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Reggie Wilson and Andreya Ouamba’s The Good Dance: Dakar/Brooklyn
The Green Room
Nov 2009
If anyone wants to discuss Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba’s The Good Dance: Dakar/Brooklyn, I think I’ll start things off with a question:
What do you go to dance for—and to what extent did this dance give you that?
And I’ll give a partial answer. One of the things I go to dance for is kinesthetic pleasure—the feeling of the imagined body, the mental map of the body, moving along with the…
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Take a kid to Graham!
Field Guide
Nov 2009
7-yr-old O. and I had an unexpected day off on Wednesday, and we checked out the Dan Graham show. It was SO MUCH FUN. He loved the models (especially the high-rise building with the tiny movie theather) and exploring the mirrored stuff together was the most fun I’ve had in a museum in a long time. (The guards were even a blast — showing us how to play with the time-delated cameras in one room). O. summed…
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Building the Walker’s mobile site, part 2 — google analytics without javascript
Media Lab
Nov 2009
As I mentioned in my last post on our mobile site, one of the key features for our site was making sure that we don’t use any javascript unless absolutely necessary. If you use Google Analytics (GA) as your stats package, this poses a problem, since the supported way to run GA is via a chunk of javascript at the bottom of every page. And to make matters worse, the ga.js file is not gzipped, so you’re…
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“The Good Dance” lives up to its name
The Green Room
Nov 2009
Before the performance began, I was comparing the stage to that of another Walker dance performance this season, Bolero Variations. Whereas the stage for Raimund Hoghe was more mysterious, undefined, and open, the stage for The Good Dance is something circumscribed, bare, and exposed. There are no curtains to hide behind like there were in Bolero. But The Good Danceis free from the heavy movements of…
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New Media kills in the Walker’s pumpkin carving contest
Media Lab
Nov 2009
Every year, the Walker has a staff halloween party, which includes a departmental pumpkin carving contest. And this isn’t just a carve a grocery store pumpkin contest, it’s a creative, conceptual, re-imagine an artist or artwork pumpkin contest. Invariably, our carpentry shop and registration departments usually blow everyone else out of the water. Those of us that are a little less hands-on with the…
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Art! Now with Ponies!!
Field Guide
Nov 2009
Recently, I’ve run into several parents of young kids who haven’t taken their kids to museums or galleries — or if they do, take them only to the kids’ play rooms at the institutions. My kids have been hauled out to museums since day one (almost – - Baby J. was 7 days old for her first museum visit), mostly because, selfishly, I wanted to go. Taking kids to a gallery can produce anxiety — they’re not quiet, they…
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Walker by the Numbers: A blog readers’ contest
Field Guide
Nov 2009
Got a head for figures? Or a thing for facts about the Walker? Test yourself with this contest:
Match up items 1-13 below with the appropriate numbers that follow. The first three readers to post the correct matches in the comments section will win two gallery passes — plus a bag of highly coveted Walker-branded swag.
1. Artist presentations and engagements at the Walker (visual and performing artists…