Month: August 2004

  • IMHO

    And while I don’t wanna come off too self-promoter-y, I want to take yet another opportunity to plug the upcoming (Tuesday, August 31st, 7pm) panel called IMHO:Blogs, Politics and Personal Voice. Its a special edition of the WYSIWYG Talent Show series that Culturebot is organizing for the Imagine04 Festival. (In case you’re keeping track, I…

  • networked performance

    Another way to approach the relationship of performance and the internet is to use the internet as the performance medium. Its pretty abstract to me, but you can learn more about that and other high-concept artistic endeavors over at the turbulence.org blog. I actually saw a presentation from one of the organizers, Helen Thorington, at…

  • theater can be dangerous

    The phrase “dangerous” theater is one that is pretty cringeworthy most of the time. Right along with “incendiary” or “controversial” it usually means little more than “naked people cursing and spouting obvious platitudes”. Its meaningless, of course, until your set catches fire. Or is torched. I wasn’t there but apparently a Green Dragon float was…

  • �Yeah, Dammit!� Talking to Susan Bernfield about New Georges� Manfest

    “Who gives who permission to write what? What happens when you defy expectations to write about people who aren’t like you?” (from the Manfest website) From September 12th to 25th, the New Georges theater company will be presenting Manfest. The festival is two weekends of conversation and performance, centered around six plays — the results…

  • she’s lump

    Yeah, we’re supposed to cover just performance, but hey I’m the boss of this place! So I’ll see you tonight at Bowery Ballroom for The Presidents of the United States of America. I think people thought these guys were kind of a novelty band but when they first broke out they provided a nice release…

  • dance dance revolution

    John Perry Barlow, cultural commentator and panelist for the upcoming IMHO: Blogs, Politics and Personal Voice event at P.S. 122, has a great idea to protest the RNC: dance at them! Click through and read more to get involved…

  • rants and raves

    NYFA has some really groovy stuff on their website. Apart from the artists resources and the job board they’ve started doing “in the spotlight” and “rants and raves” profiles of artists. Pretty neat. Actually, I think they’ve been doing it for a while. But I’m just getting around to writing about it. Because they’ve got…

  • Greetings from Ho-Land Part Four

    Long, long, ago, in another life, or to those who live their lives at a slightly less dramatic pace, last October, a friend and I were discussing how Amsterdam was affecting our respective artistic imaginations. “This is a very great city to write in,” said Diego, a swarthy, handsome Argentine whose accent, tempered by years…

  • Fall playwriting workshops starting at The Flea Theater

    For a couple of years now, The Flea Theater has been hosting playwriting workshops with experimental playwrights such as Maria Irene Fornes, Mac Wellman, Jeffrey M. Jones and Erik Ehn.

  • what are you voting for?

    Back in the olden days – before the internet, before CDs – a young feller had to go to his local record store or head shop to find cool ‘zines. Nowadays all that info is just a click away. But if you keep your eyes and ears open you can still find neat stuff all…

  • UnConvention

    If you haven’t had your fill of political theater after the Fringe Festival, the Howl Festival and the upcoming Imagine Festival you can check out The UnConvention, yet another festival of political theater. Albeit slightly more manageable than some of the others. I don’t know much about it, but it seems like it could be…

  • Its Howl!-tacular

    Friday night Culturebot did The HOWL Festival which made for a pretty full night. First was HOWL Dance which was amazing. Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks performed a beautiful and engaging piece called 7x7x7 Downtown. DD Dorvillier and Jennifer Monson performed an improvisation called RMW and Jennifer Miller and John Jasperse performed…