Month: February 2010

  • Andrew Schneider at The Chocolate Factory

    Oi! The 7 trains are running this weekend (thanks to the continued slushfest), so there’s no reason for you to miss multimedia/interactive designer and performer, Andrew Schneider’s riotous tonic to the endless winter malaise festering in your subconscious.  He’s at the Chocolate Factory tonight and tomorrow with “Wow and Flutter,” a frenetic, witty, disorienting explosion…

  • Eyebeam 2010 Residencies and Fellowshiops

    Eyebeam is pleased to announce the recipients of its Winter/Spring Residencies and 2010 Fellowships. These nine artists and technologists will begin work at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art new media design, digital research, and fabrication studios on March 1, 2010, in the areas of open source research, augmented reality gaming, open API development, museum data research, video and new media…

  • Five Questions for Adam Greenfield

    Name: Adam Greenfield Title/Occupation: Literary Manager, Director Organization/Company: Playwrights Horizons URL: www.playwrightshorizons.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up nestled between two freeways in Orange County, California. I did my best to be one of those kids who skateboards around the mini-malls with…

  • Lose Your Shit loft party

    MeanRed makes some crazy parties. Here’s one for Saturday night: Saturday, February 27th 2009 Lose Your Shit loft party w/ DJ Smallchange, Mike Simonetti, The Twilite Tone, Dirtyfinger It’s back and we need it — Lose Your Shit — the dance party that mashes up NYC nightlife. The next one is coming up this Saturday…

  • OBject obJECT at DNA

    While a long popular class destination for young and international dancers since it’s Dance Space Center days, Dance New Amsterdam has been effectively developing several platforms for bringing various artists together and to their 130-seat theater since moving to Lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11.  There are various “Raw” and work-in-progress offerings, as well…

  • Ohio Theater to close

    IT’S OFFICIAL: SOHO’S BELOVED OHIO THEATRE TO CLOSE AUGUST 31, 2010 (February 23, 2010) New York, NY – The Ohio Theatre, a pillar of New York’s downtown theatre scene for 29 years, will close on August 31, 2010. The new landlord has issued official notice and no further negotiations are scheduled. Located at 66 Wooster…

  • See Bruno Beltrao at DTW NOW

    If I could, I would go back to DTW for the next 3 nights with someone new to see Bruno Beltrao/Grupa de Rua’s “H3” each time.  I want to watch this work work.  And work it does, on so many levels.  It’s a physically brutal investigation of time, space, and energy.  It’s a collapse of…

  • Culturebot Recommends LA Party

    Just got back from the COLLAPSABLE HOLE where I finally got to see Phil Soltanoff’s LA PARTY. I saw a bit of it in PRELUDE but had to keep running back and forth. Then I couldn’t get in to see it at HERE during Under The Radar because it kept selling out. And with good…

  • Armory Show this Weekend!

    Moving Theater in association with Park Avenue Armory presents ARMORY SHOW A new work by Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly Performances by Jonathan Drillet, Davon Rainey, Marlène Saldana, Debra Ann Servider, Jose Tena, Anthony Whitehurst, and ICE | International Contemporary Ensemble Original music by Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de León, and Du Yun Sat, February…

  • Selective Memory – in progress at Chocolate Factory

    Caught this last night – Brian Rogers, AD of the Chocolate Factory is sharing his latest work-in-progress this weekend. There’s no 7 train – damn the MTA – but figure out how to get out there and have some free wine. I definitely caught that opening feeling of William Eggleston’s “Stranded in Canton” – the…

  • Park Avenue Armory Foolishness

    In this article in the NY TIMES,  Charles Isherwood suggests that the Park Avenue Armory be turned into a grand scale permanent home for classical theater. This is just plain wrong on so many levels I hardly know where to begin. Just because the Royal Shakespeare Company will install a classical theater inside the Park Avenue Armory…

  • Fresh Tracks at DTW

    Put on my wellies and slogged through the slushfest last night to attend Dance Theater Workshop’s “Fresh Tracks” benefit.  It was well worth it. If this particular program (for this 45-year old series) is an accurate barometer of our current artistic atmosphere, I’d forecast rich days ahead for dance.  I’ll admit, despite being a loyal…