Critical Correspondence
MR Festival 2008: the Time in Travel takes its course by Biba Bell
by Biba Bell MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There We met at the labyrinth in Battery Park, a smallish piece of fresh grass, well soiled with a few trees and a smattering of modernist lounge furniture. Kicking off our shoes after the trek to the South Ferry was an immediate hint to the sensitizing […]
MR Festival 2008: “I Don’t Know, It Must Be Theater”: Site-Specific Performance Rampage by Tonya Plank
by Tonya Plank MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There On Friday night I took part in the mad fun Performance Rampage, a
site-specific performance tour of downtown Manhattan wending from the
Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea to the Judson Memorial Church in the
Village. The tour was led by Jennifer Miller and partner, dressed in
gauzy white skirts […]
MR Festival 2008: Jennifer Monson in clean slate by Karinne Keithley
by Karinne Keithley MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Jennifer Monson performed at the very end of a marathon evening late Thursday, part of the CLEAN SLATE program. As I watched her improvise I experienced one of those rare moments of complete gratitude for being lucky enough to be in the room I was […]
MR Festival 2008: humansacrifice presents reverse futility in the immediate landscape by Biba Bell
by Biba Bell MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There My mom called me as I walked to Judson. My sister brought her to the Dance for Music program curated by Chris Peck, but as a classical pianist the acoustic temperament of the musicians and various instrumentations, along with the particular resonant chamber of Judson’s […]
MR Festival 2008: Performance Rampage by Matthew Lyons
by Matthew Lyons MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There I can appreciate when artists wear their heroes on their sleeves. I remember a friend in college who had a “Prophets” list scribbled on a sheet paper tacked to his dorm room wall. I’ll never forget seeing Kate Bush and The Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser […]
MR Festival 2008: Ian Alteveer on Deke Weaver’s Birds of Prey Assembly (6/5/08)
by Ian Alteveer MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Deke Weaver’s Birds of Prey Assembly, part of Movement Research’s Spring Festival, was transporting. Weaver was first on a program called Clean Slate — words that might call to mind, particularly in this instance, the uneasy memories of the grade-school blackboard. Hourly attempts to wipe […]
MR Festival 2008: SLOW WALK by T. Nikki Cesare
by T. Nikki Cesare MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There 4 June 2008 Embarking upon the guided meditation of Wednesday evening’s Slow Walk, I rather expected to adopt the position of a sort of postmodern flâneur. Not quite as detached and cynical as Baudelaire’s, perhaps, but still remaining somewhat distanced in my peregrinations around […]
MR Festival 2008: Slow Walk by Paulina Pobocha
by Paulina Pobocha MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There “Slow Walk” lead by Chris Peck and described on the Movement Research website as a “guided walking mediation” through the “neighborhood of the Judson Church” began at 6pm, Wednesday evening. Once the group of 12 assembled, Chris properly introduced the piece. The walk would in […]
MR Festival 2008: Dance for Music by Matthew Lyons
by Matthew Lyons MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There As someone who programs both dance and music and produces many interdisciplinary events, I was very interested to see the results of this evening’s program. Talking with the evening’s curator Chris Peck, I learned that he selected the musicians and then asked them to choose […]
MR Festival 2008: 80’s and 90’s On Screen
by Lana Wilson MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There At the end of the 60s and 70s, many New York dancers and choreographers had tired of what some saw as the minimalism, restrictiveness, and lack of meaning in postmodern dance. As Karole Armitage (one of the most noticeable exclusions from this film program) has […]
MR Festival 2008: Distractions at Dusk: Populous by AUNTS by Lana Wilson
by Lana Wilson MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There On Sunday night, well over a hundred people gathered on a rooftop in Bushwick to witness the new performance/party/installation by freewheeling curatorial project AUNTS. The concept underlying the latest iteration of AUNTS was nine simultaneous performances spread across a roof, with the audience wandering, drinking, […]
MR Festival 2008: Transversality Lab: An Austrian/NYC Exchange by Lana Wilson
by Lana Wilson MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There The three performances I saw yesterday as part of Transversality Lab (an arts exchange between five artists from Austria and five from New York) all had one thing in common—debris. In yet another sign that the boundaries between contemporary dance and visual art are growing […]
MR Festival 2008: Ringing Rocks by Karinne Keithley
by Karinne Keithley MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There On Sunday about 23 or 24 of us got into a few vans and drove to Pennsylvania’s Ringing Rocks park to go hit rocks with hammers to make them ring. Composer Seth Cluett met us there, set the structure for the day, and later we […]
MR Festival 2008: Frenzied Traveler on the Silent Ride II by Tonya Plank
by Tonya Plank MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There I don’t know how much of a “review” this is going to be since,
unfortunately, I wasn’t able personally to partake of much of the
event, but I’ll try. I’d agreed to write about the Silent Ride II
workshop, which was to take place first in Battery Park […]
MR Festival 2008: Populous by AUNTS by Jenn Joy
by Jenn Joy MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Sunday, 1 June 2008, 8pm A pink streamer floats down onto Thames Street as we leave Officeops. An elegant floating trace of the transient encounters with dance witnessed along the horizon lines of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The transposition of bodies against distant skyscrapers and closer […]
