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Streb Surprise
Via surprises-streb.co.uk
Jul 2012
Elizabeth Streb, whose company was commissioned by the Walker in 1997 to do aerial choreography in the Metrodome and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, has a few surprises in store for London—Olympic-sized aerial spectacles at the city’s best-known landmarks.
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Abraham’s Pillow
Via jacobspillow.org
Jun 2012
Before bringing his dance exploration of gender and hip hop to the Walker next March, Kyle Abraham will be picking up the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. Past winners of the prestigious $25,000 prize include Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham, and Alonzo King.
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Eyebrow Raisers
Via minnpost.com
May 2012
The Walker’s just-announced 2012-13 Performing Arts Season is “like the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book,” writes Pamela Espeland. “You turn the pages, you see a lot of things you want and a few eyebrow-raisers.”
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The Warhol Crater
Via nasa.gov
May 2012
Via Gallerist NY we learn that NASA has named 23 of Mercury’s “impact craters” after art figures. In addition to Nureyev, Nabakov and Alvin Ailey, visual artists like Magritte and Warhol are also honored with namesake divots on the planet closest the sun.
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Dean’s Quietude
Via thedailybeast.com
May 2012
The “quietude” in Tacita Dean’s film Five Americans—which includes meditative footage of artists including Claes Oldenburg, Merce Cunningham, and Julie Mehretu—”is hard-won, achieved with as much labor as any oil by Vermeer,” writes Blake Gopnik.
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Driving Toward Summer
Via washingtonpost.com
May 2012
Eiko and Koma’s trademark meditative pace will be part of the Caravan Project at Maryland’s Clarice Smith Center, but the work’s conclusion sets it apart: performed in a trailer, the duo will hop in a car and drive away, “looking toward summer,” as Eiko says.
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Duke Artists Named
Via ddpaa.org
Apr 2012
Among the first class of Doris Duke Artists, who’ll receive multi-year cash grants of $225,000, are Walker friends Anne Bogart, Bill Frisell, Vijay Iyer, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Young Jean Lee, Eiko Otake, Ralph Lemon, Meredith Monk, Sarah Michelson, and others.
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Full Circle
Via galleristny.com
Apr 2012
Upping the dance mojo at Westbeth Center for the Arts even more, the Martha Graham Dance Company is moving into the Greenwich Village studios Merce Cunningham’s dance company occupied since 1970. Cunningham got his start in 1939 as a soloist with Graham.
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Arts Rebound
Via artsusa.org
Apr 2012
After hitting an all-time low in 2009, the vitality of the arts industry, as measured by the newest National Arts Index, is rebounding. While funding remains a concern, “half of the 83 indicators used to tabulate the Index score increased” in the latest reporting period.