is retiring from the New York City Ballet to focus on his choreography (which Seattle has seen at PNB). He's 34 years old and probably most famous for his choreography work for the film Black Swan.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Arts / Music / Visual Art / Theater / Dance Saturday You Have Plans
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM
The fact that Cornish College of the Arts is getting a new president—Dr. Nancy J. Uscher (here's an interview with her)—is neither good nor bad at this point. We just don't know yet what she'll do.
But the celebration in honor of her arrival looks great. My favorite part of Inaugural Weekend is the totally free and open to the public "colloquium" (we need a better word) Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm.
In the morning session, you can learn to become a better music-listener with jazz prof Jovino Santos Neto, draw comics with Ellen Forney, take a quick workshop in "modern dance for the uninitiated" (do it), or get familiar with the Javanese percussion orchestra, called the gamelan.
Then at 11:15 am comes "When One Plus One Equals More (Or Less) Than Two: Artistic Collaboration Now," a conversation about creative collective work with folks from Degenerate Art Ensemble, Implied Violence, SuttonBeresCuller, and the Susie Lee Ensemble, moderated by curator Robin Held. Why do so many artists want to work together?
Here is a gamelan sample for you to put your eyes on. (From the comments, it looks as if you should avoid smoking the smoke while watching gamelan.) See you Saturday!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Visual Art / Dance How Do You Swim Your List?
Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Ying Zhou, drawn on (medium: light, computer, projection) by Keeara Rhodes, in Susie Lee's Swimming the List.
It's a performance, for three nights only, in dance, music, and technology, in homage to the two types of lists that build up simultaneously as we go, writes creator Susie Lee:
One is for the routine obligations where we buy, drive, cook, pay, work, pick up, and start over again. The other is for the creative obligations; we observe, extract, mutate, expand, deviate, and linger.
In this performance, the journey of a single routine day takes place on and through one woman's body—dancer Ying Zhou, with drawings of light appearing on her moving body by Keeara Rhodes, all organized by Lee, former Stranger Genius winner.
Tickets here.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Visual Art / Theater / Dance TBD by SBC at OTB
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:19 PM
While Jen seems befuddled by her experience at To Be Determined by SuttonBeresCuller at On the Boards—she uses the adjectives "dull," "pointless," and "awful," but also writes that she "began to feel that it was me, not the 'event,' that was the problem"—I was delighted.
Jen describes the work (with photos) here, but in brief: SuttonBeresCuller took up residency in On the Boards, tore up all the theater seats and smashed a wooden airplane into them, roped together a huge number of banal objects (stuffed animals, VCRs, working televisions, a working electric fireplace, etc.) into a precarious-looking katamari*, built a trailer home made of lath, and invited a bunch of performers they found on Craigslist to do shows (magic, folksongs, makeovers, Bollywood dancing, hula-hoop dancing) throughout the space and throughout the night.
On the night I attended, people kept using four words that start with "c": Craigslist, context, culture, and Culture. The big-c/little-c culture conversation kept happening as people tried to calibrate their relationships to the performers, asking whether an unknown rapper or a guy playing "Hallelujah" on the acoustic guitar (culture) "deserved" to exist on the same stage that had seen Diamanda Galas, Romeo Castellucci, and Laurie Anderson (Culture)**.
One acquaintance from the theater scene (who has performed on the OtB stage) wondered aloud whether the performers "realized what an important theater they were in." Others were more nuanced in their conversation, noting their sometimes condescending reactions and talking about whether their instincts to privilege some categories of performance over others made them a) discerning or b) just narrow-minded, pretentious jerks. "Think about all the esoteric stuff you've seen on this stage that's left you cold," someone else said. "Is that esoteric stuff necessarily superior to a Bollywood dancer?"
Tellingly, most of the people who got tangled up in whether there's a difference between culture and Culture were on the younger side.***
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Crime / Cats / Booze / Drugs / International / Genius / Drunk / Dance The Stranger Genius Award Party Is This Friday!!!
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM
Here's some weirdly placed cameras that do a decent job of catching what an absolute blast Wild Orchid Children are live:
They're fun live in a way that their records don't always convey. And then guess what else we did? We got Wheedle's Groove to headline! They don't even sound anything like each other! We're Crazy! What's more you ask? What's more is we have the venerable OC Notes deejaying as well as Emerald City Soul Club. There is so much dance for your ass at this party that you won't be able to move it for a week. All of this for only $7. YOU ARE STEALING IT. All the pertinent info for the party is right here. Buy your tickets right now and let's do this thing.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Dance / Olympia ACLU Wants to Smother the Death Penalty in Its Sleep with a Pillow (Shhhh.)
