Today I had an eleven o’clock screening of Lapinthrope, followed by a lecture on arts filmmaking in the cinema department of Universidad Nacionnal in Bogotá…. I spoke about digital filmmaking and made a strong case for the future being digital and not chemical.
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The first real show of the Tanzquartier season. The week before saw solo performances by Dutch creator Robert Steijn and Lebanese choreographer .
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The final result of their artistic investigation were three twelve hour shows in Vienna’s Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, the same venue used by the Bürgtheater for their monthly experimental one-off productions and site of many of the after performance parties for shows in Akademietheater…. I had gone to the Alternative Dream Asylum in the company of choreographer Mala Kline who sat down at one of the computer stations and commenced a wonderful impromptu reading from the screen of the free verse concocted by the Choreographer’ Venture participants.
Leave a CommentYesterday one of the choreographers about whose piece I had written expressed surprise at the style of my reviews. She felt that there was not as much analysis of the idea behind the show as she would like.
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The curtain is wide open and A drum set in the middle back of the stage…. Two women pace back and forth at the front of the stage examining spectat A man crosses the stage in woman’s shoe.
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From left to right: a panel written over English, the image of the artist pressed up against the wall, a panel written over in German: The initial message is this: hey dude i have talent, i’m just here waiting for god The artist bends over to each panel to change the writing gradually…. After about seven minutes, she finally rises and comes into the darkened theatre via the spectator entrance.
Leave a CommentAn enormous set of windows letting natural light stream in from overhead…. A crowd of one hundred and fifty spectators gathered around the dance floor.
Leave a CommentIlluminated in the middle Raw wooden tables in a large closed circle. The audience seated in two rows, around the ring, the second row on a raised platform.
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