saw two nights of stunning quebecois dance from Sylvain Émard Danse
http://www.ladansesurlesroutes.com/res/photo/Wave_2436.jpg
amd Cas Public
http://www.ubishops.ca/centennial/pictures/program/cas-public-1.jpghttp://www.ubishops.ca/centennial/pictures/program/cas-public-2.jpg
both mindlblowing! i LOVE this stuff.
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
amd, and, whatever!
hey! update my dance performance thread!!
― Surmounter, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
and i can tell you there how jealous i am of you cuz that looks awesome
― Surmounter, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Dance performance C/D S/D
― Surmounter, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
such a treat. genuinely thought provoking and life affirming!
xpost was that the dildos, snow white etc thread?
sur, it was gorgeous and (the second one) sexy!!! all of the dancers either on point (the women) or in high hells (the men).and the men were like o_O look at that body.
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
agree on awesome...
meanwhile Madame de Sade is getting bad reviews, however some of the reasons (that it isn't dramatic and the like) still make me want to see it. xp
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
julio, sorry about not responding to your email of a month+ ago. i couldn't afford the trip in the end.
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
That's ok jed, not to worry - do let me know if you come round again.
And if I go to Glasgow/Edinburgh to see a dance company/or a play that you've designed I will let you know :-)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
:D
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
julio, ann liv young at the batterea arts centre from the 15th to the 19th of may.
http://www.annlivyoung.com/performancepage.html
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
its on
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"More recently Young has loosened the reins. "Snow White," in particular, has become indelibly deconstructed. "It got to the point where we didn't even do the show," she recalled. "I would say: 'You know, I really don't feel like doing this. How about let's do a question-and-answer session?' And people would get really angry. They felt cheated.""
this is exactly what happened when i saw it. 2/3rds of the way through she goes "ok, this is shit, this isn't working and i can tell you [the audience] are bored. let's do the radio show" cut to all the perfomers clearing the stage to mount the sub-show followed by getting the audience up on stage and trying to get them to strip off. j, i recommend you sink as far down in your seat as you can so she can't pick you out!
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i rly don't know what i would do
― Surmounter, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
one guy i see out at these events has become, in my head, 'that guy "peter" that stripped off and danced with ann liv young while she told the sudience to leave the auditorium'.
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
audience! i'm slightly tipsy.
― jed_, Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
orgy of tolerance
― lo (cozwn), Sunday, 12 April 2009 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
― jed_, Sunday, 12 April 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
orgy of lolerance?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 12 April 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i like it!
― jed_, Sunday, 12 April 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
saw godot with lane/goodman/irwin. irwin was awesome. i hate lane. if i closed my eyes it could have been pumba saying the lines. i hated how they sentimentalized the end. ugh.
another thing: extra general admission ticket available for the philanthropist on saturday (new christopher hampton play starring matthew broderick). anyone want it? the only weird part is i'll be there w/ mom/dadrza lol.
― tehresa, Friday, 17 April 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw Orgy of Tolerance on Wednesday night. I saw it as a bunch of 'tableaux': really well put together, the final dance off was brilliant -- and one of two LOL moments for me; the other was the 'Come Together' bit.
Wasn't so hot on any underlying ideas, and maybe that's why I wasn't laughing as much and finding it as funny as I thought I could. This constant evasion and pre-emption; the need to not be pegged down...ultimately this got pretty tiresome. I liked the title of this A LOT but the promise, ultimately, was not to be fulfilled.
Glad I went.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 April 2009 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm glad you went and your thoughts echo mine to some extent but, even though some of the ideas are pretty adolescent and some of the scenes didn't work (specifically the stylist making over J C which was a major misfire) i was carried away by the enthusuasm of the whole thing and it is extremely well crafted in spite of seeming random.
i mean, the shopping trolley waltz and the rifle-up-the-arse were worth the price of admission alone and there were many many more great scenes than that.
having said that it was probably only the 3rd or 4th best thing i have seen this year so far.
