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
Season begins this week with Tony Orrico!
August 30, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
Join us this week, Tuesday through Thursday 5 - 9 for Tony Orrico’s live drawing Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing.
protest flash mobs: boycott! boycott! workers rights are hot!
August 30, 2010 · Posted by Widening the I ·
Flash mobs have been getting no shortage of attention recently as a phenomenon. Frequently they’re being used to shill products (Nokia, MS Office 2010, seriously, we’re supposed to believe that people are so excited by new Microsoft products that they’re dancing in the streets?) or hype a TV show (Oprah, Glee). More appealing to me are those that celebrate the sheer joy of moving in a group (like the recent flash mobs organized by Dance/MetroDC) or that are being used to creatively call attention to an issue: the flash mob as protest. Here are three examples that ...
Artichoke Dance Company’s Human Mapping Project
August 29, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
It’s site-specific, environmentally conscious, historically reflective, and interactive! Artichoke Dance Company combines performance with ecological activism and volunteerism in a new project on New York shorelines, Your Planet: The Human Mapping Project. Director and choreographer Lynn Neuman collaborates with scientists and architects from the Urban Design Lab’s Plastic Trash Patch Project, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, to focus on one of New York’s greatest assets, its shoreline (there are over 600 miles of shoreline across the five boroughs). Performances, which are aligned with beach clean up days, sponsored by the American Littoral Society, bring awareness to the impact of human consumption ...
Natalia Osipova’s ethereal “Giselle”
August 28, 2010 · Posted by arts•meme ·
I met and briefly interviewed the phenomenal 24-year-old Bolshoi and ABT ballerina Natalia Osipova yesterday, in rehearsal for an upcoming performance in Orange County next January. She struck me as a magnificently moody Russian. Read my L.A. Times article here.
This Russian t.v. broadcast shows Osipova’s unearthly technique, particularly her jumps, and the exquisite way her arms frame her lovely face. Osipova’s partner is the South Dakota-born David Hallberg. I never before saw an Albrecht perform port de bras while doing foot batterie, as Hallberg does to tremendous effect at the beginning of this clip:
The bigness of the body
August 27, 2010 · Posted by Betwixt Thee and Me Let There Be Truth ·
If I’m honest, I feel like I’m in state of some degree of burnout right now. I know I’ll recover, but I just feel unable to read another thing (even as I read an article by Sondra Fraleigh on the correlation between Butoh and nature this morning), and my mind is hardly synthesizing all that I have read/done/researched this summer. I have ideas about dances that I want to make, but in general I am experiencing a persistent near-paralysis in my making. This morning in conversation with my friend/colleague/gaga-guru Maree ReMalia, I think I began to understand why:
This all started ...
Remembering 12 & A Giveaway!
August 27, 2010 · Posted by BlissChick ·
You know that one of my favorite questions to ask people who say they don't know their bliss is: "What did you love when you were 12? Why has that changed?"
It changes, of course, for 1 million reasons and for no reason at all, as I like to say about the depression that almost stole my life and with which I battled tooth and nail until it coughed up my Dancing Soul.
It changes because we hit puberty and something happens to us...something inside starts to feel so precarious that outside forces start to have way too much power.
Instead of being ...
Event Puddle: 27-29 Aug
August 26, 2010 · Posted by BELLYBLOG ·
Bank Holiday Bonanzas
Here’s a really lovely dance movie collab from Bellingham…
August 26, 2010 · Posted by Dance Movies ·
Here’s a really lovely dance movie collab from Bellingham Washington involving poetry, dance and really nice cinematography…
I love dance movies.
Here’s the deets!
A dance film collaboration by Diane and BJ Williams for the show “Phrasings: in word and dance”, April 2010, Bellingham, WA. Poem written by BJ Williams, read by Chris Eide. Music by Flim and Lullatone. Choreography and dancing by Diane Williams. Video shot by BJ and Diane on a Digital Harinezumi 2.
90
August 26, 2010 · Posted by No Expectations ·
These pics are from such an amazing shoot from 4 years ago and marked the first time that i ever worked with Pointe. Also this was a few months after i had fallen 25 feet from my rooftop. A fall that should have killed me but instead knocked in a couple loose bolts giving me a new attitude/motivation towards life because i should not have survived the fall so i was given a second chance.The ballet is called 90, a part of other short ballets that i had made with Garen for a film shoot at City Ballet Studios ...
