MAY 16-18 / 8PM / PERFORMANCE / ACTUA 1 constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film from the May ’68 uprisings. Performers pace restlessly in the main gallery, as they spout slogans for a missing revolution. Actors [...]
HOW ARE YOUR SUNDAYS? Do you find yourself wanting for something to do in the afternoon? Wouldn’t your weekend feel a little longer if you had something to look forward to? Search no more! James Moore & Jascha Narveson bring us a new concert series, every other Sunday from 2-3PM at the Invisible Dog. You [...]
TUESDAY MAY 21 – ALTERNATE / SHELTER – MOVEMENT RESEARCH FESTIVAL SPRING 2013 Curated by Vanessa Anspaugh, Hilary Clark, Mina Nishimura and Antonio Ramos TWO EVENTS! 6 – 7PM: Precarious Homes: A Conversation on Precarity and Performance with Katherine Brewer Ball – FREE Performance and the performing body have a unique relationship to life in [...]
JUNE 6-8 / 7.30PM – DANCE – TUNDRA by CHRISTIANA AXELSEN / Tundra is an evening-length performance piece with choreography by Christiana Axelsen, an original script by playwright Chana Porter, and original composition by Tito Ramsey. The show was developed with the assistance of dramaturg Megan Smith. Tundra features performers Andrew Champlin, Quinlan Corbett, Kevin [...]
JUNE 13-15 / hour varies / DANCE / COMING TOGETHER / ATTICA / Choreographer REBECCA LAZIER and indie-classical ensemble Newspeak join forces to present Coming Together/Attica, an immersive, site-specific dance work to a pulsating score by minimalist icon Frederic Rzewski. Composed after the 1971 prison riots in upstate New York, the companion scores Coming Together [...]
JUNE 22 & JUNE 25- 29 – INSTALLATION – DANCE – THE PEOPLE TO COME by A CANARY TORSI / YANIRA CASTRO – a canary torsi’s new multimedia project, The People to Come, is a participatory performance installation that invites audience members to become part of the work unfolding before them. It is a multi-layered [...]
MAY 7-8-9 / 7.30pm / LAST DAYS – FIRST FIELD by JILL SIGMAN / A movement ritual for our time, “last days/first field” kinesthetically distills the feeling of now– what it is to live in the face of climate change, extreme weather, economic instability, and political polarization. Eight dancers channel natural geological processes, ancient practices, [...]
APRIL 24-25 – 7.30PM – DANCE – DUCHESSES by & with FRANCOIS CHAIGNAUD MARIE CAROLINE HOMINAL – Between arid ecstasy, radiant meditation and cruel hypnosis, Duchesses explores an unlikely dance, sovereign and prisoner from the most ancient game of humanity. The hula hoop, symbol of sexual liberation, becomes for the Duchess a choreographic device, instantaneous [...]
FRIDAY MAY 3 – 7-10PM – BUREAU OF APOLOGY: AN INTERACTIVE ART PROJECT by BRENT BIRNBAUM The Bureau of Apology is, at first glance, simply an office. Looks are deceiving and patterns can be quickly deciphered as a murky kind of bureaucratic hell begins to emerge. Visitors will be asked to participate in a progressive [...]
FRIDAY MARCH 29 – 8pm – MUSIC – MATE is a series, curated and organized by Richard Garet, dedicated to sound and moving image presentations that are derived from ideas, processes, material, and media experimentation. This series attempts to present from within a large spectrum of today’s experimentalists, the work of artists that are vigorously [...]