― jed_, Saturday, 18 April 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
on monday i saw one of my (two) favourites things of this year, Ontroerend Goed's "Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen". The show is preformed by teenagers and intended for teenagers and adults. i thought it was completely thrilling. a example of just how great devised theatre can be. if you get a chance to see this run, don't walk. i took my 14 year olf neice to see it and she left like this *_*
― jed_, Saturday, 18 April 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"i mean, the shopping trolley waltz and the rifle-up-the-arse were worth the price of admission alone and there were many many more great scenes than that."
I can definitely agree that you can't fault it if you go on a pure scene by scene basis, the hit rate is high, and the very first 10 mins did the whole take no prisoners thing well.
I didn't find it all that random because I could see the underlying idea that connected the scenes.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 April 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to see the newish Enda Walsh play The New Electric Ballroom (guy who wrote dialogue for Hunger, Disco Pigs) incredibly ornate Midlands-Gothic-High-Camp melodrama. It drew on equal parts Pinter, Waters and McCabe, which was a pretty awesome combo imo. Mikel Murfi pretty much redeemed himself for a decades worth of trading in on Galway Arts Festival goodwill. Great playful subversion of William Trevor Ballroom of romance RTE orthodoxy, genuinely unsettling revision of 1960's Ireland, even now more than fifteen years after the Butcher Boy. Obscenely brilliant stage design, A+ would be freaked out again.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 19 April 2009 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ann liv young's "The Bagwell In Me" is truly incredible. i'm kind of speechless. it's hard to describe or explain just why it is so good. it's a huge leap forward from Snow white. quite possibly a work of genius.
― jed_, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
going to see 'angela's mixtape' tonight. friend has offered me 'pay what you can' tix - anyone interested in joining?
― tehresa, Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Cherry Orchard pretty good, Mary Stuart great
― loaded forbear (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
philanthropist was mildly entertaining but overall something not worth seeing - there's no substance to it. i was more offended by godot, maybe because they did such a horrible job with a great play. this just wasn't a great play.
― tehresa, Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm not going to get to see the London Godot as I had thought :( i saw an Intiman production as a teenager.
― loaded forbear (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
If that was '91 or so, I saw that Intiman production as a 20-year-old.
― Eazy, Thursday, 23 April 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
that was it
― loaded forbear (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 April 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
angela's mixtape was pretty good! super funny at times, totally touching at others. eisa davis is some kind of superhuman and it's worth going just to watch her.also, fun mixes on the blog: http://is.gd/r3m5
― tehresa, Friday, 24 April 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
my mother is making me see a broadway play with the family, but i get to choose what to see. i've really got no interest or knowledge in this (though i used to love going when i was in HS), so what would yall recommend?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://disney.go.com/theatre/redirect/littlemermaid/images/03-broadwaylogo.jpg
― Here Comes the Hardzinger (gabbneb), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://parenting.leehansen.com/downloads/webgraphics/Animations/hearts-afire.gif
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.salsacyprus.com/congress2009/img/correct.gif
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
did anyone see west side story?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
^this is what my mom wanted to see. i'd be down with it i guess...i did like the movie.
dunno if yall are trolling me w/ little mermaid, but it is pretty appealing. saw beauty and the beast a few years ago and liked
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 6 May 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
mary poppins is not bad - darker and more fun than the movie, but still geared towards kids.
the little mermaid is supposed to be totally horrible. i will still rep for the lion king.
tony noms here: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.htmlbut are not necessarily a good indicator of what is actually worth seeing.
i've heard great things about mary stuart. billy elliot is supposedly just like the movie but enjoyable, fwiw. i'm interested in west side story, esp the bit about incorporating more spanish. i wonder what the effect is.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://famespy.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/rock-of-ages1.jpg
Tony-nominated!
― Here Comes the Hardzinger (gabbneb), Thursday, 7 May 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
the best show on broadway right now is probably the britishes sex farce about unhappy families/marriages The Norman Conquests, which when seen in full is an all-day affair. this is obv what you should see w/ your mom.
