Recommend: Tony Orrico @ Dance Theater Workshop

September 1, 2010 · Posted by The Urgent Artist ·
Need something to do tonight? Of course you do. It’s not like you live in NYC and are always always busy….oh. Well, regardless of your previous intentions, plan on stopping by Dance Theater Workshop tonight or tomorrow night to check this out: Dance Theater Workshop presents Tony Orrico in the world premiere of Penwald: 4: [...]

Live Stream of Tony Orrico

August 31, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
Watch Tony Orrico’s live drawing installation live online here. Broadcast starts in 10 minutes!!

Time Out New York and This Week in New York Pick Tony Orrico!

August 30, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
Gia Kourlas and Mark Rifkin agree, Tony Orrico’s live drawing installation happening this week is the place to be! Check out their listings here: Time Out New York This Week in New York Tony Orrico August 31 - Sep 2 5 - 9pm Dance Theater Workshop Lobby

Thought/Process

August 25, 2010 · Posted by The Urgent Artist ·
and why Wendy Perron couldn’t be more wrong Ever since our premiere of 90 ways to wake from drowning has closed, i’ve been thinking.  As Lillie will tell you, I’m always thinking – mind constantly churning like some mix between a hamster’s wheel, particle orbit, and a blender – but the last few months have [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Faye Driscoll

August 17, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP presents Faye Driscoll in the return engagement of There is so much mad in me September 22 - 25 at 7:30pm New York, NY, August, 17 - Dance Theater Workshop, the preeminent U.S. based center for contemporary dance and performance, presents Faye Driscoll in a return engagement of There is so much mad in me. After a week of sold out shows this past spring, Faye Driscoll’s There is so much mad in me returns to Dance Theater Workshop for four nights only. An examination of shifting states of consciousness as choreography, There is so much mad in me, asks how we feel and ...

PRESS RELEASE:Raimund Hoghe with Faustin Linyekula

August 5, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP and FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival co-present Raimund Hoghe with Faustin Linyekula in the New York premiere of Sans-titre Sep 16 - 18 at 7:30pm New York, NY, August 5, 2010 - Dance Theater Workshop, the preeminent U.S. based center for contemporary dance and performance, and FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival present Raimund Hoghe with Faustin Linyekula in Sans-titre. The enigmatic German maker/performer Raimund Hoghe returns to Dance Theater Workshop after his sold-out, critically acclaimed U.S. debut in 2009. Sans-titre marks a unique partnership between Hoghe and the Congo’s rising star Faustin Linyekula, who also returns to Dance Theater Workshop after his celebrated Festival of Lies ...

PRESS RELEASE: Tony Orrico

August 4, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP presents Tony Orrico in the World Premiere of Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing Live Drawing Aug 31 - Sep 2, 5 - 9pm Exhibition Ongoing from Sep 2 New York, NY, August 4, 2010 - Dance Theater Workshop, the preeminent U.S. based center for contemporary dance and performance, presents Tony Orrico in the world premiere of Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing. With both a live drawing and installation component Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing will be on view in it’s completion in the Dance Theater Workshop Lobby beginning September 2nd. Tony Orrico uses the span of his arms, bilateral movement, and alternating variables ...

Season Buzz!

August 2, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
Culturebot “DTW announced its 2010-2011 season and it is a doozy! “  Read the Post The New York Times, Arts Briefly “The lineup includes a collaboration between the German dance maker and performer Raimund Hoghe and Faustin Linyekula of Congo; new work by Richard Move, who will recreate a 1963 interview with Martha Graham; and the French choreographer Alain Buffard’s “Les Inconsolés,” a work set to Schubert and Throbbing Gristle.” Read the article

The Process of Blogging about Blogging Your Process

July 27, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
In a recent blog article on the Dance Magazine website, Wendy Perron considers her frustrations toward younger choreographers who keep running blog entries during the developmental stages of their work. Ms. Perron stresses her concern that blogging one’s creative process ultimately hinders the quality of said process– influencing the way one creates a piece in thinking too much about how to describe it later on. She turns to a quote from Igor Stravinsky, hoping young artists understand the importance of “groping for what comes next.” It is the explaining of process that is found the most troublesome– there should ...

World Dance Alliance Concert Review

July 26, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
Drifting through the world salad By Elizabeth Zimmer Friday night’s WDA concert, which sticks in my mind as being a study in floaty white things, opened with a dramatic production out of Taiwan, strongest as a piece of visual art with understated movement motifs. Wen-jinn Luo’s 2009 work, An Independent Sleep, performed by the Scarecrow Contemporary Dance Company, was essentially a video rendering of a poem by Emily Dickinson, “A Long Long Sleep,” projected in calligraphic script on the paper-covered stage floor. The surface was bumpy; I guessed, correctly, that a body lay under the strips of paper. A schematic sculptured ...

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