Last night I had the pleasure of seeing
Inside Out by Cirkus Cirkor at BAM.
Wow. Incredible.
Trailer here:
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1269
For me, easily tied with Big Dance Theater's
Comme Toujours (Here I Stand) for best dance-theater of Fall 09.
And yes, even though it was indeed a circus piece, complete with clowning, juggling, and death-defying and breathtaking stunts, I believe it was ultimately a piece of dance-th…
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Added by Jill Hockett on November 13, 2009 at 9:59am —
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Like everyone else (at least it seems), I am completely obsessed with AMC's Mad Men. It has style, compelling characters, and an interesting take on a bygone era that goes far beyond easy nostalgia.
This week's episode, Season 3 Ep 3, My Old Kentucky Home, had an incredible scene that transcended the era: when Trudy and Pete got up to dance.
Of course, they were wearing early 60's outfits, dancing to older music, and danced in a way that was so out of style, they were unironically doing the ch…
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Added by Jill Hockett on September 1, 2009 at 5:42pm —
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One thing that I've always disagreed with all my life is the statement relating to performing arts, "if you can picture yourself doing anything else, you shouldn't be an artist." I've heard this from Broadway style tap classes to my avant-garde college workshops. It seems like such a prevalent idea, I wonder who DOESN'T believe it.
Am I the only person who thinks that's absolute bullshit?
First of all, it's completely impractical. Unless you're a full-time company member of the New York City B…
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Added by Jill Hockett on August 30, 2009 at 1:06pm —
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How do you choose one?
I've directed a play that recently ran at the Tank in May. I'd like to give it a second run in a different theater in a different neighborhood.
I've started to do some basic research and already my eyes are beginning to cross with options, and yet I feel like I'm hitting a lot of walls. The Tank was a great space because everything there is curated, and so there's no rental fees to use the space. Lots of spaces require something in the range of 1,000 to rent the space to…
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Added by Jill Hockett on July 28, 2009 at 1:36pm —
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This morning, Pina Bausch died.
Losing an artistic idol is such a strange feeling. While of course I'd never met her, her work affected me deeply and profoundly, inspired me to create work of my own. I can't help but feel like there's a big gaping hole in the dance universe in her absence.
I saw
For the Children of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow at BAM in 2004 blindly on a class field trip. Her use of humor, dance and non-dance that still ultimately felt like dance, nostalgia, music, an…
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Added by Jill Hockett on June 30, 2009 at 4:06pm —
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Haven't posted in far too long. Oops.
A recap of dance in my life from the past few months:
- The rest of the Performance Mix went really well with a great, well, mix of performers. My other favorites from the festival were a duet for violin and viola, composed and choreographed by
Sigrid Keunen of Brussels, Belgium and JumpCut, a group piece by danceTactics of New York, choreographed by Keith Thompson. The piece by Keunen was a beautiful and even sometimes funny physicalization of the…
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Added by Jill Hockett on June 12, 2009 at 4:49pm —
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(at Joyce SoHo from Feb 24th-March 7th)
www.newdancealliance.org
In: Video Art
The Economic Collapse/Politics
Suits
Soundscapes
Out: Primal Myths
Flow-y costumes
Dancing to songs
Best piece of the night: "Elegant Heathens," by Deborah Dunn's Company
Trial & Eros from Montreal. Which, by the way, did not conform at all to my In and Out list...that was just a general impression of the night.
Elegant Heathens was fascin…
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Added by Jill Hockett on February 25, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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You know what I'm so bored by?
Dances that are supposed to express corporeality of words, as the words are being spoken or sung in a song simultaneously.
It makes the whole process so....unimaginative.
Feeling sad makes you want to contract and feeling happy makes you want to do a pirouette? Really? Thanks for telling me! I had no idea!
Not that this can't be used ever....but seeing it in an ENTIRE dance makes me feel like I'm back at a Starpower dance competition. Do not want!
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Added by Jill Hockett on February 20, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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So, I recently lost one of my part-time jobs, one out of thousands of casualties in the layoff epidemic.
To be perfectly honest, I didn't care about this job at all, and it's kind of a relief that it's over.
One of my first thoughts was, "Oh great! Now I'll have a ton of free time to take dance classes!"
Until I remembered that dance classes cost money. shit.
I feel like I'll only get a job that I like by meeting people in the new york city dance scene by taking classes and seeing performanc…
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Added by Jill Hockett on February 9, 2009 at 2:12pm —
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So, I really hate gift certificates. I am terrible at redeeming them. I guess I feel like if I have one, I need to redeem it for something really good, some kind of special occasion or reason. And then if a special occasion or reason comes up, I forget that I have a gift certificate in the first place.
No joke, I have a $5 gift certificate to Starbucks that is completely unused and I've had it for almost a whole year. Seriously, I'm terrible.
So naturally, I realized I would really have to mak…
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Added by Jill Hockett on January 29, 2009 at 7:32pm —
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I am recently discovering OvationTV.
OvationTV is probably best described as what Bravo was 15 years ago, well before it became the channel that hosts Project Runway.
It shows all the bourgie goodness that you can't find on other channels, including a lot of dance! (It's channel 83 on Time Warner).
Right now I'm watching a taped performance by the Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo. Before this they showed a documentary on Martha Graham.
I must say, Grupo Corpo has a unique brand of stunnin…
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Added by Jill Hockett on January 13, 2009 at 7:42pm —
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Since DNA World has a blog function, I think I no longer have an excuse to
not have a dance-specific blog. I have a feeling my LiveJournal friends will be relieved I have a new internet dance outlet.
Last night I went to
Stage II , an art exhibit at The Project Gallery. I was interested to see
Billy, Billy a video installation by the French-Austrian Arts Collective…
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Added by Jill Hockett on January 10, 2009 at 1:31am —
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