Performance Meddles With Media at APAP
While the annual gathering known as APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) is under way through the end of January, New York is awash in festivals—COIL, Under the Radar, American Realness…
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Bearing Witness: A Week of Performance at CANADA
"I, Bear," a week of performances at CANADA Gallery on the Lower East Side, is a musical series with video, or more precisely, a leisurely party with video and, eventually, some music. The performan…
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Art Basel’s Close Ups
With few exceptions, video art isn't a great profit center for galleries. Nonetheless, Art Basel Miami Beach showcased in a fair-sponsored section a collection of videos selected by David Gryn, dir…
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Performance Beyond Miami’s Parties
The tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach was supposed to "reflect a shift toward expanded conceptual, performative and temporal gestures," according to a curatorial statement. But there was little…
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Performa Playbill: The Final Run
But first: where else could you see not one, but two shows that imaginatively incorporated voguing into traditional theater? iona rozeal brown's exuberant, smoothly executed, Kabuki-inspired…
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Performa Playbill: Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat's 40-minute musical pageant OverRuled is a vast undertaking. With 39 actors and 5 extremely capable musicians onstage, the piece was constructed with the help of two playwrights, a…
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Performa Playbill: James Franco and Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate and James Franco's Three Performances in Search of Tennessee was a semi-rehearsed, semi-conceptual piece of theater that invoked the spirit of Tennessee Williams and used two parts…
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Performa Playbill: Gerard Byrne
On Saturday Gerard Byrne staged his one-night Performa 11 work "In Repertory" under the stage of the Abrons Arts Center, in a dank, low-ceilinged rehearsal studio. Without any introduction, a variet…
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Performa Playbill: Frances Stark
Frances Stark's "Put a Song in Your Thing," a one-night-only performance on Nov. 4 at the Abrons Arts Center, combined many disparate elements without synthesizing them.
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Performa Playbill: Elmgreen & Dragset
Performa 11 started Nov. 1, 2011 by staging a play, a reworking of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days by collaborators Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset at NYU's Skirball Center. Joseph Fiennes and…
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