Archive for November, 2007
Duped!
Beth Gill experiments with transcendent body doubles.
Time Out New York
By Gia Kourlas
PUBLISHED: Nov 28, 2007
Beth Gill began her meticulous new quartet, Eleanor & Eleanor, by carefully considering the space it would inhabit: the cavernous, boxy stage of Dance Theater Workshop, where, as she noted after a recent rehearsal, the pitched angle of the audience to [...]
Don’t Miss Beth and Danny!
My first exposure to these talented young choreographers was when Miguel Gutierrez curated his Young Americans program as part of Danspace Project’s Food for Thought (Jan. 2005). Pretty much everyone from that program is vital and thriving today in the NYC dance and performance world.
The Banner and the Bunny
Banner Sighting #4 …. Snoopy, Hello Kitty, the Energizer Bunny and more!
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Jerome Bel - People are still talking about it
There is still a bit of activity and conversation around Jerome Bel’s presentation of Pichet Klunchun and myself which was presented two weeks ago here at Dance Theater Workshop.
Looking for the Truth When It Keeps Changing
The New York Times
By ROSLYN SULCAS
Published: November 17, 2007
“This is a piece of fiction,” Faustin Linyekula says at the start of “Festival of Lies,” which opened on Wednesday night at Bricstudio in Brooklyn. “But one thing is indisputably real: the food and the bar.”
Banner Sighting #3 and Faustin Linyekula on Load In at BRIC
Dance Theater Workshop’s marketing department ran into Faustin during a recent site visit at BRIC Studio…
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Hear Them Talk and See Them Dance, Then Watch Their Cultures Clash
The piece says a great deal about the subtleties of skilled performing and the nature of dance, and also about dance history, particularly the New York postmodernist movement of the 1960s and ’70s. Mr. Bel has long been interested in that era and what it had to say about art and artifice. But he approaches that often grim terrain with a blessed dash of irreverent humor.
Caution: Children Watching. How Far Do You Push the Envelope?
The New York Times
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published: November 9, 2007
When Ann Liv Young participated in Dance Theater Workshop’s Family Matters series several years ago, she was asked to make an adjustment in her piece, which involved performers’ doing upside-down splits with their heads in toilet bowls: Have them don a second [...]
Neil, Moving
By Richert Schnorr
“It was pretty much the perfect experience.”
Neil Greenberg and I are on the phone. He’s just moved to LA, I’m still in New York and I’ve just asked him what it was like to revisit Not-About-AIDS-Dance twelve years after it’s premiere in 1994.
Culture Institutions Go After the Short-Attention-Span Crowd
The New York Times
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published: November 5, 2007
“…Dance Theater Workshop’s new artistic and executive directors, Carla Peterson and Stephen Greco, are studying ways to connect to the energy of Chelsea’s gallery scene, and to invite people in — both electronically, via a retooled Web site (dancetheaterworkshop.org), and in real time — to see [...]