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Updated with comments from state Senator Adam Kline (D-37).
It's no secret that the ACLU, bastion of socialist depravity that it is, opposes the death penalty. In fact, since 2009, the ACLU of Washington has unsuccessfully lobbied for legislation to kill Washington state’s beloved, 107-year-old tradition of putting people to death for crimes they've been deemed guilty of committing.*
And this year, the organization is stepping up its game: they’re currently hiring a death penalty campaign coordinator—in conjunction with the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty—to do educational outreach about the death penalty and, hopefully, successfully push through legislation that would replace the state's death penalty with life in prison (without the possibility of parole). Doug Honig, a spokesman for the ACLU, says that the climate is right for such a change: other states, like Illinois, have overturned their death penalty laws; people are more aware of the associated costs ("It's actually not true that it costs less to kill people than it is to keep them behind bars for life," Honig says); and, perhaps most importantly, the state is still broker than Siddhartha in prison.
“Legislators are having to make all sorts of draconian cuts,” Honig says. “Now is the perfect time to look at the cost benefit of the death penalty versus life in prison.”
*The state's current death penalty law was adopted in 1981 but the death penalty has been exercised in Washington since 1904, according to the Department of Corrections.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Death / City / Dance Remembering the Moment John T. Williams Lost His Life
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM
All photos by Kelly O
At 4:12 p.m. on August 30, the family of John T. Williams, along with tribal members, Mayor Mike McGinn, City Attorney Pete Holmes, representatives from the Seattle Police Department, stray tourists, and roughly 250 other people joined hands at the Waterfront Park boardwalk to loosely encircle two 40-foot totem poles and observed a moment of silence.
- Kelly O
The public two-hour memorial service featured tribal songs, dancing, speeches, and blessings for John and the totem poles carved in his memory by his brother, Rick. "John Williams had a right to life," city council member Bruce Harrell said to an applauding crowd. "He was not a model of traditional success but he was loved." Other city officials respectfully declined to speak at the event.
But most striking were the prayers offered by the checkered crowd. "I hope John is watching this with a beer in one hand and a knife in the other," said a shirtless man named Hank. "I hope he's happy and not being hassled for what he likes to do." It's a rare event that brings shirtless men together with sweating men in suits, tribal members in full regalia and members in street clothes with feathers sticking out of logoed baseball caps (and the occasional pirate hat), homeless men and street peddlers, all looking to pay their respects.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Dance City Arts Fest (Oct. 20-23) Single Day Tickets on Sale Now
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM
More here.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Theater / Dance Crowned by a Princess: Zoe Scofield and Olivier Wevers
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:52 AM
This year, both of the choreographers to win an award from the Princess Grace Foundation are Seattle artists—Zoe Scofield and Olivier Wevers. Margaret Mullin, a dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet, won too. They have all been invited to New York to receive their honors from Prince Albert II. (Insert they-let-him-out-of-his-can joke here.)
Congratulations to all. You can see Scofield's latest work at the upcoming TBA festival in Portland and this December at On the Boards.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Visual Art / Theater / Dance I Saw An Older Woman String Up A Younger Woman While Her Armpit Was Shaved
Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- SHAVE.
The final night of the fundraiser is Saturday. It involves the artist who calls herself Flatchestedmama. Details here.
I don't know what will happen, or whether it will be great. I know I like the space, and I like the chance-taking.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance During GiveBig Today, Consider GivingLittle
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:34 PM
John Murphy (whose small performance troupe the Anunnaki Group is included in GiveBig) makes this point on Facebook:
It is IMPORTANT to recognize that the people who are at a major disadvantage in this program are the smaller arts organizations who have less of an ability to get a piece of the pie in what is essentially a competition between david and goliath. Choose wisely, choose to help out the 501(c)3's that do not have the finances to afford a marketing division. Many small arts orgs in Seattle are falling behind for their relative piece of the matching.
GiveBig's whole list of orgs to donate to is here, with arts and culture specifically here. All the big players are there, and rumor has it that many asked their donors to wait until today to give, in order to maximize—which makes sense. But given that the spirit of this thing is leveraging the big (rich) to help the small (nonprofits), you might be inclined to consider leveling the playing field before the money pot is full at 7 tonight. Here are a few small, deserving shops I can recommend in art: Photographic Center Northwest, Pottery Northwest, Kirkland Arts Center, Jack Straw Foundation, Arts Corps, Path With Art, The Alliance for Pioneer Square, Northwest African American Museum.
