Month: January 2010

  • "Revolving Twilight" and Abby Man-Yee Chan at The Chocolate Factory

    Last night, video installation artists Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons bid farewell to their multi-channel video and sound installation at The Chocolate Factory with a live performance by NYC/HK dance artist, Abby Man-Yee Chan .  “Revolving Twilight” has been in the basement of the LIC theater since early December and was extended until last night. …

  • Save the Date for WOW+FLUTTER

    Andrew Schneider WOW+FLUTTER February 25-27, 2010 Thursday – Saturday at 8PM @ The Chocolate Factory 5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NYC 11101 The Chocolate Factory begins its Spring 2010 Season with WOW+FLUTTER, a new solo performance by Andrew Schneider. Schneider uses the body as a physical playback device of recorded media. Using custom-built wearable…

  • Save the Date for Three Pianos

    Hoi Polloi Three Pianos Written and Performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy Directed by Rachel Chavkin February 25—March 20, 2010 Performed everyday except Mondays and Wednesdays at 8p.m. At The Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church • 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.) Three Pianos is a theatrical explosion of Franz…

  • Tobaron Waxman Wins Audience Award

    My friend Tobaron is the first transgendered artist to be exhibited in a major Jewish museum exhibition – Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life at the Jewish Musuem – and he has won the Audience Award for the favorite work in the exhibition! Tobaron Waxman is the winner of The Jewish Museum’s first-ever Audience Award, selected from…

  • Five Questions for Phil Soltanoff

    Name: Phil Soltanoff Title/Occupation: Director URL: http://www.philsoltanoff.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Stamford, CT right on the border between middle class and upper middle class white cultures. I didn’t like it there, but I did find a starting point working…

  • Oh That Wacky Tino Seghal

    “You can go to any number of dance panels where this comes up—about context and why artists are able to support themselves and dancers aren’t,” said RoseLee Goldberg, the author of a history of performance art and director of the performance art biennial Performa. “They don’t understand why if you did the same work in a…

  • Magical Myopia

    It was cold last night and as I wound my way downstairs and downstairs and down into the Atlantic Theater’s Second Stage I didn’t know what to expect. I had heard great things but, you know, you never know, so now I know. I know I’m late to the party, but better late than never.…

  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – VOICE AND VISION

    Voice & Vision is looking for projects initiated by women theater artists including performers, directors, writers, designers and groups of collaborators for The ENVISION Retreat June 13 – June 27, 2010 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York go to http://www.vandv.org/sub.html for details  or contact retreat@vandv.org with any questions. POSTMARK DEADLINE: March 1, 2010 Voice & Vision develops and produces vibrant theater…

  • Expressive Life on ArtsJournal

    Over on ArtsJournal there’s a real highbrow conversation by celebrity arts admin bloggers.  Here’s the basic premise: Are the terms “Art” and “Culture” tough enough to frame a public policy carve-out for the 21st century? Are the old familiar words, weighted with multiple meanings and unhelpful preconceptions, simply no longer useful in analysis or advocacy?…

  • Philly Fringe Call for Artists

    Philly Fringe is inviting artists to submit to participate.  Go here for more information.

  • Play: A Journal of Plays

    Sally Oswald and Jordan Harrison are launching Issue #4 of the independent journal PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS. Since 2003, Oswald and Harrison have devoted their off-hours to the life of plays on the page, offering a home in print for innovative, graphically adventurous, and otherwise “impractical” works. The Journal has become a darling of…

  • Dance On Camera Festival

    If, like the NY Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay, you are “only slightly acquainted with the work of three of these artists (Beth Gill, Ralph Lemon, Sarah Michelson) and not at all with three others (John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Anna Liv Young),” or even if you are,  check out the Dance On Camera Festival kicking…