Tag Archive "headlong-dance-theater"

The search for utopian connection in New York and Philadelphia

Lenore Malen, videos of the Harmonites in action, by Lenore Malen New York’s CUE Art Foundation invites curators of substance to in turn invite artists to exhibit in its beautiful space. This month, Pepe Karmel invited my friend Lenore Malen, who installed two new video projections, new photographs and a long vitrine with historical and fictional artifacts, including precariously stacked little magnets, which with their invisible pull and their ramshackle tininess seem to push up the extremely large expanse of glass. Magnetic power pillars holding up the glass top on the vitrine. I went up to see the exhibit with ... More » »

Dance digression

I finally made it to a Dance Boom! event this year, thanks to the good graces of my neighbor Andrew Simonet of Headlong Dance Theater. Don’t miss a chance to see something good and go to tonight’s performance, the last one so far as I can tell. Headlong’s Shosha, based on an Isaac Basheves Singer story, was quirky for its structure–half performance and theater, half dance, and totally original. It was also totally moving. Choreographer Keely Garfield’s Scent of Mental Love was a series of stylish parodies of the traditional pas de deux in dance and in love songs–also quite ... More » »