― Here Comes the Hardzinger (gabbneb), Thursday, 7 May 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
tbh it was pretty fun when i saw it off-broadway! probably better suited to broadway, actually, because it appeals more to tourists/non-trad theater-goers than something with the 'off-broadway' connotation of 'more artsy'. also: scantily clad women and a former american idol contestant. and they let you drink while you watch.
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait it's not 'on broadway'. nm.
i still want to see it, but i've already spent money this season on a Steel Panther show (of shame)
― Here Comes the Hardzinger (gabbneb), Thursday, 7 May 2009 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
"ann liv young's "The Bagwell In Me" is truly incredible. i'm kind of speechless. it's hard to describe or explain just why it is so good. it's a huge leap forward from Snow white. quite possibly a work of genius."
So I went to this last night - just checking, comparing notes before I go any further (and I may need to be drunker than I currently am, even after nearly 24 hours after seeing it -- which is not AT ALL).
Did Ann Liv start her show then stop after five mins, have a RAGING argument with the sound guy (who then left), then demand to see the guy who ran the venue, asking him questions on stuff like MARKETING (getting him to answer with the microphone distorted in a 'chipmunk' sorta mode) and THEN go on to have a discussion with the audience (only 25 of us, she counted 'em) about stuff like what was going to be in the show but that she wouldn't perform, as well as talking about marketing THEN getting onto perform bits of the show (stopping every now and again for a 'soundcheck') but FINALLY getting going, performing what I imagine were scenes from a show we would only ever have in our heads if it were something approaching 'professional', amazingly screaming and hollering through a few of the hits of the pop parade that were distorted to shit on the sound system...totally guerilla-not-giving-a-flying-fuck style before er actually fucking the girl who played George Washington's slave on the show with a strap on (there was a camera guy and a small screen so we all got the angle, I guess we can buy the DVD now).
Did the above (only some of the highlights, but I think I've said enough) also happen in Glasgow?
Anyway: I do care about theatre now :-)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
yes!!! i'm so thrilled with this response.
no, none of the argument stuff happened in glasgow just some very minor to and fro with the sound guy about using the wrong effects and it NOT BEING FUCKING LOUD ENOUGH.
re the fucking: the penetration didn't actually happen in glasgow because the venue wouldn't allow it (backstory: the venue is currently under investigation by glasgow city council for having real sex taken place at a gay club night and the council may prosecute) so that set her off on a rant about how she wasn't allowed to do it. so she did it without the penetration describing to us what should actually be happening.
julio the show is genuinely hysterical too, no? i haven't laughed so much in years.
p.s. was there a projection of the ex culture minister chris smith on a screen throughout the show?
― jed_, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
but but but, for all that is seems anarchic and out of control she floors you with an image or an idea that is shocking in its directness and beauty. it's breathtakiing at times.
― jed_, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
The whole argument was over the not loud enough/wrong effect, as far as I could tell. At first I thought it was acted but no, it was true - I hung around with some people and had a beer as we had to digest what just happened (one of the most likeable aspect of the whole thing) and the girl I chatted to found out about it. This is the aspect of the show that I would have a v hard time in trying to defend, and I wanted to defend ALL OF IT -- be it the accusations of 'no plot'/'indulgence' etc -- there was an abuse of trust here (the sound man apparently worked w/her trying to get it right over the weekend), as I was thinking last night. Nobody is going to die, sure, but still...
It was hilarious -- I think I was laughing way too much right from the word go. Couldn't quite believe what I was seeing. She gave me a hard look to get me to stop at one point but it was a 'controlled' anger, she knows her craft and what she wants out of an audience.
No there was no Chris Smith! Only her on stage live porno made it onto the screen.
I also laughed on the train home because someone was listening to Michael Jackson (two Jackson songs performed in the show). You cannot make this up I tells ya!! xxp = yes, defintely, I should the songs and some of the performance was brilliant, but also much of that got lost, somehow? I wanted to go again tonight, but was too tired... (did it even go ahead?)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link