My first post for Claudia La Rocco’s Performance Club, on the John Cage/Merce Cunningham program at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Read the article here.

When the list of the 2012 Whitney Biennial artists was made public, it included a very interesting trio of names, probably not immediately recognizable to most of the visual arts world: choreographers Sarah Michelson and Michael Clark, and theater director/playwright Richard Maxwell. All three are extremely well known in their respective fields, but how and why are they relevant to the Biennial audience? Hyperallergic asked me to write a series of articles looking at performing arts, not performance art, in the museum context, and whether it’s an important, or completely arbitrary, shift in visual arts programming.

Here’s the first: Sarah Michelson’s Devotion Study #1 – The American Dancer

New performance project with Dean Moss at Danspace Project

March 8-10, 2012
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00PM

some elements new, re-purposed, in-process
Multi-disciplinary artist Dean Moss was nominated for two Bessie awards for Nameless Forest (2011), and has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies worldwide. Here he presents elements of a new work with distinguished visual artist Laylah Ali, with whom he collaborated on figures on a field (2005), reflecting on the life and consequences of the radical abolitionist John Brown.

LANTERN TEST
curated by Catharine Dill as a part of BAX’s
PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION SERIES

featuring work by Amanda Villalobos and Radiohole

Friday & Saturday,  March 2-3, 2012 at 8pm  

For directions: http://bax.org/about/contact-directions/

Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income [Buy Tickets]

AMANDA VILLALOBOS, Sister Adorers in the Cardboard Convent

featuring Linsday Hockaday, Laura von Holt, Sibyl Kempson, Matt Leabo,                Aaron Mattocks, Kate Scelsa and Amanda Villalobos

– It’s a night for entertainments here at the Cardboard Convent, and
Sister Redempta will happily lead you to your seat.  The puppets will be
starting soon.  You’ve done well this week, observing your vows of
obedience, self-denial, and praying for the grace not to feel what you
are feeling.  But just in case (you have perhaps lingered too long in a
hallway with a fellow sister, begun to form a “particular friendship”),
Sister Redempta will ask you to perform an examen of consciousness
before entering the theater for tonight’s show.  It’ll only take a
minute.   Step inside the confessional here, tell of your sinful and
selfish heart, and find yourself blessed with the ultimate freedom of
the choiceless.

RADIOHOLE, INFLATABLE FRANKENSTEIN

– “Your father was Frankenstein but your mother was Radiohole!”
It’s coming! From the deep dark recesses of the mind of Radiohole, creator
of blasphemy! The monster created by a group they called mad is turned
loose to strike terror in the hearts of the public! To shock women into
uncontrollable hysterics! To prey upon the innocence of children! This
is the story you’ve heard about, talked about – completely strange, full
of whims and bodily fluids – the spine tingling, blood chilling show
that stuns your emotions! FRANKENSTEIN! Brought to you in full
inflatable hydrocarbon splendor, this production will horrify
presenters, send funders screaming and raise Uncle Art Crust from the
grave! See their most terrifying performance and you’ll know why there
can never be another Radiohole!