Performa 07

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

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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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To be … or not to be … that is the question | Reading Group Post V

August 19, 2007 at 6:33 pm · Filed under dance, video, contemporary, reading group, andre lepecki, contemporary dance, performance art, MAIA, exhausting dance, jerome bel, duchamp, shakespeare, pirko husemann, theory, dada, judson

Posted by Maia Jordaan | The Winger Reading Group

Choreographer: Jérôme Bel
Production: The show must go on (2001)
Photo: Laurent Philippe

I propose livening up this Reading Group through conversation – where we all participate in defining this field. I would like to start this conversation by inviting all of you (whether you’ve read Lepecki’s Exhausting Dance or not) to share your viewpoint on this critique of representation/virtuosity through stillness and reduction…

When Jérôme Bel had one of his performers ask this question – “To be … or not to be” – in The Last Performance (1998), he set up a critique of representation. Re-Read this famous Shakespearean quote from Hamlet as:

To represent … or not to represent … that is the question in contemporary dance.

Jérôme Bel critiques representation through stillness … or reduction … as Lepecki points out in Concept and Presence (A chapter in Carter’s book Rethinking Dance History, 2004):

“The contemporary European dance scene can be qualified by one term: ‘reduction’ – of expansiveness, of the spectacular, of the unessential…”

Pirko Husemann points out “on the level of dance an evident fading-away of dance itself prevails. Contemporary European dance becomes less and less danced in the usual sense. Admittedly, this tendency within dance history is no singular occurrence – here mentioned would be only the minimalism of American 1960s postmodern dance.”

This critique of representation is certainly not new. The lineage of this rejection of virtuosity and representation includes amongst others:

Dadaist performances,
Duchamp’s conceptual art,
Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt,
Artaud’s manifesto for a theatre of cruelty,
Performance art,
Happenings,
Installations,
Judson’s minimalism,
as well as postmodern dance in general.
It has also been theorized extensively in critical theory – Derrida; and psycho-analysis – Lacan.

What is your stance? And why?

• Listen to a discussion called “Not Conceptual” between Jonathan Burrows, Jérôme Bel, Bojana Cvejić and Xavier Le Roy.

• Watch the Last Performance lecture.

• Watch a section from The Show Must Go On (Choreographed by Jérôme Bel)

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