Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Feb 8, 2012, 10:41 pm
I never thought sewing could be sexy until I saw A.O. Movement Collective’s thread duet (an excerpt from barrish) this weekend at CPR as part of “Object as Performer.” Two women deliberately sew the fronts of their shirts together with red string, and then struggle with the bond this makes bet...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Feb 2, 2012, 12:51 pm
A couple months I took Mike Daisey to task, a bit, for The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. After seeing the show, I wrote this, of how I understood Daisey’s purpose in creating the piece: hope, I’d guess, is that this will compel us to do something. Talk about it with others, write letters to A...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Feb 2, 2012, 9:24 am
I’m Nobody! Who Are You? by Maya Ciarrocchi Originally presented at The Chocolate Factory, I’m Nobody! Who Are You? is re-conceived for the New York Live Arts Ford Foundation Live Gallery Wall. The installation is comprised of a series of life-sized video portraits, presented in pairs, of indiv...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 31, 2012, 10:59 pm
A week after seeing a preview performance of Einstein on the Beach and there’s still this feeling of having taken a trip to a 1976 sci-fi time capsule. An operatic spaceship. It was a four-hour train ride from Chicago to the Power Center at the University of Michigan, a venue that in mid-January w...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 31, 2012, 9:48 pm
I love Two-Headed Calf. Brendan Connelly, Brooke O’Harra and their rotating cast of collaborators are always making work that is adventurous, challenging and usually pretty fun. For “You, My Mother” they’ve brought together some super-duper stars of downtown including Bessie-winning playwrig...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 28, 2012, 12:10 pm
Maura’s moderating another panel for The Field’s Economic Revitalization in the Performing Arts program on Monday 1/30 at 6:30 at Joyce Soho about How Artists and Presenters Works Together .FREE. It’s easy to forget that artists and theaters are partners birthing artworks to the world.  So o...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 27, 2012, 3:53 pm
Liz Sargent in "Botanica." Photo by Paula Court “For years, some of my favorite French surrealist pornography was Bataille’s Blue of Noon and Louis Aragon’s Irene’s Cunt,” Jim Findlay explained about halfway through our interview. For the first thirty-some minutes, we’d been discussing ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 25, 2012, 2:44 pm
For the past week and some, I’ve been struggling with my response to Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show (part of PS 122′s COIL Festival, through Feb, 4; tickets $25-$35). From the moment I left the Baryshnikov Arts Center two Saturdays past, I had the feeling that I was missing something,...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 24, 2012, 3:11 pm
Maggie is a twat – the talk show TEASER from The Mob on Vimeo. Word from my pal Alexandra Rosenberg from up at the Chocolate Factory (and other artsy things) has it that this Danish performance duo, The Mob, are the real deal, and watching the trailer for their newest show, I have to admit I’m ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 23, 2012, 4:33 pm
By Cassie Peterson Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show (at Baryshnikov Arts Center as part of PS122′s COIL Festival, through Feb. 4; tickets $25-$35) is an exquisitely exaggerated performance about the performance of gender which we all negotiate every moment of every day. We live in a worl...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 20, 2012, 1:47 am
... in this era of great transformation on a global scale, what do you still believe in? featuring: -Barbara Hammer, filmmaker -Gregory Whitehead, writer & radio producer -Alison Knowles, Fluxus artist & performer -George Quasha, poet & visual artist -Lenora Champagne, perf...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 20, 2012, 1:37 am
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with Brad Learmonth, Director of Programming at Harlem Stage, to talk about their upcoming season and get a peek into the future. Can you tell us a little bit about how you got to Harlem Stage and what you do? Well, it’s a long story, but I’ll be here twent...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 18, 2012, 5:19 am
This showed up in my Facebook feed. (thumbnail photo by Frederick Hecker) Shot in Fire Island, New York, this film captures the secrets of eternal youth as Maia Helles, a Russian ballet dancer turns 95 but still remains resolutely independent, healthy and as fit as a forty year old. Made by Julia ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 18, 2012, 2:46 am
The Store Demo; clip length 2:00 from ysdt on Vimeo. Don’t know much about this but could be interesting: New York City based Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre presents The Store, an evening length dance theater performance that tells a story of love, loss and the struggle for self on January 19-21, at 7...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 14, 2012, 1:21 pm
... The Cold War was abruptly curtailed by an alien robot invasion that wiped out North America. The Soviet ... Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War is set in the midst of this ... small, Iowa farming town shortly before the alien robot invasion. The radio episodes, sprinkled w...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 12, 2012, 5:16 pm
Oh, the days when slapping a video behind a dance or music piece made it a ‘multimedia performance.’ The novelty rapidly waned, and our expectations for multimedia are higher now—as they should be. Still, it’s a treat to be newly amazed by the possibilities of video in live performance. The ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 11, 2012, 4:29 pm
