The Battle Tomorrow

BATTLEWORKS DANCE COMPANY

@ the Joyce Theater

See Robert Battle's Reel Time, a collaboration with composer John King that explores social interactions through a deconstruction of traditional folk dance. Juba, a company premiere, will feature a live rendition of John Mackey's propulsive string and percussion score. Completing the evening will be two new solos, Ella and In/Side, and the perennial favorite Overture.

Regular Ticket Price
$34; Joyce Members $26

Your Ticket Price
FREE!

WHERE TO GO and WHEN TO GET THERE....

The Joyce Theater
175 8th Ave. (at the corner of 19th St.)
New York, NY 10011

By subway:
A, C, E, to 14th Street OR the L train to 8th Avenue OR the 1 train to 18th Street (& 7th Ave.)

Be at the Joyce Theater no later than 7:30pm!

Your assignment:
A little pre-show research. (Research is such an...academic word. Sorry.) Check out Robert Battle, The Battleworks Dance Company, and The Joyce Theater. Read over their websites, look at their organization missions, browse Robert's biography. There are Battleworks videos on YouTube and reviews of their work available if you just drop the company name in a Google search. Come with some understanding of what you're going to see - and maybe with a few questions you'd ask Robert!

See you at 7:30 tomorrow evening!

Summer TRaC at Deitch Projects

OS GEMEOS
TOO FAR TOO CLOSE

June 28 — August 09, 2008
18 Wooster Street, New York

In Too Far Too Close, Os Gemeos will be transforming the gallery into a fantastical cityscape with houses, doors, and passageways, all brought to life with their signature style of imagery. Building upon a group of artworks created for the Museum Het Domein in the Netherlands, this show features new paintings, sculpture, and installation bringing all the magical moments of their work together in one tightly knit dream world of an exhibition.

Meat Love

As I mentioned....



Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others.

Švankmajer has gained a reputation over several decades for his distinctive use of stop-motion technique, and his ability to make surreal, nightmarish and yet somehow funny pictures. He is still making films in Prague at the time of writing.

I posted a Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat film montage on the TRaC Facebook page, too, if you want to check that out.

Tuesday and Thursday, July 22 and 24, 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
At our third class, we
-Free-wrote about a fly, watching our writing process, for about 20 minutes. Then, some of us shared.
-Got into pairs to discuss an article of Whisper and of Passing Strange in The New York Times.
-Got into other pairs to review each other’s work.
-Got a revised copy of “Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start to Write About a Performance.”

Thursday, July 24, 2008
We went to
-The Drawing Center to see the works of Frederick Kiesler in the Main Gallery.
-The building across the street to see the Drawing on Film exhibit. This exhibit was entrancing and hypnotizing.. literally!
-Deitch and were awe-struck by its colorfulness, the last ten minutes it was open. It was a really fun place to hang out! (“The Love Shack” and “The Dance Club”)
-See the recreation of Keith Harring’s Houston and Street and Bowery Mural.

-We got/ collected handouts from the museums.

Espo: I was the only one that signed the guest books. 0=]

Assignments
1) Send Eric any revised drafts of your work.
2) Let him know if you want particular feedback on anything.

The Drawing Center tomorrow!

Bärbel Neubauer, "Roots," 1996. 35mm film, 3:44 min. © Bärbel Neubauer. Courtesy Center for Visual Music. (Film still.)


Tomorrow, we go downtown to the only non-profit institution in the country to focus on the exhibition of drawings: aptly named, THE DRAWING CENTER. It was established in 1977 to "demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history, to juxtapose work by master figures with work by emerging and under-recognized artists, and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture."

We'll be seeing one of their current exhibitions (on its last day!) called "Drawing on Film." From the website: "Drawing on Film will survey the practice of “direct film”—the process of drawing, scratching, or otherwise manipulating film stock to create images without a camera. The exhibition will present works spanning from the late 1930s to the present and will highlight an overlooked facet of experimental film. Many of the works to be exhibited are seminal films in the history of the genre—including Len Lye's A Colour Box and Norman McLaren's Blinkity Blank—while other, more contemporary works are being screened for the first time."

Leading us through the exhibition will be one of the curators of the show, Joanna Kleinberg! (What is a curator, you ask? Click here, I say.)


WHERE AND WHEN TO MEET:
(You have two options.)

EITHER: come to the High 5 office by 3:45pm and a group of us will head downtown together. We're leaving as soon as everyone who is coming to meet us gets there. Write eric an email if you are coming to High 5 at 3:45.

OR: meet us at The Drawing Center at 4:20pm, sharp! The Drawing Center is located at 35 Wooster Street in Manhattan. You can take nearly every train to get there.....

If you are traveling on the line, take the subway to Canal Street. Walk west to Wooster Street and turn right. Walk one and a half blocks to The Drawing Center. If you are traveling on the line, take the subway to Canal Street. Walk east to Wooster Street and turn left. Walk one and a half blocks to The Drawing Center.

Plan ahead, and be on time.
Do some research about the show on the The Drawing Center website.
And don't forget your little notebook + pen.

See you tomorrow!