. . . with the BEAT Festival, recipient of some very nice coverage in the Wall Street Journal last week. I forgive them though, because Elevator Repair Service’s show sounds pretty great: “Elevator Repair Service—which won acclaim for its production ‘Gatz,’ an eight-hour-long, unabridged version of ‘The Great Gatsby’—will perform an installation piece commissioned by… Read more »
Posts Tagged: 2012 Live Arts Festival
Ooh La La: “Sequence 8″ Premieres in Lyon, France
Sequence 8 from 7 Fingers, with six geese-a-laying, had its world premiere in Lyon recently. But if you missed it, buy some of Lyon’s especially delicious sausage and sit tight; it’ll be at the 2012 Live Arts Festival soon. Here’s a peek: Sequence 8 runs September 18 and 20 through 23 at the Merriam Theater,… Read more »
I Literally Cannot Stop Watching Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Videos
Here’s another one, because my eyes are on FIRE. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s installation Open Air runs September 20 through October 14 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Every night, 8:00-11:00 pm. Free! –Nicholas Gilewicz
Lou Reed on Young Jean Lee: “I Love Everything She Does”
How’s that for an endorsement? Of course, everything includes Untitled Feminist Show, which Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company will present at the 2012 Live Arts Festival. September 19 through 21 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad Street, Avenue of the Arts. All shows 9:00 pm, $28-$35. –Nicholas Gilewicz
Le Grand Continental about to Get Grand
You sign up yet to dance in Le Grand Continental? If not, get on it. If you did, don’t forget: tonight is the must-do recruitment session, 7:00 pm, 5th and Fairmount, please RSVP. Rehearsals start tomorrow! Here’s something like what you’ll get to do at the Art Museum: Even if you’re not going to dance… Read more »
Guides Everywhere, Tickets On Sale
Oh yeah, did I tell you? All tickets for the 2012 Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe are now on sale. I was going to insert a video of Homer Simpson singing “Big Spender” to encourage you to drop your hard earned dollars on some fabulous performances, but sadly, not a lot of old-timey Simpsons… Read more »
Besties! Charlotte Ford and Headlong
Actually, do they hang out? I don’t even know. But in the department of PHILLY IS SO REAL, the arbiters of the very best of us, Philadelphia Magazine, gives the propers where the propers are due in their Best of Philly 2012 issue. BEST DANCE COMPANY: Headlong Dance Theater, with a plug for their 2012… Read more »
Miscellaneous Debris
Live Arts and Philly Fringe artists get around: >>>James Franco talks Gatz at the Huffington Post. Elevator Repair Service returns to the 2012 Live Arts Festival with Arguendo. >>>Young Jean Lee’s Church is conquering the eastern seaboard from Maryland to Cape Cod. She also talked to Riff Raff about her first concert, and teaching actors… Read more »
Today in WTF: Pig Iron?
Is this the video equivalent of robotic blog aggregators? Weirdly, the link included on the YouTube page takes you to a Shanghai-based mining equipment manufacturer. Nonetheless, the video is strangely compelling: Pig Iron! 2012 Live Arts got Pig Iron! Zero Cost House runs September 5 through 9, September 11 through 16, and September 18 through… Read more »
Seismoscopic!
I like Rafael Lorano-Hemmer’s projects; his Open Air will be installed on the Parkway from September 20 through October 14 as part of the 2012 Live Arts Festival. While you wait, watch this video of his project Seismoscope 2: Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali, which explains itself as you go through. Open Air runs… Read more »
Preview: Back to Back Theatre’s “Food Court”
One of my favorite shows from the 2009 Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festivals was small metal objects, a quite brilliant piece about friendship on the margins of society. This fall, Back to Back Theatre returns to Philadelphia with FOOD COURT, an innovative examination of power, bullying, and questions of victimization and victimhood. The preview… Read more »
Slightly Less Mysterious: Headlong’s 2012 Live Arts Show
At the 2012 Live Arts Festival, Headlong Dance Theater is taking it way indoors with This Town is a Mystery. Motivated by the fight against urban anonymity, this performance takes place in four different Philadelphia households, performed by the families that live therein. To get us started down this path, the show’s blog introduces us… Read more »
Google Banging
One of the tricks of the lazy blogger is to set up Google news alerts for anything you’re working on. So we get flooded with news stories, videos, and such about 2012 Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. Turns out that the “Charlotte Ford” news alert brings up, shall we say, news not specific to… Read more »
My Name is Nick, and I Live in the Internet
Today, start your morning with an overview of New Paradise Laboratories‘s online performance/venue FRAME, which has taken over the NPL website: This fall, NPL returns to the Live Arts Festival with 27, an age I’ve long since lived past, and thus became a cultural nobody. That’s OK though; maybe I can move into the Internet,… Read more »
Meet the Cast of “Private Places”
Jumatatu Poe’s idiosynCrazy productions‘ One Year Vlog Project has been documenting the company’s work during 2012. Watch the two latest episodes to meet the cast of the 2012 Live Arts Festival production, Private Places: Private Places runs September 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20 at the Live Arts Studio. 919 North 5th Street, Northern Liberties…. Read more »