Jack Ferver and Michelle Mola. Photo by Ian Douglas Characterizing Queen Cleopatra, Jack Ferver’s maniacal grin charges the Abrons Arts Center Experimental Theater during Monday’s American Realness performance of Me, Michelle with the charming Michelle Mola. In a silvery floor-length dress, Mol...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 9, 2012, 4:21 pm
Heather Lang and Eleanor Bauer. Photo by Ian Douglas A whole lot of real exists in The Heather Lang Show By Eleanor Bauer And Vice Versa Trash Is Fierce Episode 2: Destiny’s Realness, and that’s a good thing. Smart, vital and spontaneous, Eleanor Bauer and Heather Lang host an insightful infome...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 7, 2012, 4:57 pm
From Gob Squad's "Super Night Shot." Photo by Prudence Upton This is sort of a weird review to write, because I don’t actually have too much to say about either one of these. You want my elevator trip length take?: Gob Squad is awesome, whereas Builders Association’s Sontag: Reborn is complicat...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Jan 6, 2012, 2:30 pm
From "Alexis. A Greek Tragedy." Photo by Pierre Borasci It’s taken me a couple days to get anything out because my response to Motus‘s Alexis. A Greek Tragedy (at Under the Radar through Jan. 14; tickets $20) was so complex. I think maybe I wanted to like it more than I did, or distrusted my an...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 14, 2011, 5:57 pm
... dark portrait of one man’s disintegration (through December 22, tickets $45-$77). Recognizable to US audiences as Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Cillian Murphy makes his stateside stage debut with a knock-your-socks-off performance as Thomas Magill,...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 14, 2011, 9:49 am
Rude Mechs | The Method Gun from OntheBoards.tv on Vimeo. The latest addition to OtB.tv–a site founded by Seattle’s On the Boards to offer high-quality videos of contemporary performance for streaming or download–just posted their latest: Austin’s Rude Mechs, who’ve had a hell of a year t...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 13, 2011, 7:26 pm
... me a fag hag, I’m in love with 4 gay boys. The gay cover boys Mathew Rogers, Paul Monaghan, Niall Jones, and Michael Ingle to be exact. After the performance of Cover Boy Tere O’Connor‘s latest, I felt dusted in fairy magic. And ... E-D-I-B-L-E. What if I had missed that out of sheer laz...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 13, 2011, 12:29 pm
... were staying during their appearance at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts‘s ... look quite a bit like the Blues Brothers, sans shades and hats). ... how novel or effective: it’s the performances and characterizations that Rychcik ... as self-reflective threats, à la The Godfa...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 12, 2011, 2:01 pm
Ideally, the dialectic of de- and re-skilling should allow artists, directors, and choreographers to creatively rethink their output, and in ways that go beyond a mere swapping of context. As viewers too, we need to re-skill, learning to read the ways in which the black box might offer its own criti...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 12, 2011, 10:02 am
... 10-4pm ALL-DAY SCREENINGS Curated by Adam Soch Williams, videographer and documentarian 10am Introductory remarks (via Skype) by Daniel Mufson, author Reza Abdoh ( ... a Luz company members Tony Torn, Peter Jacobs and Tom Pearl, joined by ... Durst and others; a filmed tribute by Alan Man...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 11, 2011, 11:57 pm
... The Jazz Gallery! It is a cozy loft space on Hudson just below Spring and it ... back. But even from the back the space has this wonderful warmth and intimacy – ... just blowing our minds with their talent and inventiveness. The space-y noise jam during the Doldrums section was created by...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 10, 2011, 5:28 pm
1994: 2011: The aesthetics of the these music videos are, let’s face it, identical. And musically they’re in a very similar space, expanding rock stylings into the pop realm. But what these two pieces are saying about gender, relationships, sexuality, the body…truly an epic contrast.
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 10, 2011, 3:33 pm
... been in the business for over 40 years and she was telling me how back in the day when Philip Morris was a major sponsor of BAM and other institutions, you would go to parties and events and ... an article about BAM’s new Professional Development Program that will reside in the soon-to-ope...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Dec 9, 2011, 5:41 pm
The LAVA acrobatics company performs Atlas at Dixon Place in New York City on December 3, 2011. Photo by Angela Jimene By Jeremy Finch I love circus arts. But there’s something about going to the circus and watching world-class circus performers that sometimes bothers me. Sometimes you can sense...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Nov 2, 2011, 5:29 pm
There’s a fascinating article in today’s NY Times about an artists’ class action lawsuit filed against Sotheby’s, Christie’s and E-Bay in order to get compensation for the resale of their work. Laura Miller, courtesy of the artist and Pace Wildenstein In a way it ties into our discussion...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Nov 2, 2011, 4:37 pm
Conor Madden in "The Rehearsal." Photo by Ros Kavanaugh Hamlet is to theater what genocide is to geopolitics: the problem from Hell. What, exactly, are we supposed to make of this play (really three separate plays) and this character? He seems to be trying to get revenge for his father’s murder b...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Nov 1, 2011, 6:07 pm
Thus far Culturebot has mostly avoided writing about OWS. Not for lack of interest, but because there didn’t seem to be much to add to the dialogue. However, since we pass OWS on our way to work every day, we’ve been thinking a lot about the economy, funding and the arts. We are currently workin...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Nov 1, 2011, 4:59 pm
