Monthly Archives: September 2009

Dogs Barking, Moths Fluttering, Light Rain Falling

Posted on September 5, 2009 by pica-blogger

Hitoshi Toyoda, NAZUNA Posted By: Julie Hammond Part way through the first half of Hitoshi Toyoda’s 90 minute silent slideshow NAZUNA I started to believe that this artist was capable of controlling much more than a camera shutter. A photo … Continue reading →

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Maybe Forever – Or, I Wanted to Give You So Much More

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Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Philipp Gehmacher/Mumbling Fish Maybe Forever Friday, September 4th 8:30 PM Newmark Theatre By Eve Connell Rainy Saturday afternoon, and I can’t shake the dregs of Meg Stuart’s melancholy study in mood and movement from last night’s … Continue reading →

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When actors start taking off their clothes on stage, America…

Posted on September 5, 2009 by pica-blogger

When actors start taking off their clothes on stage, I always wonder if they are going to go all the way
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Fallow Fields Bear Fruit: MGPP’s LAST MEADOW

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Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People/LAST MEADOW Posted by: Benjamin Ford Asriel Know this: I’m biased. When I first encountered Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, I was a college student and a comparative troglodyte. Seeing MGPP popped my dance-cherry … Continue reading →

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The Secret to Race: There’s No Catharsis

Posted on September 5, 2009 by pica-blogger

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company: The Shipment (Gerding Theater) By Jens Larson The reviews from Young Jean Lee‘s four-week run of The Shipment in New York were almost uniformly positive, and for good reason. Performed in three vignettes, the play’s … Continue reading →

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Whirl-twirling, ears ringing, reverb singing

Posted on September 5, 2009 by pica-blogger

Explode Into Colors, Janet Pants, & Chris Hackett (Los Moustachios), EYES HANDS MOUTH Posted by: Jim Withington Explode into Colors (and crew) played an evening set full of video art, short story vignettes, and endurance-flaunting solo dance tonight, but what … Continue reading →

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Miguel Gutierrez and the Performance Art Oppression

Posted on September 4, 2009 by pica-blogger

I like performance art as much as the next girl. Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People’s Last Meadow features all the mainstays of performance art. Overwhelming industrial soundscape, wigs, cross dressing, simulated masturbation, simulated intercourse, repetition, witty monologues, innovative dance/movement. … Continue reading →

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Smokin’ in the Boys Room

Posted on September 4, 2009 by pica-blogger

On Sight Opening at The Works, 09.03.09 Posted by: Jim Radosta Photo by: Kenneth Aaron While most kids are dreading going back to school next week, contemporary art lovers jumped at the opportunity during TBA’s opening celebration last night. The … Continue reading →

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Cathy Edwards Wants to Get in Your Head

Posted on September 4, 2009 by pica-blogger

Noontime Chat – TBA in a Nutshell posted by laura becker Last year, on the eve of his departure, Mark Russell gave a passionate, sincere, charmingly rambling postlude to his three years as director of the festival. The PICA staff … Continue reading →

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no such place

Posted on September 4, 2009 by pica-blogger

ON SIGHT Opening posted by: laura becker My anticipation for TBA, building up over the past couple weeks of arranging schedules and re-reading the catalogue, turned into an all out fever by last night as I putzed around my kitchen … Continue reading →

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