Category Archives: performance

barney ashton: barking 0

In addition to being a poet, playwright and performance artist, Barney Ashton is an intuitive photographer and filmmaker as well as a curator and expert on British archival documentary. His executive production credits include cabaret concerts for DVD with Eartha Kitt and Marc Almond. In early 2008, he appeared on the BBC’s Horizon. The episode, [...]

peter hapak 1

Images: © Peter Hapak

clementine the living fashion doll 0

Mark Mander is one of the UK’s premier puppeteers. After art school he worked as a sculptor for Madame Tussaud’s and as a set model maker for Cameron Mackintosh before focusing on his first love, puppetry. Mark has been working in London, both as a puppeteer and puppet designer/maker for the BBC, ITV, Disney UK [...]

ricci/forte: pinter’s anatomy 0

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction,
a quicksand,
a trampoline,
a frozen pool which might give way under you…
at any time.

Ricci/Forte: Pinter’s Anatomy
With: Marco Angelilli, Pierre Lucat, Giuseppe Sartori and Anna Terio
Style concept: Simone Valsecchi
Director’s Assistant: Elisa Menchicchi
Images: © Mauro Santucci, from rehearsals of Pinter’s Anatomy by Ricci/Forte, during November 2009 in Rome. The [...]

dances of vice 0

This November, prepare to set sail (literally and figuratively)
for the most extravagant and fanciful gathering of
castaways, sailors, glittering mermaids, sea sirens, pirates,
romantic sea captains and scalawags ever known to New York!

Dances of Vice Festival returns on November 20 – 22 2009 in a three-day nautical themed flight of fancy that will be held in several [...]

shame 0

© Cyrille Weiner
Evelyne House of Shame
by
Christophe Haleb
Marseille, 2009
La Zouze

We but half express ourselves,
and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty 0

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Images: Giuseppe Sartori in Wunderkammer Soap #1, Didon by Ricci/Forte, Festival act0ral 8 Marseille, France, 02 October 2009. Photos: © Lisa Sudhibhasilp. Didon becomes the long day’s [...]

miguel gutierrez: retrospective exhibitionist 0

Miguel Gutierrez is a Brooklyn based dance and music artist. He creates group work as the director of Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People as well as solos. He is twice the winner of a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award: in 2002 for dancing with John Jasperse Company and in 2006 as a [...]

steven cohen: knock ‘em dead 0

Steven Cohen culminates his research residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center and CPR-Center for Performance Research with a special presentation/performance as part of Crossing the Line.
Knock ‘Em Dead is an evening of film, images, and live performance that incorporates video fragments of some of Cohen’s public interventions and draws inspiration from the small cemeteries that survive [...]

the disciple 2

When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.
And when they saw that the pool had changed from a cup of sweet waters into [...]