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November 7, 2007 at 2:12 am · Filed under dance, events, san francisco, choreographer, choreography, muriel maffre, BRIAN, TAGsf, the artist group, garen scribner
A pic of dancer Garen Scribner, shot by Ben Wardell.
Damn it is only Tuesday!
Last week-end I went up the coast for some much needed R&R. It is the last week-end of the year that I will be able to get away so i made it a point to do some cold ice chilling.
Now that i am back we have a lot of work to do in the next couple of weeks. We have a couple performances coming up the 16th and 17th of this month in collaboration with a new organization called Urban Art Farm. This will be our first San Francisco debut as The Artist Group.
Putting together a well constructed evening entails of so much nit picky work that makes putting the show together the easy part. It is all of the details that make it a strenuous experience. Budget, space, dancers, costumes, flights, advertising and everything else under the sun all have to be factored in. All of this coming from a balance of zero. This is where i use the age long practice of “The Secret” (thanks Oprah)
With that said… Dana, our coordinator for TAG has made this event possible. Within a few days time, she has raised enough money for us to fly out two of the dancers from NYC who arrive on Thursday. She is making it possible for me to come in and do the “work”. Really, I could not have asked for a better person for the job. She is well organized, efficient and such a huge talent.
The event itself is going to be cool. TAG is going to present 2 new pieces as well as a world premiere film featuring Muriel Maffre, edited by Ben Peirce. Dana and I had the opportunity to watch the film last week. It is simply beautiful. It reminds me of the film “Spirited Away” in a varied context.
I will be posting pics of the rehearsals with the dancers later on this week. Im thinking about posting the Sea Ranch trip too, but we got a little excited with trying to be like Americas Next Top Model. Tyra, you are ruining our lives.. But in a sexy way:)
Below is our new logo.
Thoughts please?
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October 25, 2007 at 4:01 pm · Filed under dance, events, recommendations, GIA, GIA PICKS, new york city, performances, xavier le roy, jerome bel, judson, peforma, visual art, marie cool, fabio balducci, carlos amorales, russel maliphant, isaac julien, pablo bronstein, grand union, kelly nipper, yvonne rainer
Dearest wingers — It’s time to sit in the audience. It’s time to wash Nacho Duato out of your hair. Performa 07, the second edition of a biennial focusing on new visual art performance and established by RoseLee Goldberg, runs Oct 27–Nov 20 — the schedule is endlessly confusing, so I’m just going to list the events that fall under the category of “Dance After Choreography.”
But please check out the website (performa-arts.org) because there is plenty of other fascinating stuff—Pete Drungle’s Continuous 24-hour Solo Piano Improvisation at SculptureCenter, the Israeli artist Tamy Ben-Tor at Salon 94 and Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Redoing). I put ** on the things I really care about.
And to remember — not everything will be good, This is a chance to learn a lot in a short amount of time — it will be overwhelming — and just because people look like artists doesn’t mean they are. xoxo
November 2 from 6-8 pm
MARIE COOL AND FABIO BALDUCCI, Untitled (Prayers, 1996-2007)
The Clocktower Gallery, 108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor
Tickets: $14/$12 PERFORMA Members, $10 students, performa-arts.org
November 10-17 with performances at 1 and 2 pm daily
CARLOS AMORALES, Spider Galaxy
590 Madison (The Atrium)
FREE
November 6, 8-10 at 7:30 pm
ISAAC JULIEN AND RUSSELL MALIPHANT, Cast No Shadow
BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street
Tickets: $45/$35/$30/$20, www.bam.org or (718) 636-4100
November 7 from 2-5:30 pm
PABLO BRONSTEIN, Plaza Minuet
World Financial Center, One New York Plaza, 60 Wall Street and 375 Hudson Street—please check performa-arts.org for starting location
FREE
** November 7-10 at 7:30 pm
JEROME BEL, Pichet Klunchen and Myself
Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street
Tickets: $25/$15 DTW and PERFORMA Members, dtw.org or (212) 691-6500
** November 12 at 7:30 pm
Dance After Choreography: An Evening with Grand Union
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
Tickets: $8/$6 students, seniors children/$5 Anthology and PERFORMA Members, available day of show at the Anthology Film Archives Box Office
In this event Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis, and Yvonne Rainer — members of the improvisational group Grand Union — reunite for the first time since the group’s dissolution in 1976. it should be hilarious.
