“The situation” is purely experiential, engaging viewers immediately in real time and space to implore a questioning of the art experience, and experience itself. If “This situation” is not a work of performance design, I don’t know what is. It is not surprising to learn that Sehgal is a trained choreographer; he composes what is then physically interpreted by non-actors, actors and dancers, and in the case of “This Situation,” intellectuals. Continue reading »
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CAUSES | Finalist for 2013 Wai Look Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts
According to the Alliance’s website, the Wai Look Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts “recognizes and encourages Asian American individuals who demonstrate a commitment to outstanding service, advocacy and leadership — and whose active participation in or for the arts has made a considerable impact.” Continue reading »
CONFERENCE ON BREAKING BOUNDARIES | Looking back at the early marriage of Theater, Architecture and the Visual Arts
This conference, “Ephemeral and Permanent,” focuses on the interrelations of the visual arts and the dramatic arts in Rome broadly between 1300 and 1700. In this context, scenography and pageantry apparatus were as much the domain of visual artists as painting, sculpture, and architecture. Continue reading »
IN EXHIBITION | London’s Tate Modern scores major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi
Bringing together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in African and Arab Modernism, and reveal his place in the context of a broader, global art history. Continue reading »
Deadlines | Call for nominations for performing arts ensembles from Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia and Vietnam
This call seeks nominations of performing arts ensembles in all disciplines (dance, music, theater) from Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Vietnam for month-long tours of the U.S. from June through December 2014 Continue reading »
Dance report | Paul Taylor, Alice Tierstein, Israel Galvan, Yvonne Meier bag Bessie Awards
“For nearly six decades Taylor has been inventing movement and creating dances which delight and challenge the audience. Starting in 1954, Taylor was one of the early radicals reimagining the ways that that one might use dance to communicate ideas. The Bessies salute him as a pioneer who helped reshape the landscape of American dance.” Continue reading »
Deadlines | Nebraska Arts Center seeking applications for artists’ residency, Sept. 30
Are you ready for your residency? To apply for a residency for July to December 2013, apply by this deadline: September 30, 2023 Continue reading »
Lesbian herstory as performance design | 100 feminist drawings by 100 artist go to bed with collected objects from Brooklyn Museum
Ulrike Müller’s conceptual project, “Herstory Inventory” is a theatrical installation. It pushes together two sets of created inventory: new art inspired by the Lesbian Herstory Archive, and museum objects from the Brooklyn Museum where it is presently on view through September 9, 2012. Continue reading »
Review: Strange forms and cautionary parable flicker in Nic Ularu’s “Hieronymus Bosch”
“Hieronymus” pulses in that liminal space in between dramatic representation and visual abstraction. It’s a picture book of a play. It’s a meditation of the plight of the artist today and a hybrid re-composition that celebrates that artist’s singular voice. Continue reading »
Mexico-born performance artist Pablo Helguera reinterprets Bach’s fugue into year-long “Well-Tempered Exposition”
NEW YORK CITY: On September 21, the New York-based, Mexico-born performance artist and scholar Pablo Helguera kicks off his ambitious year-long project, The Well-Tempered Exposition, at Location One, located at 23 Greene Street in downtown SoHo in New York City. Location One‘s 2011-2012 Senior Artist-in-Residence, Helguera is putting together a series of 24 events in which … Continue reading »
What is a Rasaboxes actor? A musician of emotions, in which India meets Western actor training
NEW YORK CITY — In between scenes while performing Laertes in the Gallery Players’s production of Hamlet in Brooklyn, the young classical actor Dan Lawrence juices up his body to achieve what he calls “a rasic performance.” “Laertes appears early on in Shakespeare’s play and then he disappears, but when he re-enters the play, basically … Continue reading »