Archive for September, 2006
September 30, 2006 at 8:25 am · Filed under ballet, choreographers, friends, DAVID
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| Posted by David
Mr. Matthew Murphy, best friend extrodinaire, and now extremly talented budding choreographer, will be making his choreographic debut this week at an inventive venue called P.S. 122. You may know Matt from HIS blog at rantingdetails.blogspot.com but if you dont, you are sure to love his take on life just as much as the Winger.
Dance Off is an event held at P.S. 122 for dancers and admirers alike that want to take part in the showcase of budding dancers and choreographers. Well, Matt is one of them and is dancing a duet with Blaine Hoven, also of ABT, with music by Shostakovich. I have only caught a glimpse of what he has created and it looks very good and very promising!!!
Bravo for Matt!!!!
Link to his blog
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September 29, 2006 at 12:35 pm · Filed under SLOAN, ballet, dance, dance event, events, modern
| | Posted by Sloan
A glimpse of the INSANITY outside City Center for the opening night of Fall For Dance.
I still can’t get over what a great thing this is.
First of all, it’s just amazing to see so many different companies in one evening (for $10, no less!). Second, I think it just makes so much sense.
Dance companies expect people to pay upwards of $30 dollars to take a chance and see a performance, when they might have no idea if they even like the company or the kind of dance they do. There are soooo many options for how you can spend an evening in New York, that you want to be fairly sure that you’re going to enjoy what you are spending your time and money on.
You can take friends’ recommendations, or journalists’ recommendations, but it in the end it’s really all about your own personal taste. Unfortunately companies here don’t give enough of a glimpse of what they offer (even though we have the internet and video!), so this is the best kind of preview you could ask for! And if you don’t like one company, there are four others during the evening which you might like.
I really enjoyed four out of the five pieces/companies I saw. I was really impressed by the last piece by Pennsylvania Ballet too. There was a really good part for Riolama Lorenzo, who used to be with NYCB, and she looked incredible!
The view of the sold out house form our seats, all the way up.
On the right, the Fall For Dance lounge. This used to be sponsored by our friends at Flavorpill, but I guess it’s not anymore.
So… a new goal for The Winger 
I believe this lounge was originally conceived as a place where the audience and artists could mingle after the show (how Winger-esque!), perhaps we can find a way of sponsoring it, or at least be involved with it, next year.
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September 28, 2006 at 4:06 pm · Filed under dance, computers, studio, dancers, video, podcast, technology, vidcast, TONY, dance and technology, break dance, computer vision, sarah lawrence
| | Posted by Tony
I have of late become obsessed with time machines. They are everywhere and my apprehension of them is expanding. In our contemporary landscape, where space is almost fully dominated, time is the frontier and battleground. Telling radical history and making radical culture shapes the future. Time machines are war machines and in the hands of both propagandists and bandits. We make them today with cameras and computers.
Cinema is a time machine. Cool thought, but others came up with it first. Bergson and Deleuze helped develop this line of thinking. One idea: images pass messages between the past and future through the present interface of memory and perception. The creation of art and culture is a mode of tele-portation and time-travel. These portals are accessed through viewership and cognition. Another idea: cinema’s control of moving images frees storytelling from the dictated velocity and chronology of time. Our modern media technologies are time machines in their capacity to stretch, cut and manipulate the time-code. This is transformative to our consciousness, interaction…and our dancing.
Time machines have become the theme of the first few weeks of my Dance and Technology class at Sarah Lawrence College. One of our first projects uses differential time rates to escape the perceptual confines of a Newtonian clockwork universe. The goal is to give dancers cinematic control over time contractions and dilations, while they are dancing. Computer vision algorithms are used to combine dancing and cinematography into a single practice. The record rate continually responds to the dancer’s input, providing equal amounts of visual flux between successive frames. If there is much action in the visual field the camera speeds up to catch it. If the dancing slows to an adagio the camera slows down too.
Have a look at what kind of visual artifact it creates and think what kind of time machine you would like to dance with.
Algorithm and Dance: Tony Schultz
Music: “Turkish” by Disco Nap
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September 27, 2006 at 5:26 pm · Filed under dance, dance event, recommendations, GIA, picks, GIA PICKS, brooklyn, bam
| | Posted by Gia
Sarah Michelson is my absolute favorite choreographer—she makes her BAM debut with “Dogs,” a work that I know little about (that’s the way she likes it) but have been looking forward to for years. Her work is rigorous and daring, conventionally and unconventionally beautiful, and full of rigor. This will be her last dance, I fear, so please, please go.
www.bam.org
Oct 18–21 at 7:30pm.
$20–$40.
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September 26, 2006 at 3:34 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dance, choreographers, dance event, parties, dancers, video, events, press, art, samsung, brooklyn, invite, dance and technology
| | Posted by Sloan
Ok, so I blew it last Saturday and didn’t make it to Agora II (the site specific dance performance/social experiment by Noémie Lafrance) as I had hoped and posted about before, (rain, friends birthday parties… excuses, excuses).
Anyhow, it seems to have worked out ok, because this is the last week (09.27-10.01) that Agora II will be at McCarren Park Pool and on Friday they are going all out! They’ve invited Critical Mass to join in the form of 500 bicycles riding through the performance, and there will be a huge dance party after the show!
Note that when buying tickets to the show you have the option of being a either a Viewer or a Player.
From my understanding, people that opt to be Players are allowed into the pool at certain points during the performance and given some basic choreography to do within the show.
The good news is that The Winger has been granted PRESS access.
I’ll be there on FRIDAY, shooting the performance as a “Player” with my hands-free Samsung Sportscam (It’s inaugural outing).
Also, readers of The Winger get a 25% discount on tickets!
Enter Code: POOL at checkout.
And if you’ve already seen Agora II this year, you can bring your program and ticket stub on Friday to get $10 tickets to the show and party.
So, between the discount, and the fact that I’ll be there shooting…
How about getting a team of Wingers out on FRIDAY night for the performance and the party?
Whether you want to be a Player or Viewer, we can all congregate afterwards at the party. Drop me a line so that I know to look out for you.
C’mon. It’ll be fun!
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September 25, 2006 at 9:25 pm · Filed under SLOAN, me, parties, photo shoot, media, events, lifestyle, photo
Photo © Louis Seigal
| | Posted by Sloan
At the Good Magazine party last week (which included the infamous Al run-in I posted about earlier), there was a photographer taking these shots, which were the same as the cover on their first issue, only you could write in your own title with a dry-erase marker. Kinda cute.
I wonder how Al’s came out…
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