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Colin Rusch

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Performing Arts
Posted: Sep 15, 2003 11:04 PM
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What have you seen or experienced recently? What did you think? What work are you looking forward to? Please include a date, location, artists, and a title for the work.


Colin Rusch

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Sep 18, 2003 11:06 PM
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Last Friday, I went to the Link/Volstok show at The Southern. It was part of a mini-festival of four Russian companies mixed with local artists.

Two pieces stuck with me. First, Iguana Dance Theater showed a piece that is difficult to describe. It struck me as surreal forest populated by mutant fairy tale characters. They created a perplexing world that pleased my imagination. I never felt like I knew what was going on, but I didn't care.

The second piece that stuck with me was an improvised duet by Oleg Soulimenko and local vocalist Peter O'Gorman. The piece never really developed, but the subtlety of Oleg's dancing was quite pleasant. Also, he used a few pieces of movement vocabulary that I have been dropping into shows over the last six months, like push-ups and measuring things between my thumb and forefinger. It cracked me up and made me uneasy. There is something disconcerting about seeing a clear, if partial, reflection of yourself in someone who you've never met.

Did anyone one else see one of these show's?

Colin

Gabriel Combs

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Sep 24, 2003 6:38 PM
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"I never felt like I knew what was going on, but I didn't care."
This is the way I have felt about the couple of dances I have been to. The fact that you, as a dancer, stated this is helpful. I have truly been moved by dance. All of my hairs will stand on end, and it is good. But, the fact that I don't feel like I know what is going on stifles my interest. I thought it was just me. Movies, art, general conversation, shit, I don't know whats going on anywhere, but I know what moves me...

Colin Rusch

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Sep 24, 2003 7:07 PM
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Right on, Gabe. You certainly are not alone feeling left out of dance concerts. It's a funny form in that compelling dance is not about a direct intellectual message. It's about movement. Another way to say this is the transformation of space, time, physicality, people, etc... Its power lives in our physicality. Yet, as a society we have poor training and concepts for understanding our physical and perceptual experiences. If you want, and this is open to everyone, keep going to dance shows and ask questions here. I will do my best to provide some insight.

Colin

Sam Spiczka

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From: Sartell, MN
Registered: Jul 20, 2001
Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Sep 24, 2003 7:41 PM
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Yeah, I've had the same experience Gabe. It's crazy when the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and while viewing something you didn't think would move you. That *you of course could just be me though.

Sam

Colin Rusch

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Oct 7, 2003 11:47 PM
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people. There was a healthy crowd at O'Shaughnessy. His work is accessible and is well augmented by extensive program notes. The company also has a regular improvisation practice. They do a great job with it. But, I continue to feel that improvisation is better served by smaller spaces. Kirstie Simpson and Christian Burns are in town performing with the company. If you have not seen Kirstie, she is out of control. In short, she is one of the best dancers in the world, no questions, no buts, full on amazing. Kirstie and Christian performed an improvised trio with James last weekend. Despite all of their experience and insightful skills, the potent images they created dissipated in the space. It was amazing to see the moments develop, see these incredible technicians working, and then as the moments hit, I was not moved. I wasn't quite sure what to think. This weekend, it sounds like the more company members will be performing the improvised piece. I think more movement in the space will help.

As for the ballet, it is good contemporary ballet. This city is blessed with quality ballets despite its small size. I would recommend the show to anyone interested in dance.

Gabriel Combs

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Oct 8, 2003 6:55 AM
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My daughter went to the James Sewell show last sat. She loved it. Her mother is the one who first got me to go to a dance, and I have been thankful for that.

Colin Rusch

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Oct 8, 2003 9:56 AM
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Wow, I deleted the first three sentences of my post and did not even notice. So, I went to see the James Sewell Ballet last weekend. It was a good reminder at how accessible James' work is and how well it reaches audiences. The rest is above.

Hey Gabe, I'm glad your daughter enjoyed the show. The company not only makes good work, they are good people. Everyone in the company is up for exploring and generating new material. It is nice to see such a smart company of dance artists.

Colin Rusch

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Oct 10, 2003 12:21 AM
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Has anyone seen the Improbable Theater show yet? I am going tomorrow night. Shockhead Peter, the show they brought a couple of years ago, was supposed to have been fabulous.

Colin Rusch

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Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Oct 22, 2003 10:41 PM
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Did anyone see the 9 x 22 tonight. It is a regular dance series at the Bryant Lake Bowl on the third Wednesday of the month. Three artists show some work and then take questions from the audience. I am curious how it went.

