Eleanor & Eleanor / Not About Everything

Our next (and last) live performance will take place on Friday, at 7:30pm, when we go to see “Eleanor & Eleanor” by Beth Gill and “Not about Everything,” by Daniel Linehan at Dance Theater Workshop.

According to DTW’s website, “Eleanor & Eleanor” is “an assignment in aesthetics and a meditation on personal history and mythology,” and “Not About Everything” “is about the basics. It is about rhythm and change. It is about language and meaning. It is about action and inaction and supreme limitation.”

Sounds intriguing. But how are these concepts embodied physically in the work? And how do we put our own thoughts about dance into words? Dance TRaC instructor Brian McCormick – as well as, perhaps, dancer Danny Linehan – will come to our class on Thursday to give us some pointers.

We will meet on Friday at 7pm at the theater. It is located at 219 West 19th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, in Chelsea. The closest subway stop is the 1 train stop at 18th Street. You can also take the A, C, or E to 14th Street and walk five blocks north and a half-block east to the theater. See you there!

The Brothers Size

Gilbert Owuor and Brian Tyree Henry in The Brothers Size
(© Michal Daniel)

The Brothers Size on the Public Theater website is linked here! If you google the show, there's a lot of reviews out there.

Also, Eisa posted about the show on the Theater TRaC Blog. More cross-pollination. Check it out!

run time: 1hr. 15min.
no intermission

This Thursday - TONY Theater Critic David Cote!

This Thursday we’re in for a real treat: David Cote, Time Out New York’s chief theater critic, is going to speak to us about his career path from director/performer to one of the most influential theater critics in the city. He’ll talk about the challenges of his work and discuss some particularly insightful and controversial reviews he's written, and answer your questions about the ups and downs of the reviewer’s life.

In addition to working for TONY, David has written for the New York Times, Maxim, Opera News and The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. He is a member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, a contributing critic on NY1’s On Stage, and the author of two books – Wicked: The Grimmerie, a behind-the-scenes look the Broadway musical Wicked, and a new book about Jersey Boys. David keeps a foot in the theater scene as well. In the 1990s, he was a performer and director, mostly in avant-garde productions below 14th Street by Richard Foreman, Richard Maxwell and others. Now he’s the Public Dramaturge for Montclair State University’s cutting-edge Peak Performance series. He received his B.A. from Bard College. He muses about theater, books, and religion on his blog, www.histriomastix.typepad.com.