DANCE – Lucinda Childs

Lucinda Childs is today a reknown figure in postmodern and minimal dance, and also known as one of the founding members of Judson Church. You can check out her profile on wikipedia. Though she should also be remembered for the experiments she did from early on like the remarkable Street Dance Performance. The spectators …

The Offside Rules

‘The Offside Rules’ is the last production form the dancegroup around Constanza Macras, which was commissioned by the Goethe Institut for the 2010 football World Cup. In this coproduction of the Goethe-Institut South Africa, the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and Constanza Macras/Dorky Park, three performers from Macras’ company teamed up with dancers from Johannesburg, who …

Aghet – Demons of the Past

Sometimes it might seem that this blog is side-stepping, even to myself, but then I recall the ‘gap’ is also always been about the gap in general and any meaning and as well especially about media.

One could now wonder why especially Germany produced and aired an ambitious TV-documentary about the Armenian genocide. Though seeing …

Berlin – still lost planet … ?

There is obviously still a lot of interest in the weaving of the myth of Berlin inheriting all these lost, forgotten and abandoned places. And true, there are a lot of free, unused, abandoned, shut off, ... places – especially for a location, which is regarded, though kind of north-east, definitely as part of …

Alice in Wonderland

Though I really enjoyed watching the new Tim Burton version in 3D – despite some critical points one could add, but are out there anyway – it is so worth to look up and focus a bit on some older versions.
One amazing find has been made by the BFI - the British Film Institute …

kickstART.ca – crutchmaster

Accompanying the upcoming Paralympics a pretty interesting performance festival starts of in Vancouver as kickstart.ca with Crutchmaster Bill … and Bill Shannon is a lot of things: dancer, illustrator, actor, sculptor, multimedia artist, and skateboarder, to name a few. He’s perhaps best known for his unique dance style, however, which has earned him the …

upcoming Paralympics Vancouver 2010

Aware of the upcoming Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver? The Games will start exactly one month after the Winter Olympic Games 2010 and take place in the same locations.
Isn’t it another good reason to re-think our body / mind relations, our categorizations of physical fitness, the judgements of appearance and beauty …One who …