Angels of Swedenborg from culturehub on Vimeo. Wow oh wow is time getting away from us! Last weekend, the Ping Chong & Company, in collaboration with Great Jones Rep, opened a revival of his well-known 1985 dance theater piece Angels of Swedenborg (at La MaMa through Nov. 13; tickets $25/$20). We�...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 31, 2011, 7:58 pm
To further the promotion and contextualization of dance in the college and the dance community at large, the Department of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College organizes an annual lecture series called Dialogues in Dance. On November 9, Laurie Uprichard will be talking about “Contemporary Dance ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 31, 2011, 7:46 pm
Maria Hassabi is always adventurous and exciting. Whether creating work inspired by the performance aesthetics of fashion or challenging the very meaning of dance in her collaboration with Robert Steijn, Hassabi can be expected to upend our expectations. On Thursday through Saturday, November 3–5...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 31, 2011, 10:48 am
An animation still from "Brooklyn Babylon," by artist Danijel Zezelj Usually doing a preview is tricky business, because–absent an interview–what you’re doing is writing about something you haven’t seen, made by artists you may or may not know much about, with the only information at your d...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 28, 2011, 2:22 pm
Karina Smulders and Chris Nietvelt in "Cries and Whispers." Photo by Jan Versweyveld. I don’t entirely want to slag down the programming at BAM’s Next Wave Fest thus far, but I wasn’t just excited or interested in the shows this week, I needed them. The theater programming has had its moments...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 27, 2011, 12:30 pm
This story has yet to gain much traction in the English language press, aside from a write up in the Guardian (see here for an English language report from French national radio), but right now Paris is playing host to ongoing tête-à-tête between far-right religious fundamentalists and legendary ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 26, 2011, 1:35 pm
Lyndsey Karr. Photo by Ian Douglas. Beijing Dance Theater, Haze (BAM Next Wave Fest). Due to a scheduling conflict, I didn’t get a chance to see Wang Yuanyuan’s choreography until closing night on Saturday, and ultimately, it was a mixed bag that left me ambivalent in a somewhat similar fashion...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 25, 2011, 2:20 pm
Last week, I wrote a sort of “review of the reviews” about Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at the Public Theater, and offered some thoughts of my own about Daisey’s work. However, I hadn’t actually seen the show, and in the interests of fairness, I went this Sunday to...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 24, 2011, 4:05 pm
I know we’re a little behind the curve on this one (there’s a post on p-club about the situation, and it was even written up on pitchfork.) but we were talking about this whole Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker vs. Beyonce scandal over the weekend and trying to figure out what the ramifications are. I...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 24, 2011, 1:22 am
Last week I went to see Antonio Zambujo on CUNY’s new Live @ 365 series, curated by Isabel Soffer. We don’t cover a lot of music here at Culturebot, but I loved this concert and I wanted to let people know about this great new series. Antonio Zambujo is one of the most well-regarded performers ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 22, 2011, 11:14 am
Applications are now available for the 2012-13 ICPP Certificate Program. Updated application information, now live on the ICPP website. On-campus residency dates for 2012-2013 are: July 6–22, 2012; November 15–18, 2012; and March 8–11, 2013. Applications are due February 1, 2012 for the ...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 22, 2011, 11:01 am
We’re a little late to the party on this one but playwright Sylvan Oswald – who we interviewed back in 2010 – has a new show on, being produced by New Georges. It looks interesting, a slippery blend of gender and racial politics, no doubt handled deftly with Sylvan’s gift for language and cl...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 21, 2011, 8:55 pm
I went to see Karen O.’s Stop The Virgens at St. Ann’s Warehouse with some trepidation. Friends of mine on the crew told me that the load-in had been a clusterfuck and that major design decisions were made last minute, on the fly. They said the show was kind a glorious mess – too much money, n...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 20, 2011, 10:35 pm
Having Steve Jobs die right before the opening of Mike Daisey’s The Ecstasy and Agony of Steve Jobs at the Public is surely both a blessing and a curse. Blessing because, well, it makes for great PR (provided you abide by the old axiom that all press is good press). Curse because the outpouring of...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 19, 2011, 4:13 am
PLAYING WITH CINEMA — AMERICAN PERFORMERS EXPERIMENT WITH FRENCH FILMS Saturday, October 22nd 6:30pm 120 min The Invisible Dog Art Center With: Miguel Gutierrez , The National Theater of the United States of America, Annie-B Parson, Dan Safer Hosted by: Melissa Anderson Co-presented with T...
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 17, 2011, 3:01 pm
On Thursday, October 13 we went to the Performing Garage to check out PS122′s presentation of Cuqui Jerez’ The Rehearsal as part of the Crossing The Line Festival. It was incredible! I’m pretty sure it was totally sold out, so I don’t feel quite as bad about how late this review is going up....
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Andrew Horwitz posted an article on Culturebot - Oct 17, 2011, 2:25 pm
Last Wednesday took us to The Kitchen for Faustin Linyekula’s powerful new work more more more…future. The piece explores the sociopolitical landscape of Linyekula’s native Democratic Republic of Congo by juxtaposing visceral, muscular choreography with revolutionary poems by Antoine Vumilia...
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