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Drawing Dance: The Cunningham Company at the Walker
The Green Room
Nov 2011
For his latest installment of the New York Times‘ “Drawing Dance” series, Brooklyn artist Kenneth Parris sketched members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company when their farewell Legacy Tour came to Minneapolis. Parris –interviewed for the Performing Arts blog two weeks ago — drew company members Marcie Munnerlyn, Silas Riener, Melissa Toogood, Daniel Madoff, and John Hinrichs outside the Walker’s…
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Parsing Parson and Lazar
The Green Room
Nov 2011
Big Dance Theater co-founder Annie-B Parson has said their work“steeps together like a big soup, a magical indescribable morphing.”
An impressive number of ingredients have gone into their latest production, Supernatural Wife, and we’ll see if we can pick out some of them during their performances here this Thursday through Saturday. Working from the translation of Euripedes’ Alkestisdone by Anne…
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Corey Dargel in St. Paul: “Chronic Cirrhosis” Never Sounded So Pretty
The Green Room
Nov 2011
When the Walker’s Philip Blither characterized Corey Dargel as “living between worlds,” my ears perked up. If anyone reading this knows anything about me, a lot of what I do focuses on those who live their lives as part of a diaspora, those who can call someplace home just as much, or more, as they might call Minnesota home.
As I listened to the two song cycles that Dargel, Todd Reynolds, and Ensemble 61…
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Cataloguing performance: Opening the kimono – how much to reveal and to whom?
The Green Room
Nov 2011
As we move from topics of content to access, Trevor Carlson of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company introduces the question of restricting the flow of some information about a work, privileging the use of the archive of a performance work in its entirety for only a circumscribed field of researchers and objectives. He also suggests that as a group, museums clarify the important distinction between…