Monthly Archives: September 2006

Although it was billed as intermeidate/advanced, the workshop wtih Stan’s Cafe Associate Directors, Amanda Hadingue and Craig Stephens, was all about the basics. Some attendees were undoubtedly disappointed (I noticed a few rolling eyes), but those that went with the … Continue reading →

I really responded to the footage of Angell stomping around the woods in the snow, having a conversation with the mountains, the trees and the wildlife. I couldn’t help but think of the role that fire and trees plays in … Continue reading →

Posted by Scott McEachern What struck me most about this four-channel installation piece was the simplicity of the images on screen. Yet this very simplicity belied a deeply moving piece of film that engaged issues of life, death, fertility, pain, … Continue reading →

Posted by Scott McEachern A line of reasoning exists in narrative theory circles stating that at most what we can hope for in the stories we tell each other is a dynamism of desire. One way to extend this idea … Continue reading →

The stage set was really minimal, flickering candles surrounding a single chair, her keyboards and pedals, viola, the one small projection screen on which hovered a luminous shot of the moon’s surface. The audience was hushed, waiting for her to … Continue reading →

Photos 09/09/06 – Justine Avera

I’m still not sure if Laurie Anderson is a master artist or a hypnotist. Or both. Late in the performance, from my vantage point of the exact last row of the highest balcony (about even with the moon, which felt … Continue reading →

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I find this very interesting—that what one person thinks is the best performance in the festival, someone else finds amateur and clumsy. What to one person is genuine and multi-dimensional is to someone else an empty academic exercise. This is … Continue reading →

After the party there’s the afterparty…after that party there’s the hotel lobby! -Carissa Wodehouse Freelance writer, enthusiast