PLAYING WITH CINEMA — AMERICAN PERFORMERS EXPERIMENT WITH FRENCH FILMS

Saturday, October 22nd
6:30pm
120 min
The Invisible Dog Art Center
With: Miguel Gutierrez , The National Theater of the United States of America, Annie-B Parson, Dan Safer

Hosted by: Melissa Anderson

Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center and Les Subsistances

American artists will use a few minutes of a French movie (Godard, Tati, Demy, Melville) as the basis of their performances, experiencing the tension between images and bodies on stage and questioning the affinities between the imaginative world of movies, and the imagination of a performer.

What kind of relationship can a performer have with an image on stage? Moving pictures can have an intense presence and catch the eye, and even compete with the physical presence of the performers. The performers then have to deal with it, either through appropriation or rejection: pictures on stage impose some form of negotiation.

Tickets: Free
The Invisible Dog is located at 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn 11201 New York

Popularity: 5% [?]

Some of you may have seen the extraordinary work-in-progress extrav-o-rama preview of this at PRELUDE. If not, now’s your chance to be amazed and delighted by…..

CHAUTAUQUA! 

a theatrical-educational shmorgasbord of delectable performance tastiness and nutritional nuggets of fact and insight brought to you by the inimitable and frequently well-groomed National Theater of the United States of America…

NOW through Mar 15

Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm

Sunday 5:30pm

JUST ADDED: EXTRA SHOW: Saturday March 15^th at 10.30PM!  Why? Because this show is selling out!

Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray award honoring innovative theatrical vision, the National Theater of the United States of America explore the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Entertainment. Channeling the form and style of the original Chautauqua Lectures through their own inimitable aesthetic, theatrical rhythms, and a fair amount of skin, NTUSA combines lecture, debate, scientific demonstration, and duels with jazzier entertainments such as song and dance, dramatic recitals, feats of strength, and joke telling. The company examines their own role as “entertainers” as well as “artists” and question whether or not the convergence of art and commerce is possible, sustainable, and/or beneficial.  And there’s beer!

Special Nightly Guests:

Fri 2/27: Robert Zukerman, Sat 2/28 Rollo Romig, Sun 3/1: Samantha Hunt

Wed, 3/4 The Spalding Gray Award with Vallejo Gantner and Kathleen Russo – this evening’s ticket includes post-performance celebrations and libations

Thu, 3/5 Robert Zukerman, Fri 3/6 Rollo Romig (+ Claudia La Rocco’s performance club will be in the house); Sat 3/7: Greta Byrum

Sun 3/8 NTUSA benefit; Wed, 3/11: Zoe Rosenfeld; Thurs 3/12 Greta Byrum; Fri, 3/13: Samantha Hunt; Sat 3/14: Juliana Francis Kelly

Sun 3/15: THE SECRET GUEST

Tickets: http://www.ps122.org/

Use code FF15 for $15 single tix and FF241 for two-for-one tickets – code based on limited supplies; blackout dates may apply. Cannot be applied toward past sales.

Popularity: 1% [?]

THIS LOOKS FUN!

Produced and Curated for your viewing pleasure by Ms. Sue Kessler and Mr. Noel Allain, The BWS brings you:  

THE BUSHWHACK SERIES

Bushwick, Brooklyn’s premier new works performance festival!

THURSDAY, MAY 15

FRIDAY, MAY 16

SATURDAY, MAY 17

8 PM

Featuring new and developing pieces by:

THE NTUSA

ANN AND ALEXX MAKE DANCES

CHRIS AJEMIAN

AMANDA MADDOCK

and Bushwick’s own CONLAB

$10

Tickets available at the door or by reservation at: 

www.brownpapertickets.com

Popularity: 1% [?]