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kate bush dance troupe @ the kitchen, nov 5-7

The Kate Bush Dance Troupe (yes, I’m in it!) will be performing as the closing act of Chase Granoff’s piece in Nancy Garcia/Chase Granoff at the Kitchen, November 5, 6, and 7.

512 West 19th Street
Thursday–Saturday, November 5-7, 8pm
Tickets: $12

Curated by Matthew Lyons

To purchase tickets, go here.

About KBDT:
The Kate Bush Dance Troupe is an ongoing collaborative ensemble of non-dancers (Samara Davis, Erica Magrey, Cassie Thornton, Kate Scherer, Renata Espinosa and Jennifer Sullivan) who create dance performances inspired by the music and emotive movement stylings of Kate Bush.

You can see our videos here and here, and some pics here.

The show is also mentioned in The New York Times….but uh, please note, Kate Bush *will not* be there. Just the dance troupe tribute!

★ NANCY GARCIA/CHASE GRANOFF (Thursday) Way down in the press materials for this double bill at the Kitchen comes a brief statement: “Special guest appearance by Kate Bush.” That’s rather fascinating to those of us whose first onstage appearance was in a dance set to Ms. Bush’s “Wuthering Heights.” But Chase Granoff’s “Art of Making Dances” sounds alluring for other reasons too: the incongruous artistic trio of Doris Humphrey, Simone Forti and Jean-Luc Godard all figure into a montage of sound, text and movement. The other half of the program offers Nancy Garcia’s “I need more” (and who doesn’t?), which uses her own recent solo album in an exploration of music history as a source for movement material. Lighting for both is by Joe Levasseur; always a good sign. (Through Nov. 7.) At 8 p.m., the Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, Chelsea , (212) 255-5793, thekitchen.org; $12. (Sulcas)

matthew ames spring 2010

Minimalism meets American sportswear at Matthew Ames this morning, a Art Institute of Chicago graduate and Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award winner. Inspirations included the color blocking of abstract painter Elsworth Kelly, the geometry of modernist Agnes Martin and the movement of choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Ames intended for the various elements–color and shape–come together like interlocking puzzle pieces engaged in a choreographed dance.  A dress in fluid silk in pink stands out as an individual expression against a black and white blocked coat with sculptural folds like geometric wings, as though it were a single dancer moving with respect to another dancer across the floor.

In the clutter of commercialism and crass that is New York fashion week, Ames is a pin-drop quiet voice whose austere vision provides some solace.

add, multiply, repeat

Even when you’re observing a dancer alone onstage doing a solo, you’re frequently aware of a multiplicity that’s not simultaneous but sequential. Now she’s jumping looking up; now she’s lying flat on the floor; now she’s balancing on one foot, bending her torso one way and extending her other leg in another. Cunningham dancers constantly say, like Whitman, “Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/(I am large, I contain multitudes).”

In the Cunningham Dimension, Multiplicities in Time and Space

merce cunningham, 1919 - 2009

Roamin’ 1 (1980), a film by Charles Atlas with choreography by Merce Cunningham. Cunningham died today at the age of 90.

take me home tonight

Eddie Money’s “Take Me Home Tonight” performed at The Anna Copa Cabanna Show, January 24, 2009. Guest starring what are quite possibly the sleaziest silken pants a man could wear.

wild things

The Anna Copa Cabanna Show, backstage at Joe's Pub, May 2, 2009.

call of the wild 5.2.2009

The Anna Copa Cabanna Show at Joe's Pub, May 2, 2009.

anna copa cabanna: call of the wild

Three year anniversary, tomorrow, May 2nd at Joe’s Pub. Last chance to see the show…until…? Buy your tickets here.

everything you need to know

Today’s recommendations:

sweet thunder talent expo 1999

Creation Myth. Yep, this really did take place at the Starbucks on Astor Place in ‘99. Saskwatch was the precursor to Fischerspooner. Sweet Thunder was a concept band about Niagara Falls.

Tomorrow I’ll dance on The Ed Schrader Show in Baltimore with Ana Lola Roman. I’ll be thinking of these guys.