Rail Writing
March 5, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
The March issue of The Brooklyn Rail is chock-full of dance articles, so be sure to click on over when you have a chance. Among the offerings: Christine Hou shared her thoughts on Jon Kinzel’s Responsible Ballet And What We Need is a Bench to Put Books On; Brooklyn Rail dance editor Mary Love Hodges reviewed Fresh Tracks, Dance Theater Workshop’s emerging artist series; Trina Mannino wrote about Larry Keigwin’s upcoming season at the Joyce Theater; and I contributed an article about the new Jerome Robbins Theater at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. This month I also wrote about Opus Jazz: ...
Sehgal asks “What is progress?”
February 22, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Reviewing Tino Sehgal
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
[This piece was commissioned for Barbara Ann Levy's WPB/NYC and Anything Else blog and was posted there on February 19, 2010.]
What if...?
What if I had not read an article, a couple of reviews and some promo about Tino Sehgal’s Guggenheim exhibition? What if I hadn’t spent a short time, in the winter of 2008, with a more modest Sehgal situation staged inside the Marian Goodman Gallery?
What if I didn't know that a little kid would greet me near the bottom of the Guggenheim's ramp, introduce ...
Sehgal asks “What is progress?”
February 22, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Reviewing Tino Sehgal
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
[This piece was commissioned for Barbara Ann Levy's WPB/NYC and Anything Else blog and was posted there on February 19, 2010.]
What if...?
What if I had not read an article, a couple of reviews and some promo about Tino Sehgal’s Guggenheim exhibition? What if I hadn’t spent a short time, in the winter of 2008, with a more modest Sehgal situation staged inside the Marian Goodman Gallery?
What if I didn't know that a little kid would greet me near the bottom of the Guggenheim's ramp, introduce ...
Sehgal’s Guggenheim: the complexity of progress
February 3, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
In the Naked Museum: Talking, Thinking, Encountering
by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, February 1, 2010
And here's my short commentary on a Tino Sehgal piece I witnessed in 2008 at the Marion Goodman Gallery. I'm hoping to get up to the Guggenheim soon.
For details on the Guggenheim exhibition, click here.InfiniteBody
http://infinitebody.blogspot.com
Sehgal’s Guggenheim: the complexity of progress
February 3, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
In the Naked Museum: Talking, Thinking, Encountering
by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, February 1, 2010
And here's my short commentary on a Tino Sehgal piece I witnessed in 2008 at the Marion Goodman Gallery. I'm hoping to get up to the Guggenheim soon.
For details on the Guggenheim exhibition, click here.InfiniteBody
http://infinitebody.blogspot.com
Is Dance Democratic? The Art of Teaching, Part Deux
January 28, 2010 · Posted by The Winger ·
“Is dance democratic?” A question raised near the end of the Guggenheim’s Works and Process program on Sunday night, The Art of Teaching: Participation and Perception. I am so grateful to Tony’s previous post for presenting the material so clearly and expanding on some of the inherent problems of the specificity of ballet and each line of questioning that was raised. I too, found the lecture highly stimulating.
Damian Woetzel, former NYCB star and recent appointee to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, brought up and answered the above question by maintaining that dance can be democratic in enjoyment ...