Colin

domenico olivero

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From: Cuneo (Italy)
Registered: Jul 5, 2003
resonance
Posted: Dec 18, 2003 3:32 PM
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i n v i t e & PRESS RELEASE

For the next year the artist Domenico Olivero is elaborating an original project that will develop through a series of sensitive instants on the cuneese territory. After the cosmopolitan experience of PassDoc, created by him in different places (Barcellona, Berlin, Canterbury, City of Mexico, Nice, San Francisco and Venice), the new artistic work looks at its adoptive earth. The artist reveals to perceive a replace of the personnel living in a place. A meditative crossing on the being in a determined space, contaminated by a particular cultural tradition, as in this case that of the subalpine province.
These works will be made by elaborating social and family elements, directly lived by the artist to the discovery of the hypotheses of origin.
The new project takes the global name "Resonance - the art of the attention."

The first project "1.9.6.4_7" will be done at "Albume's Space from 28/01/04 to 20/02/04 in 5, M. Coppino street in Cuneo. Vernissage whit performance at 09,00 p.m. - Wednesday 28/01/04.

General program:
28/01-20/02/04 "1.9.6.4_7" visual action near the Albume's space of Cuneo
12-26/02/04 "Source" urban intervention in the center of Cuneo.
06-20/03/04 "tivogliobenemakefatica" artistic action near local radio/tv.
15-30/04/04 "27Aprile" installation near Plaid'space.
May "Monjoie" sculpture near Fondazione Peano
June "Pluch" performance in Contrada Mondovì.
July "Lippa" artistic simulation.
August "Antesna " environmental intervention.
September "There was always some dessert" sculptures.
October "Dispatches" apparent advertising.
November " Aktionen" show.
December "Ordito" project web.


Domenico Olivero "1.9.6.4_7" Visual Action
Opening Wednesday January 28th 2004 at 9:00 pm
Albume 5, M. Coppino street 12100 Cuneo (Italy)
For further information contact P: +39 328 21.595.21 @: art_resonance@hotmail.com

On 12/04/2004 news will be informed about the following dates and the definitive places of the events.
This project is supported by +XARTE (Foundation for the contemporary art) Alba - Italia.

http://art.supereva.it/artresonance

Colin Rusch

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Registered: Oct 16, 2002
The Cult
Posted: Jul 15, 2004 11:50 PM
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i saw Gerry Girouard's show The Cult of Dorian Gray tonight. On the whole I was pleasantly surprised. I was skeptical of some structural choices. But for the most part the movement and its relationship to the sound and images was intuitive. Plus, the dancers went to work in this show. It is a really physical piece to perform. It was great to see that. Plus there is a guy in it who looks like Andy Warhol. That ads a layer of meaning which cracked me throughout the evening.

Colin

Sage Awards

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Registered: Jul 25, 2005
Re: Performing Arts
Posted: Jul 25, 2005 9:12 AM
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The Minnesota Sage Awards

For more information contact: Stuart Pimsler
SPDanTH@aol.com 763 521-7738
or
Linda Shapiro
Shapi018@umn.edu


What: First Annual Sage Awards for Dance
When: Wednesday, October 5, 7 PM
Where: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis
Tickets: Open to the public. $5 donation recommended. Call 612-340-1725



For Immediate Release

July 1, 2005 The Minnesota Community will publicly celebrate its accomplishments with the first annual presentation of the Sage Awards, to be announced at a gala evening at the Southern Theater on Wednesday, October 5, 2005. The awards will recognize artists involved in performances over the past season. There will be five to ten awards for Outstanding Performance (including choreography); Outstanding Performer or Performers; Outstanding Design; a Special Citation to recognize contributions over time; and a People's Choice Award picked by the dance community at large.

The Sage Awards recognize Sage Cowles, with heartfelt appreciation for all she has done for Minnesota Dance. Cowles herself, a choreographer, performer and philanthropist, recently received an Ernie Award from Dance USA at their national conference for her dance leadership in the Twin Cities and nationally.

The Sages are the brain-child of Stuart Pimsler who was inspired by a community-wide dance meeting called by the McKnight Foundation in the spring of 2004, a unique gathering of dancers, choreographers, dance teachers, dance presenters, arts administrators, arts writers and funders talking about the state of dance in Minnesota. Created in a series of open meetings with input from many dance artists, the awards will be a celebration of the Minnesota dance community, one of the most vital in the country. "The Sages will help to bring national attention to the high volume and caliber of dance activity in the Twin Cities, " says Pimsler, a nationally-known choreographer and director of Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater who moved his company to Minneapolis four years ago.

The Sage Awards will recognize all manner of dance presentations from standard theater productions to musical theater and media forms including videography, as long as the maker is a resident of MN. The ad hoc committee for the Sage Awards consulted with David White, founder of the New York awards known as The Bessies, in helping develop the MN awards. The committee considered over 60 nominees for the Sage panel before choosing the 11 dancers, choreographers, writers, presenters, administrators and devoted audience members who have viewed work over the past year. At the Sage Awards celebration, the panel's picks and their identities will be revealed.

Patrick Scully and Laurie Van Wieren will be the masters of ceremonies for the gala Sage Awards, which will feature live performances, rare video footage, the awards, and an appearance by Sage Cowles.

The Sage Awards are made possible in part by funding from the McKnight foundation.

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