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David Gordon NY Times listing

David Gordon

CRITIC’S PICK

A monthlong run at Joyce SoHo — or anywhere, really — is practically unheard of for dance-theater artists in New York. But this is a special occasion: David Gordon’s 50th year as an influential maker of category-defying performance. Known for his mischievous, perceptive wit, Mr. Gordon continues conversing with deceased writers (Ionesco, Brecht and Shakespeare have been recent inspirations) in “Beginning of the End of the…,” generated from three works by the Italian author Luigi Pirandello. The stellar cast — with the veteran performers Gus Solomons Jr., Valda Setterfield and Mr. Gordon himself — is reason enough to go.  — Siobhan Burke

May 16-19: Big Dance Theater @ NYLA

★ Big Dance Theater (Wednesday, May 16 through Saturday, May 19) This deftly genre-defying company, directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, brings back “Comme Toujours Here I Stand,” its Bessie Award-winning take on Agnès Varda’s French New Wave film “Cleo From 5 to 7.” Cleo (Molly Hickok) is a pop star of lukewarm success waiting to find out if she has a terminal illness. Heavy with uncertainty but adrift in familiar routines, she comes into focus amid the cinematic swirl of ever-shifting surroundings and lushly layered video, dance and song. At 7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077, newyorklivearts.org; $24 in advance or $30 on performance day; $15 on Thursday. (Burke)
–New York Times

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APRIL: Sarah Maxfield’s One-Shot

I had 6 hours last weekend in which to create and film a solo performance.  I could only record in one take, in a fixed frame, and could not edit in any way.  I never got to see the footage.  Now it lives forever.  This is Sarah Maxfield’s One-Shot:  “exploring our cultural relationship to the Internet, the irony of technology that it is both a conduit and a barrier to communication, and what it means to be ‘alone’ in a media culture.  One artist. One day. One take. Infinite possibilities.”

She also wrote a terrific essay in The Brooklyn Rail, that I drew on quite heavily for ideas and inspiration.  (permanent document of video vs. live performance created in real time, performing our identities online, etc.)

The result: