Archive for December, 2008
If you can’t find us…
It’s because we are gone for the Holidays!
Warm wishes and happy holidays to all. We will see you in the new year.
Jack Ferver
Dance Theater Workshop
presents
Death Is Certain
a work-in-progress by
Jack Ferver
as part of the
Studio Series
JANUARY 30-31, 2009 at 7:30pm
New York, NY, December 22, 2008 – Choreographer Jack Ferver will culminate his 100-hour creative residency as a part of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series with a performance of Death Is Certain. In this work-in-progress that [...]
Speak, Memory
Trying Times 1982 (remembered)
David Gordon Pick Up Performance Co(S.)
Dance Theater Workshop
New York, NY
December 22, 2008
by Leigh Witchel
copyright © 2008 by Leigh Witchel
I’m a trained you-know-what and he makes me talk, talk, talk!
David Gordon’s “Trying Times,” had a great deal of talk, talk, talk in it, much of it very witty. At its best, his [...]
Happy Holidays
Some of you may remember this holiday card from last year, but we hope it still makes you laugh. Happy Holidays to all!
David Gordon Makes His Past New
The Village Voice
Dance Review
By Deborah Jowitt
December 16, 2008
“He plays hide-and-seek rather than pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey,” says Valda Setterfield near the end of Trying Times 1982 (remembered). She’s talking about David Gordon, her husband since 1960 and the creator of work as precise as calligraphy and as slippery as an eel. Earlier, she delivers a line whose double [...]
A Fuzzy Look Back, Aided by Ghosts
Dance Review | David Gordon
The New York Times
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published: December 12, 2008
“You can’t go home again” is a saying made for the performing arts. Memory, nostalgia, expectations, the lost-in-translation nature of reconstructions: all of these can work against being in the now, which a satisfying experience of live art demands.
David Gordon, an uncommonly [...]
Arts Policy in the New Administration
Recommendations to the Office of Presidential Transition on behalf of
American Association of Museums
Americans for the Arts
Association of Art Museum Directors
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Chamber Music America
Chorus America
Dance/USA
League of American Orchestras
Literary Network
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
National Council for Traditional Arts
National Performance Network
National Network for Folk Arts in Education
OPERA America
Theatre Communications Group
The [...]
Zoe Scofield/Juniper Shuey
Dance Theater Workshop
presents
the New York premiere of
the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t
by
Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey
FEBRUARY 12-14, 2009
Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm
New York, NY, December 11, 2008 – Dance Theater Workshop presents a multi-disciplinary performance by Seattle-based artists Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey. The critically acclaimed the devil you know is better [...]
Fresh Tracks
Dance Theater Workshop
presents
FRESH TRACKS
featuring new works by
Hilary Clark, Devynn Emory, Stacy Grossfield,
Sahar Javedani, Adriane Lee, and Jen Rosenblit / BottomHeavy Productions
January 22-24 at 7:30pm
January 23 at 10pm
New York, NY, December 11, 2008 - Dance Theater Workshop enters its 43rd year in presenting Fresh Tracks. Created in 1965, Fresh Tracks is Dance [...]
The time is ripe
Time Out New York / Issue 689 : Dec 11–17, 2008
By Gia Kourlas
David Gordon stages a dance from the past.
courtesy of CalArts
David Gordon, an innovator since his Judson days, constructs. He doesn’t reconstruct. But a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts series American Masterpieces: Dance changed all of that. In Trying Times (remembered), [...]