And don't forget the happy hour starting at 4 at Vermillion to celebrate GiveBig in the arts!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Theater / Dance So, How'd You Like This Year's Northwest New Works at On the Boards?
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:43 PM
I'm still working on my review of this weekend, which was middling compared to past years. The highs were lower, the lows were higher. (But how about those icebergs and stalactites made of thousands of pieces of paper in the last piece by "aluminum siding & mattisonethemove"? I'm not crazy about their name, but the set and the way the dancers used pieces of paper in the way that b-boys use handkerchiefs—dropping and catching them in improbable ways—was diverting. On the other hand, I'm back to feeling grumpy about Jeppa Hall/Queen Shmooquan, who has lost me and won me and lost me again.)
Anyway, here's what one artist, who typically loves OtB, drew in my notebook last night after the main stage show:
I'm guessing that's a bad review. But maybe that's just my spermatophobia talking.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Arts / Visual Art / Dance The New Past of Giselle at PNB and What Makes An Art Form Dead Or Alive
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- Carlotta Grisi as Giselle in Paris, 1841.
Pacific Northwest Ballet's first-ever full production of the 170-year-old ballet classic Giselle—which closed yesterday, and was an austere, enthrallingly alien ballet experience compared to the typically overstuffed Romantic story ballet—was a first because it was a second.
It was specially, locally, painstakingly reconstructed from written notations taken down in Russia and Europe between 1842 and 1903, with blanks filled in by PNB choreographer/artistic director Peter Boal. Not being a ballet specialist, I have no way of judging the authenticity. (New York Times critic Alistair Macaulay praised it as a restorative tonic for a piece that had become slow and soupy over the last 30 years compared to the prior century-and-a-half.)
What mesmerized me were the steps themselves. They were simple, unshowy, very often entirely straight-legged—and mad difficult. What a different language for the post-Balanchine dancers of PNB. I imagine their bodies, early in the rehearsals, trying to revolt. I imagine it was very hard work, this piece. They did a gorgeous job.
Giselle also provided great fodder for the national Dance Critics Association conference, held in Seattle this weekend, themed around reconstruction, re-staging, and dance's whole conflicted relationship with the past.
Arts / Visual Art / Dance Court Rules Lap Dancing Not Art
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM
The dancers at "adult juice bar" Nite Moves have no "formal dance training."
Friday, June 10, 2011
Events / City / Homo / Dance Gay Pride 2011: This Man Wants to Teach You How to Dance
Posted by Kelly O on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:01 PM
- click to enlarge/photo: clayton Cubitt
Find out how, RIGHT HERE.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Theater / Dance Butoh Attack!
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Dear Degenerate Art Ensemble, Implied Violence, Daipan Butoh Collective, danse perdue/death posture, and Butoh-heads across the city (I know you're out there because you've been emailing me for the past day or so):
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance It Passed! 4Culture Survives
Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:43 PM
We may never know just exactly what happened behind the scenes, but: Cheers!
What's A Voter to Do If Not Contact Her Elected Representative?
Posted by Jen Graves at 1:04 PM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Monday, May 23, 2011
Look, I Want This Thing To Pass
Posted by Jen Graves at 2:54 PM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Thursday, May 19, 2011
4Culture Back on the Chopping Block
Posted by Jen Graves at 4:21 PM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
To Save 4Culture, Please Do This Now.
Posted by Jen Graves at 8:01 AM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Thursday, May 12, 2011
The Rush to Combine Five City Departments: Wise?
Posted by Jen Graves at 12:24 PM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
4Culture Might—MIGHT—Get Saved
Posted by Jen Graves at 1:59 PM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Aren't the British Supposed to Be All Pithy and Proper?
Posted by Eli Sanders at 6:00 AM in Dance
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
MC Bunny $ and the Drill Team Bumps You into Easter Weekend
Posted by Brendan Kiley at 4:53 PM in Theater / Dance
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Velocity Dance Center Announces Its New Executive Director: Tonya Lockyer
Posted by Brendan Kiley at 1:00 PM in Theater / Dance
Monday, April 18, 2011
Another Thoughtful Response to An Arts Supporter from a State Legislator, But This One a Democrat
Posted by Jen Graves at 2:01 PM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sen. Mark Schoesler's Thoughtful Response to Arts Advocates
Posted by Jen Graves at 12:40 PM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
The Sound of Indifference: 4Culture Is Lying On the Floor Bleeding To Death
Posted by Jen Graves at 11:54 AM in Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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