… Some holiday cheer from Joseph Keckler; his new Talking Beast video is so much fun. Joseph asked me to be in his video and what fun it was! I’d run around town anytime with this beast posse. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqlo2YBA6Gg&fs=1&hl=en_US] … Talking Beast -from Joseph Keckler’s EP, Featured Creatures. Based on the pre-Christian legend that at […]
October was a busy month. Lots of costumes flying around. But that’s kind of my thing…
Photo: Leah Gordon Getting ready for All Hallow’s Eve and finding inspiration in haunting theater, characters in masque, vodou history and performative revolution… I’ve been looking at book of photographs by Leah Gordon called Kanaval. For years Gordon has documented the pre-Lent Mardi Gras festivities in Jacmel, a costal tone in southern Haiti. (All the […]
Good art day in New York. Today I caught the opening of Off The Wall -part 2 – Seven Works by Trisha Brown at the Whitney Museum. I was excited to see a staging of Brown‘s famous Walking on the Wall piece. The dancers, in harnesses tethered to a track along the ceiling, performed on […]
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Working away on a set of paper bear heads for choreographer Cori Olinghouse. They will debut in a new dance piece this coming spring. I’m having fun working with Cori, collaborating with her on her experiments in vaudeville and shapeshifting. I’ve always had a thing for human animal transformations. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I love this still […]
The Voyage of Garbhglas Images on my flickr from my friend Christopher’s piece at the Irish Hunger Memorial earlier this month. Carol Binion did the fantastic costumes and I coordinated them for this show. It was a wonder to see winged faeries and “protuberance” demons dancing in Lower Manhattan. Most of these photos I took […]
Outside the gate in the morning sun A sign of change Summer wanes Cicadas expire