December 2011
18 posts
Bye Ruairi Donovan.
You are a fucking success.
This is not the end, this is only progression.
See you in six weeks in Amsterdam.
Love
Dramaturgs
While attending Performance Art offerings regularly in the Bay Area, our intrepid heroes adopt the standard euro trash dramaturg physicality.
Have you a photo of them about town interrogating modes of production and intention? send them to sarkissova.donovan@gmail.com
Turbulence
(a dance about the economy) —A collaborative failure (in progress) choreographed by Keith Hennessy Saturday-Sunday, December 17-18, 8pm, CounterPULSE -TICKETS- Discount $9.99 General $14.99 Share the Wealth $19.99 http://turbulencedance.eventbrite.com/ Performer/collaborators: Jassem Hindi (France/Lebanon), Julie Phelps, Emily Leap, Laura Arrington, Jesse Hewit, Jorge De Hoyos, Hana...
Kool aid
http://www.movie2k.to/Magic-Trip-watch-movie-950189.html
A contribution movie to our process sent by Joakim Heidvall the 15th of December.
Sunday
from a distance
bridging point
20 pence piece falling over the table edge
half light
mandala
pathways
city lights
spatial awareness
groundings
Young Wazičąk
return trip
Interview 2
K: In relation to your experience of social choreography what are you interested in extracting from American Dreaming?
R: Being here, now, I am interested in the reality of people, and what separates us. Can we create an illusion of togetherness, in order to provoke a response from the individual? Firstly, what we experience in the room as a container, and secondly what we experience in the world...
Interview 1
R: Remembering that this is research, what do you propose for American Dreaming?
K: A ceremony of consumption, a glorification of Capitalism to investigate the duality of spirituality and the iconography of consumption. How the culture of freedom has influenced the aesthetic in this part of the world.
R: Remembering that this is research, what would you like to learn?
K: To know what unifies...
in the soft focus
it needs to be fun, it should be simple, it should be inclusive, it needs to face an icon, it needs to be recognisable, it needs to be related to dance, it needs to be pop, it needs to be high, it should be low, it should be face on, it should create togetherness, it should be full of emotion.
It is a Ceremony of Consumption, it’s a ritual, performed for it’s symbolic meaning.
It...
Milk
VOICE
TRIBUTE
BEATIFICATION
MEMORIES
"Are they artists?" - "No they are just kids!"
If you could see us now you would not recognise us.
Im not sure if we even recognise ourselves anymore.
We are all of us doomed to spen our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening.
I guess what we are proposing is a form, or at least we should propose a form because we are all content.
We are all frills and no knickers.
We are...
Kareoke practice. First time in three weeks, entering the studio.