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 [...]
FRIDAY MARCH 22 – 7.30PM – READING – Writers from the Bennington College MFA Program and Beyond converge. Featuring acclaimed novelist Alice Mattison, Liz Arnold, Jeremy Oldfield, T. Glen Coughlin, Willa Carroll, Amy Herrick, Jackie Corley, Julia Lichtblau Alice Mattison, Brooklyn native and Bennington faculty member, has written six novels and five story collections. The [...]
FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY – 8pm (CATCH→AUNTS) – SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY- 8pm (AUNTS→CATCH) Catch, “everyone’s favorite” multidisciplinary performance and video series, trades fundamentals and formats with AUNTS, a dance/performance/party event “keeping the spirit of experimentation alive,” for two nights of performance FEBRUARY 22 CATCH→AUNTS will make dance happen with a night of performance and good old fashioned [...]
FEBRUARY 13-16 – 7.30PM – THEATER – THE RECORD by 600 HIGHWAYMEN – The Record is a theatrical portrait of 35 people who come together for 57 minutes over four consecutive evenings to perform for an audience. The subject is themselves; the time is now. In conjunction with a sweeping, live soundscape that reflects both [...]
FEBRUARY 7-9 – 7.30PM – INSTALLATION WITH PERFORMANCE – VEAL by HARRISON ATELIER – VEAL is the newest work from multidisciplinary design collective Harrison Atelier (HAt). HAt principals Seth and Ariane Harrison and their collaborators have created a large-scale sculptural and sound installation, featuring a contemporary dance performance, exploring the development of the ecology of [...]
JANUARY 24 – 26 – 7.30PM – DANCE – THE DAEDALUS EFFECT AND OTHER DILEMMAS by ARTURO VIDICH – Vidich’s The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas is a piece about work. As the creator and performer, Vidich assumes both the mythical persona of Daedalus, the taciturn engineer who invented the labyrinth, and Icarus, his ill-fated [...]
JANUARY 10 – 14 – DANCE – SACRE by DAVID WAMPACH – An extreme experience: a man and a woman nearly breathe the life out of each other. This is how French choreographer David Wampach opens up a new perspective on Vaslav Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring in his latest piece SACRE. Together with dancer [...]
SUNDAY JANUARY 13 – 3PM – DANCE – READY TO KISS [PRET A BAISER] – OLIVIER DUBOIS – From “The rite of spring” of Igor Stravinski with musical arrangements by Francois Caffenne. « My Muse… With my mouth, I will carne you With my kiss, I will satisfy the insatiable and morbid condition of my [...]
DEC 11 – 16 & DEC 18 – 22 – 8PM & 9.30PM – DANCE – THE SHINING by Yvonne Meier – Presented by New York Live Arts – Back by popular demand, The Shining is a thrilling dance-installation set inside the intricate maze of 350 refrigerator boxes. Originally created and performed in 1993 at [...]