November 13 at 7:30 pm
Dance After Choreography: From Judson to the Present
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
Tickets: $8/$6 students, seniors children/$5 Anthology and PERFORMA Members, available day of show at the Anthology Film Archives Box Office
November 13-15 at 7 pm
MARKUS SCHINWALD & OLEG SOULIMENKO, Stage Matrix I
Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
November 14-16 at 8:30 pm
KELLY NIPPER, Floyd on the Floor
The Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
** November 15-17 at 7 pm
XAVIER LE ROY, Le Sacre Du Printemps
Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
** November 16-17 at 8 pm
AIDA RUILOVA, The Silver Globe
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street
Tickets: $10, 212-255-5793 ext.11
** November 17 from 12-3 pm
NOT FOR SALE: Dance and Conceptual Art in Visual Arts
The Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
Tickets: $5, www.performa-arts.org
** November 18 at 4 pm
Dance After Choreography: The French Aftershock
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
Tickets: $8/$6 students, seniors children/$5 Anthology and PERFORMA Members, available day of show at the Anthology Film Archives Box Office
Two films are shown: Boris Charmatz & Dimitri Chamblas’s Les Disparates and Jerôme Bel’s Veronique Doisneau.
** November 18-19 at 7 pm
YVONNE RAINER, RoS Indexical
The Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
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May 26, 2007 at 2:42 am · Filed under SLOAN, ballet, events, science, mobile, maya angelou, museum of natural history, flavorpill, astronomy
Posted by Sloan | via mobile phone
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May 26, 2007 at 2:37 am · Filed under SLOAN, events, science, mobile, museum of natural history, astronomy, flavorpill.net, robert redford
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January 22, 2007 at 7:49 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dance, video, events, lvhrd, architects
Posted by Sloan
This past August, as some of you may remember, thewinger.com helped hold auditions for LVHRD’s (live hard without the vowels) Battle of the Moves II dance competition. Once the auditions were over and the contestants were chosen, it was time for the actual event, which was held on August 29th in a private loft space in the Flatiron District of Manhattan.
LVHRD has just released the first segment of their video documentation of the auditions and of the actual event, which Gia Kourlas, Tracy Inman, Chris Chris and I judged. (I’m dressed as Cleopatra because we were supposed to come dressed as our favorite dance move - i.e. “walk like an egyptian”). So enjoy the first segment of video, and keep your eyes peeled for the second.
In the mean time, LVHRD is holding another battle/event called the Architect’s Duel III tomorrow Jan. 23rd at 8PM. In this event, two competing architects are given a brief moments before they begin building models in front of a live audience. The two teams cannot see each other during the process and the audience votes on the best model.
Above photo by Leo Zacharias, from last year’s Architect’s Duel II with Arquitectonica and Grzywinski Pons.
This year, it is an all female battle between the architecture firms of Balmori Associates and Field Operations.
True to LVHRD style, the venue is not revealed until the day of the event, when you receive a text message communicating the exact location. But in order to get that precious message, you must visit the LVHRD site to register and purchase tickets.
LVHRD Architect’s Duel III
Tuesday, January 23rd
8pm
members, $11
non-members, $22
lvhrd.com to purchase tickets.
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December 18, 2006 at 4:23 pm · Filed under SLOAN, schools, student, events, lifestyle, manhattan, technology, science
| | Posted by Sloan
Yesterday, during my hour break between Nutcracker shows, I finally got to go to NYU’s ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) Winter Show, where the students display their work. (I’ve wanted to go for a long time, but performances have made it impossible in the past).
There was so much interesting stuff there it was a bit overwhelming. Also overwhelming is the feeling that I wish I could play around and make some of this stuff too! Maybe someday 
Our friend Dens, who’s responsible for an awesome little program called dodgeball, studied there and is now one of their esteemed teachers.
Above is a photo of me using this wand thing to create pretty designs on the screen in front of me. Below, Doug tries it out.
The set up looked just like the set-up with the red lights that Tony had in his black suit with the little white balls (check out his profile page).
The wand has sensors on either end and their position in space determines what is happening on the screen.
Here is a wall of paper disks with black and white patterns printed on them. There is a tiny camera embedded in the wall which makes it possible for the wall to read the light and shadow of what’s in front of it, and mimic it by rotating the disks to reveal the corresponding lighter or darker parts.
This one was really neat… an interactive dollhouse that told the darker versions of well-known fairy tales. (example: hansel and gretel was actually a story relating to a common form of infanticide, where parents who could not afford to feed their children, would abandon them in the woods.)
As you turned the page of the story book, a different room in the dollhouse would light up, sometimes with moving parts inside. There were tiny video camera’s inside the house that showed the interior perspective of the rooms on the screen to the left of the house.
Above, video of individual people, projected into glass jars.
This was SO cool looking, and a bit creepy. I think there were seven different-shaped jars with seven “trapped” people, each with a unique look and personality.
There was also a sensor built into the table that the jars were on. When you, or your hand, got too close to the jars, the little people would start getting angry and try to shoo you away, each in their own individual way.
And finally…
A solar powered bikini.
Makes it possible to have endless hours of tunes from your ipod or other electronic device while lounging on the beach.
Functional - yes.
Comfortable - probably not.
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