Saturday, April 6, 2013
Last summer I went out to Los Angeles at the invitation of my friend Ben who introduced me to the Miami-based dance sensation Rosie Herrera, who was working a look kind of like this: In the …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 05:06PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Fusebox Festival blogger Shannon McCormick reporting from Austin, TX. For the past nine years, Austin’s Fusebox Festival has sought to bring a sense of local, national, and international c…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 01:32PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Culturebot contributor Tim Braun reporting from Austin, TX. The city of Austin has a festival almost every week now. South by Southwest, Austin City Limits, The Moontower Comedy Festival, …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 08:09PMAny given day in NYC brings hundreds of choices of things to do and Culturebot Scanner is here to help put the good stuff on your radar. Here are some events to check out over the next two w…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 03:35PMMonday, March 18, 2013
Culturebot contributor Tim Braun sends this report from SXSW in Austin, TX.
Linked From culturebytes.org at 07:31PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
With the Occupy Movement arising in the wake of the financial crisis, finally calling attention to income disparity and economic inequality, we’ve become familiar with the idea of the …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 12:07PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Chicago-spawned and now Brooklyn-based art duo Cupola Bobber (the collaboration of Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers) perform their latest project The Field, the Mantel this weekend, March 1…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 06:23PMThis week and next, March (14-17 and 21-24) the Massachusetts-based No Theater return to New York City to perform Richard Maxwell’s Caveman at The Performing Garage ~ 33 Wooster Street T…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 07:42AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
Here are some awesome events coming up in the next few weeks, starting with a showing TONIGHT! Mark your calendars and check out these performances/symposiums/opportunities: Mårten Spångb…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 12:58PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Tele-Violet’s Lady Han, which refracts the 15th century Noh drama through the goggles of an Americana fever dream, premiered at Incubator Arts Project this month. The emerging NYC …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 09:12AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Aretha Aoki’s Las Gravitas, a solo about making a solo, ran last weekend at Danspace Project, in a shared evening with Benjamin Kimitch who presented a duet between Julie McMillan and Cl…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 11:58AMSunday, February 24, 2013
So when I edited the third part of my essay on the Politics of Cultural Production in Theater, a bunch of stuff ended up on the cutting room floor for future consideration. This didn̵…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 07:18AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
It’s hard to know what to talk about first after seeing a play with robot actors. Last Friday, I saw the Robot Theater Project at Japan Society, a program of two plays, Sayonara and I, Wor…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 09:53AMDouglas Dunn’s Cassations, which ran last weekend at Danspace Project, opens with seven multi-colored flower sculptures scattered throughout St. Mark’s sanctuary, which are carried offst…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 09:36AMMonday, February 11, 2013
Editor’s Note: Responses to given shows have a short shelf-life. This is a response to a show that we didn’t originally intend to publish a response to, in fact. Originally, I in…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 11:37PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Oh, the puppets! Last last weekend took me to Erin Courtney’s The Service Road directed by Meghan Finn in an Adhesive Theater Project production at the New York City College of Techn…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 09:09AMThis episode of American Dad is probably one of the most insightful critiques of the state of mainstream American theater that I’ve ever seen. It hilariously skewers the torpid writing…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 05:47AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is excited to announce the 2013-2014 DANCE MOViES Commission. This is an open call for artists, …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 01:33PMMagic at its most serious mysterious… There’s something ironic and beautiful and oh-so-meta about this. The Box, formerly the den of iniquity of choice for the debauched and glamoro…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 05:53AMSunday, January 27, 2013
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak (via Skype) to the Theatre Criticism class at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was a lot of fun, they were great kids and asked fantastic quest…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 08:31PMArturo Vidich’s performance piece The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas is memorable, if unpleasant. It begins with Arturo seated in the center of The Invisible Dog, on a crude one-legged…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 09:02AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
Back in April, Culturebot was invited to curate a week of events as part of Exit Art’s grand closing-down retrospective; our exhibit, “Ephemeral Evidence,” granted one-day …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 10:58AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
THE PERFORMING GARAGE PRESENTS AN OPEN STUDIO SHOWING OF Jim Findlay DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER A PERFORMANCE FOR A SLEEPING AUDIENCE Take a deeply ambient journey through Cao Xueqin’s 1…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 08:49AMMonday, January 21, 2013
American Realness on Friday featured Jeanine Durning, Faye Driscoll, Tony Rizzi and Miguel Gutierrez all pushing in their own ways. I want to crawl inside Durning’s head after experiencing…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 06:02PMSunday, January 20, 2013
As January festival season wraps up, I want to touch on a few of the pieces I’ve caught at the Public’s Under the Radar Festival that I haven’t yet had a chance to. Belarus…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 01:01AMFrench choreographer David Wampach‘s Sacre at the Invisible Dog Art Center (unrecognizable- its white gallery/warehouse vibe magically transformed into a black box theater) was a brief…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 09:14PMSaturday, January 19, 2013
I loved the little perspective window of the backyard! The sound the old blow-dryer made! How alienating to see non-alienated acting! Last Saturday took me to the Public for The Debate Socie…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 06:43PMThursday, January 17, 2013
My experience of Leev Theater Group’s Hamlet, Prince of Grief (which runs through January 20th at Under the Radar) began as soon as I unwrapped myself from my winter gear and found a good …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 08:06AMTuesday, January 15, 2013
Incubator Arts Project’s Other Forces presented the return of Nellie Tinder‘s Evelyn, now Evelyn in Concert, this month. I would say, “Go!” like Andy did when …
Linked From culturebytes.org at 10:28AMA Sunday marathon at American Realness instigated thoughts about consent, the public sphere and collisions among artists. The refined schedule and pace of Ben Pryor’s festival feels welcom…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 09:19AMMonday, January 14, 2013
Dear European Friends in town for Under The Radar, Coil and American Realness, (& audiences who don’t live in our little contemporary performing arts world all the time) may I have you…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 08:28PM 
