Anne Bogart: the effort of balance

In connection with attending last night's conversation among director Anne Bogart, playwright Charles L. Mee, Jr. and other members of Bogart's SITI Company at Dance Theater Workshop, I discovered Bogart's interesting blog. Here's some of wonderful ruminating...

Instinct vs. Impulse
by Anne Bogart, SEE (SITI Extended Ensemble), February 2010

Last in the SITI Company Mondays@DTW series:

March 8 (7pm) SITI's devised creations--the why, what and how. Tickets: $10. Call 212-924-0077 or click here.

And coming up at The Joyce in June: 

American Document, by visionary choreographer Martha Graham, premiered during the summer of 1938. Her most theatrical ballet at the time of its creation, Graham’s piece incorporated vaudevillian structures, folk rhythms, and spoken text to examine Americana and the continual conflict between the rights of the individual and society. Although there is no complete record of Graham’s first
popular work, the Martha Graham Dance Company has enlisted director Anne Bogart, playwright Charles L. Mee Jr. and SITI Company to reinvent American Document using filmed excerpts, written descriptions and Graham’s handwritten notes. This stirring new theatrical work will feature a groundbreaking collaboration between SITI Company actors and Martha Graham Company dancers. American Document reflects our current cultural concerns by answering the same questions Martha Graham asked over seventy years ago: What is an American? And, what is America?

American Document (World Premiere)
June 8-13
The Joyce Theater
175 8th Avenue (19th Street), Manhattan
Box office at 212-242-0800 or purchase online