So of course there are a metric shit ton of things that I am missing while not living in New York and I’m pissed as hell about it. One of the things that I would definitely be seeing if I were there is “Metadance,” a new work by friends Deborah Black and Sasha Welsh. These [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Chez Jean
Posted in Je Suis Touriste, Uncategorized, tagged Boris Hennion, Saint Hippolyte du Fort, Villa Figaret on 28 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few weekends ago, my friend Boris Hennion (also an ex.e.r.ce) took me to his friend Jean’s new restaurant in Saint Hippolyte du Fort, an old silk mill town in the mountains north of Montpellier. Jean is working to establish a progressive boarding school. In addition to his tireless work to set up the school [...]
Re Re Re Re
Posted in Art in the New World, Hell of a Town, tagged Anna Whaley, CCN Montpellier, Charles Atlas, DD Dorvillier, Deborah Black, Deborah Hay, Doug Eklund, ex.e.r.ce, Foofwa d'Imobilité, Isadora Duncan, Jodi Sperling, Josef Astor, Levi Gonzalez, Lisa Fox, Lori Bellilove, Louise Lawler, Martha Graham, Mathilde Monnier, Merce Cunningham, Movement Research, Pat Catterson, PS 122, Randy Martin, Richard Move, Sherrie Levine, Stacy Spence on 20 November 2009 | 2 Comments »
For the past two weeks the ex.e.r.ce group (for so my program at CCN Montpellier is called) has been working with choreographer and CCN director Mathilde Monnier to mine the video documentation of dance legend Merce Cunningham for material that can be personally relevant to our work. We began by directly copying phrase material from [...]
