Up at the Reader and a great read: Laura Molzahn’s review of Excavation of Remains.
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:07::2009
More remains.
Posted in News, Reviews | Tags: atalee judy, breakbone danceco., chicago reader, excavation of remains, laura molzahn
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:06::2009
You know you love it.
Katie Holmes.
I don’t watch So You Think You Can Dance? out of any kind of snobby, elitist attitude toward the wildly-popular series but simply because I haven’t turned on the TV — for anything — in months. What few episodes I’ve seen, while not exactly transformative witnessings of lucid art, have been nothing if not entertaining. If you are following the show, why not catch tomorrow’s finale at T’s Bar and Restaurant in Andersonville? T’s is great food and people and Inaside Chicago Dance are taking advantage of the establishment’s generous nature to raise funds for the company and for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago beginning at 6:00pm. Watching TV at home on a Thursday night? I won’t shame you for it. Doing the same thing for next to nothing ($5) for not one but two great causes? Fierce.
Posted in News | Tags: andersonville, fox, inaside chicago dance, katie holmes, mary murphy, mia michaels, nigel lythgoe, so you think you can dance, t's bar
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:06::2009
Makeovers.
New websites are up for Dim Sum Dance and Visceral Dance Chicago — check ’em out.
Posted in News | Tags: dim sum dance, visceral dance chicago
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:02::2009
Ha!
Posted by: trailerpilot | 07:31::2009
Gotta dance.
The NETSational Seniors: Adorable.
Also on Flavorwire, Takehiro Ueyama talks to Michelle Vellucci about not wanting to live in Chicago and life after Taylor.
Posted in Flavorpill, News | Tags: dori berinstein, flavorwire, michelle vellucci, nba, netsational seniors, paul taylor, takehiro ueyama
Posted by: trailerpilot | 07:30::2009
Excavation of Remains
Breakbone DanceCo. in Excavation of Remains. Photo by Carl Wiedemann.
Being in the presence of death — even just thinking about it — induces in people behavior radically different than theirs is in any other circumstance. Profound mystery and the ultimate end lead many to become erratic or inappropriate, not to mention uncomfortable. Something of this common reaction seems to have come over Atalee Judy’s newest work Excavation of Remains: In the face of death, its announced subject matter, it hurries and flinches, laughs nervously and shifts in its seat. A powerful, unique work might be excavated from within this material, but in present form it illuminates neither its performers nor the (mostly) real-life characters they portray. Click here to read the entire article at SeeChicagoDance.com
Posted in Reviews, SeeChicagoDance | Tags: atalee judy, breakbone danceco., SeeChicagoDance
Posted by: trailerpilot | 07:29::2009
Update.
Family members of Larry Long’s have been posting comments on my earlier post about his accident and injury. Apparently Mr. Long continues to be in critical but stable condition. His wife, Dolores Lipinski, is receiving flowers and cards for them both at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 North Dearborn Street, Chicago 60610. Hang in there, Larry — we love you.
Posted in News | Tags: dolores lipinski, larry long, ruth page center for the arts
Posted by: trailerpilot | 07:29::2009
2D.
"cry baby" by Hogan McLaughlin, 2009. Ink and blood on paper.
I love finding out about dancers’ other talents. Chicagoan Hogan McLaughlin has both a web gallery and blog project that house his multiple non-dance artistic forays. His in a cabin in the woods series, besides underlining an apparent obsession with cabins, calls to mind a broad set of influences from Paul Klee to Shel Silverstein to Tony Millionaire. More drawings depict doe-eyed assassins and floating, Gorey-esque wraiths, while cry baby (above) and others remind me of the Expressionist grotesquerie of Egon Schiele. Worth checking out.
Posted in Not Dance | Tags: art, drawing, edward gorey, egon schiele, hogan mclaughlin, paul klee, shel silverstein, tony millionaire
Posted by: trailerpilot | 07:27::2009
Special effects.
I realize the evolution of such things is the result of painstaking work by dedicated folks, but as with anything one doesn’t follow regularly it seems more like the state of the art leaps forward in sudden bursts. Case in point: Projection tech — first I catch the trailer for the upcoming 3D remake/sequel of Tron, and now this poetic reskinning of O.M. Ungers‘ Galerie der Gegenwart in light. Wow.
(via Engadget)
Posted in News, Not Dance | Tags: galerie der gegenwart, hamburger kunsthalle, o.m. ungers, projection art, tron, urbanscreen
Posted by: trailerpilot | 07:27::2009
Merce Cunningham, April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009.
The Times‘ full obituary hasn’t yet been written, but the sad news is out: Merce Cunningham has passed away.
Update: Alistair Macaulay’s tear-jerker is online and here.
Here’s to Merce and John, together again.
Posted in News | Tags: merce cunningham, the new york times
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