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Chaos and Creativity
Paul Schmelzer
Nov 2011
Jumping from the ’80s activism of ACT UP to the oil fields of Iraq, the death camps of World War II to 9/11, The Smiths to The Golden Girls, Jim Hodges’ World AIDS Day film offers striking context for both Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ art and the continuing struggles for social change today.
PA
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Moving Collaborations
Darsie Alexander
Nov 2011
What happens when two powerful artistic personalities come together to create work for the stage? Walker curator Darsie Alexander looks at the initial transformative 10-year collaborative relationship between eminent dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg.
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The Lament of Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial) 2011
Olga Viso
Oct 2011
What’s lacking in the 2011 Istanbul Biennial, writes Walker director Olga Viso is “an indefatigable spirit of generosity and faith in the potential of art to not only transcribe the exigencies of the present moment but transcend them too.”
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A Tragicomedy for All Seasons
Julie Caniglia
Oct 2011
Video projections, a beer-swigging Herakles, a sample from the movie His Girl Friday: Big Dance Theater’s Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar discuss the choices they made in adapting Euripides’ 438 BC tragicomedy Alkestis to give it resonance today.
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Feminism & Film: No Single View
Sheryl Mousley
Oct 2011
The films in the Walker’s new series on forgotten aspects of the feminist movement present many views, but underscore one point, says co-curator Paula Rabinowitz: “Feminism was much more diverse and international than people tend to think, and it was concerned with racism and class.”
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Working-Class Grace
Paul Schmelzer
Oct 2011
“I’m fascinated by what drives people to get out of bed and to push the Sisyphean boulder up the hill again and again,” says Kenneth Parris on his New York Times sketches of dancers in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. “Under the patina of grace and glamour, there lies a working-class ethic.”
