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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Celebrating Balasaraswati

Balasaraswati: Her Art and Life

Asia Society welcomes Douglas Knight, author of Balasaraswati: Her Art and Life

June 24, 6:30-8:30pm

Celebrate the life and legacy of one of India's most infuential artists, Balasaraswati. Watch unseen footage of Balasaraswati's dance and hear from featured speakers, including Asia Society President Vishakha N. Desai, dance critic Anna Kisselgoff, author Douglas Knight, and Balasaraswati's grandson, Aniruddha Knight.

Books available at AsiaStore.org.

Tickets

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (between 70th and 71st Streets), Manhattan

These four women have got it goin' on!

Coming up in August at the Joyce Theater: two shared programs with lots of new choreography I'm really looking forward to checking out!

Camille A. Brown and Andrea Miller: Monday, August 9 at 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11 at 8pm; Friday, August 13 at 8pm
Information, video clips and tickets

Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes: Tuesday, August 10 at 7:30pm; Thursday, August 12 at 8pm; Saturday, August 14 at 8pm
Information, video clips and tickets

Plus a "family-friendly" show, featuring all four choreographers, on Saturday, August 14 at 2pm

Bridge of Sighs, choreography by Kate Weare (photo: Keria Heu-Jwyn Chang)

choreography by Camille A. Brown (photo: Matt Karas)

The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue (between 18th and 19th Streets), Manhattan
JoyceCharge: 212-242-0800

Investigating improv

Studies Project Inter-Generational Exchange in Improvisational Practice

Sunday June 13, 5:30 pm

at La MaMa E.T.C.
74A East 4th St.
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)

FREE

This Studies Project, in partnership with La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
(June 8-27), will uncover lineages of improvisational practices. Curators Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones will instigate a discussion amongst pioneers of improvisation in dance, as well as contemporary artists who are practicing investigations within the larger context of improvisation. The event will also include dancing to a score developed by Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones.

Panelists: Paul Langland, Daniel Lepkoff, Jennifer Monson

Moderator: Danielle Goldman

Dancers: Maggie Bennett, Daniel Clifton, Jonathan Kinzel, Daniel Lepkoff, Paul Langland, Melanie Maar, Jennifer Monson, Yina Ng, Arturo Vidich and Anthony Whitehurst

Initiated by Nicky Paraiso, Co-Curator, La MaMa E.T.C.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Somewhere out there...

Parallel Universes: The History of an Idea

Saturday, June 12 at 2:30pm

Roundtable: Eva Brann, Christa Davis Acampora, David Morgan, Paul Park (moderator), David Weinberg

The notion of the parallel universe—the idea that a replica or near replica of the worlds we know, have known, or will know—has permeated imaginative thought in both science and art throughout the ages. Vedic philosophy introduces the notion of the wheel. Nietzsche propounded the Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence around the same time that the French mathematician Poincaré introduced his Eternal Recurrence Theorem. Parallel universes appear in numerous science fiction works, such as Phillip K. Dick’s Man in a High Castle, and have appeared as motifs in numerous films, including the Clarence Oddbody sequence in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life and in Peter Howitt’s Sliding Doors. This roundtable will examine the history of the idea of the parallel universe, and the confluence of thinkers from fields as varied as non-Euclidian geometry, Hinduism, romantic comedy, science fiction, and astrophysics who have wrestled with this imaginative concept.

Let's make a deal

by Christine HaughneyThe New York Times, June 7, 2010

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