Monthly Archives: September 2007

Gary Wiseman: Tea Project Self-Portrait

During every Saturday night shift at the bar I am currently employed at my fellow employees and regulars always ask me the routine question “What did you do today?” Usually I always have to respond with the mundane shopping, great … Continue reading

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FOR A GOOD TIME…

Found discarded on the floor after a show. Is a “chance meetings” ad time based art?

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T:BA:07 Day Eleven – Sunday, 16 September 2007

T:BA:07 Day Eleven – Sunday, 16 September 2007 This just might be the last of the bLogs. It has been fun attending yet another year’s T:BA Festival, jotting down some thoughts, and hearing responses both in person and via this … Continue reading

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Kassys Kommer

I’m tired of sad. The ten years I’ve spent collecting degrees related to the making and study of literature have convinced me that it’s much more difficult to create a beautiful, meaningful, and solid piece of art that celebrates humanity … Continue reading

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All the stage is a lie – Young Jean Lee’s “Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven”

Convergences are what make TBA. Perhaps it is just the result of seeing this concentration of stellar avant-garde performances in such a short window of time, but I always have this sense of déjà vécu that unifies the entire week … Continue reading

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Reading Between the Lines – A Conversation About GATZ

The following is a near-total summary of Saturday morning’s conversation between John Collins, artistic director for Elevator Repair Service, the theatre company staging Gatz, and Mark Russell, artistic director for this year’s T:BA festival. Elevator Repair Service began with John … Continue reading

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Holcombe Waller, Into The Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest

With silky voice and well arranged folk-orchestral back-up Holcombe Waller lulls his audience into the kind of quiet complacency necessary for the absorption of such sweet singing. While his lyrics successfully stir self-reflective images of morning light on lovers’ shoulders, … Continue reading

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Larry Krone + Holcombe Waller

Dressed in red, white, and blue prison stripes, a cowboy hat, and cowboy boots, Larry Krone looked like circus cowboy escapee. And he sang such sweet, heartbreaking ditties, but for the laughs of his stage banter and woefully hyper-depressing lyrics. … Continue reading

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Chat: Moving Images: An exploration of Music and Film

with Aki Onda, Fuyuki Yamakawa and Pablo de Ocampo. This noontime chat offered insight into the artistic processes of two experimental practitioners from Japan. Both perform tonight at the works, and after hearing them talk about their work, I eagerly … Continue reading

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Claude Wampler: PERFORMANCE (career ender)

You may have played with the idea (as in a dream) that the entire world is a production of your imagination. It might seem spooky or lonely or egocentric, but never real. Wampler’s piece takes that mental exercise and turns … Continue reading

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