Archive for March, 2008
Diminishing Coverage of Dance Continues…
Firings at the Voice
The New York Times
By Claudia La Rocco
March 29, 2008
The Village Voice has dismissed its dance critic, Deborah Jowitt, leaving the weekly with no full-time staff dance writers. Ms. Jowitt, right, began at the newspaper in November 1967 and was one of its senior arts writers. She said in a telephone interview that [...]
MEMO
To: Barack, Hillary and John
From: David Sheingold
Date: 3/28/2008
Re: National Arts Agenda
One of you is going to be the next President of the United States. As you share your plans for the future of America I am interested in your agenda for the arts. The next President has an opportunity to renew this country’s commitment to freedom of [...]
Adrienne Truscott, Walter Dundervill and Heather Olson: Make Mine a Dream, Waiter
This from Deborah Jowitt at The Village Voice.
“After seeing these pieces, you leave the theater smiling, scratching your head, and giving imaginary prizes for audacity.” Read the full review here.
Precision and Spectacle by Two Hyphenates in Progress
The New York Times
By GIA KOURLAS
Published: March 28, 2008
In recent years the relationship between choreographer and dancer has become more fluid, producing new ways of moving as well as adaptable performers with diverse résumés and healthy imaginations. Two such examples, Walter Dundervill and Heather Olson, have struck out on their own in a shared program [...]
How do you bring new people to dance?
After reading countercritic’s post on Adrienne Truscott and orientating new audience members to dance I was inspired to start a list of ways that dance lovers can initiate newcomers. Please add on … what do you do?
“Rather than going to a performance and try to “get it,” which implies a kind of need [...]
A New Beginning
countercritic on Adrienne Truscott:
The thing is, a work like “genesis, no!” leaves room for all kinds of interpretation within the very semiotic gaps that make the theater possible, thereby emphasizing the responsibility of the audience participant to engage and come to certain conclusions based on their own experience with the work. read more
Adrienne Truscott’s ‘genesis, no!’
Laura Diffenderfer writes about genesis, no! on My Dance Place.
“The evening, in which almost nothing grand happened, was–and modern dance so rarely is–really, really funny. It was not funny in an ironic way–you know that uncomfortable feeling that it’s ’supposed’ to be funny if you really ‘get it’ that results in smug chuckling? It was [...]
Where do you live?
Attention everyone: the good people curating this year’s Movement Research Festival are putting together an Artists’ Map of NYC (and beyond). Please send your home address to Jeff Larson at jeff.larson@mac.com. (Fear not, your address will not be passed along to anyone else.) If you have questions contact Jeff [...]
Gothamist interviews Adrienne Truscott
“As one half of “New York’s bravest and bawdiest” somersaulting, trapeze-swinging, burlesque duo The Wau Wau Sisters, Adrienne Truscott has wreaked her fair share of mayhem around the world. As a choreographer, she’s slightly more tethered, but still terrifically entertaining. In her latest work genesis, no! Truscott explores the concept of the museum, and wonders [...]
