mediatized

media, performance, and politics

Wednesday March 10th 2010

Mash-up more than subliminal

empire state of the wizard of oz from brian mccormick on Vimeo.

Grupo de Rua: H3 Dance Theater Workshop Feb 20 – 23 at 7:30pm The concept of “moving beyond hip-hop,” probably intended as a clever dance slogan, carries a loaded message that isn’t really evident in H3—a 50-minute occasion of [...]

Live & the Mediatized Other

“To the degree that performance attempts to enter the economy of reproduction it betrays and lessens the promise of its own ontology. Performance’s being…become itself through disappearance.” - Peggy Phelan On September 29, 2009 at a [...]

FRESH TRACKS

Dance Theater Workshop Feb 11 – 13 This year’s Fresh Track’s program offered a captivating cross-section of contemporary dance ecology in New York City. Clocking in at nearly two-hours, the excellent selections made by the panelists and [...]

PRETTY WOMAN / STRONG MAN

i get lost: An Evening of Solos by Judith Sanchez Ruíz and Souleymane Badolo Danspace Project Through Feb 6. With “i get lost: An Evening of Solos by Judith Sanchez Ruíz and Souleymane Badolo,” Ralph Lemon as curator introduces two [...]

ALL the VIOLENCE of WATER in fact

KIMBERLY BARTOSIK/ daela "The Materiality of Impermanence" Dance Theater Workshop Feb 3 – 6 at 7:30pm In Kimberly Bartosik’s impressionistic and gorgeous-looking new work, “The Materiality of Impermanence,” she and Marc Mann explore [...]

DECONSTRUCTING RECONSTRUCTION

Bill Clinton's pronouncement in the debris field of opportunism disguised as disorganized relief sparked first suspicion and then confirmation of the (continuing) exploitation of Haiti and its people by charitable organizations, corporations, and [...]

SOUL PROJECT

David Zambrano Danspace Project Through January 23 Performances at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church are always a community event; the intimacy of the space and its mission to present international avant-garde dance practically [...]

HAITI

"There is a multitude of ways to deal with death, sisters and brothers, is there not? There are valiant youths who go face to face with death, and battle it with their poor rocks; there are men and women, full of courage, who come from the wings [...]

TREACHERY OF IMAGES

Another response to the "Christmas Terror Plot" that draws on Rene Magritte's famous original painting "The Treachery of Images" that comments on the same conflation of sign, signifier, and signified as the original, with the added twist that refers [...]