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
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)
There’s an inescapable aroma of horse manure at the storied corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South in New York, where the famous Plaza Hotel sits, the site of Betsey Johnson’s latest presentation for party girls on Tuesday, Sept. 15, which she cheekily titled “One Night Stand.”
With an invite that promised “an unforgettable night of booze, babes and rock n’ roll,” this season the girls Johnson seems inspired by are of the “Gossip Girl” variety, judging by the posh locale, where her punky prom fare merged high with low in the same way that the horse carriages in Central Park do: It might stink a bit, but it’s undeniably fun.
As the speakers blared eardrum-shattering New Wave standards like Blondie in the grand ballroom of the hotel, models with fiercely ratted and sprayed hair, glittery makeup and tulle headpieces danced and partied on a stage like it was 1984. Rainbow colored snakeskin prints, neon leopard print cocktail dresses, tiny white lace-up skirt an jacket combos and ruffles of all varieties were the focus of this set of frocks for Spring 2010.
The freshest thing about the ‘80s-inspired outing was probably the live performance by singer Ida Maria, who Johnson exuberantly introduced, “She has the hit song on ‘Gossip Girl’ this season.”
Johnson, buzzing through the center of her hive dressed up in a yellow jumpsuit layered with a sheer black tulle skirt, knows how to throw a good party for her adoring fans who will no doubt scoop this tried and true Betsey Johnson collection right up.
The Moment featured a post by Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear about his process for creating a soundtrack for Jeremy Laing’s show today. Here’s the playlist. I missed the show so I can’t say whether ALL these songs made it, but it’s a good list for your iTunes, anyway.
Lansing-Dreiden: “Spectrum of Vapor”
Washed Out: “Feel It All Around”
Broadcast: “Corporeal”
Here We Go Magic: “Tunnelvision”
Chromatics: “Hands in the Dark”
Drake & Lykke Li: “Little Bit”
Micachu & The Shapes: “Golden Phone”
Au Revoir Simone: “Another Likely Story (Neon Indian remix)”
KP & Envyi: “Shorty Swing My Way”
Neon Indian: “Deadbeat Summer”
The Russian Futurists: “It’s Over, It’s Nothing”
Nivea: “Don’t Mess With My Man”
The Shortwave Set: “Is It Any Wonder”
Vega: “Kyoto Gardens”
Of Montreal: “I Was a Landscape in Your Dream (Grizzly Bear remix)”
Ghost Town DJ’s: “My Boo”
Telepathe: “So Fine”
Toro Y Moi: “Blessa”
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.
Last week I rode in a cab and as we passed empty warehouses and the park, the driver fiddled with the radio and “Heart of Glass” started to play. I thought, this is why I put up with this place, for this to happen. The track turned out to be a cover, a very convincing one, and before the song ended the driver switched stations. Tonight I saw Debbie Harry sing live in an old synagogue in the Lower East Side and I had the same thoughts.
“Temporary Art Beauty Services,” a Fine Art Franchise by Cassie Thornton and Maya Erdelyi. Temps for hire: Nontrepreneurs of the finest body beautification with an art historical bent. Tattoos, manicures + nail art, insta-poems. Talk, touch and transact with tangible results. It’s beauty for all, all for beauty, beauty for beauty! See for yourself Saturday, March 14 at a Swoon fundraiser for Swimming Cities of Serenissima. @ Secret Project Robot, 210 Kent Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 7:30-9:30pm.
TABS-ettes Maya Erdelyi and Cassie Thorton canvas the coast and scavenge for beauty. Photo by Michael.
Casey Spooner looks very Ikea lamp-meets-barbershop quartet-meets-Friday Night Lights in this photo, and I like it. Must admit, I am quite excited for their upcoming Between Worlds tour. Though I renounced them in 2001, the combination of “time heals all” and their press release has me all jazzed up again: “Legend amongst outsider teenagers and sophisticated arts elite alike….” Yes! I can relate to that! Oh, and the “hairy monsters, feathered chorus girls spitting blood….and storms of glitter” once inspired me to collect detritus from their performances in ziploc baggies and pen a zine about those curios. I can’t wait to see what kind of arena rock star tricks they’ll turn this time around and what kind of nex-gen superfans they’ll spawn.
UPDATE: Here’s a review of the show on Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch blog. It pretty much sums up this strange but amazing night. I was thinking Christopher Guest; they took it one step further with an apt reference to “Summer Heights High” with regards to our dance numbers. Unfortunately, it does not mention that Anna Copa Cabanna was the “Australian MC,” so I am telling you that now.
Because the theme of my day was surrealism, Dee Snider had to be a part of it, somehow. Here we are pre-Led Zeppelin lyrical about nightmarish trees, post-Dee Snider Twisted Swister reprise at Rock-it Science. Back row, l-r: Mr. Miss America, Dee Snider, Honey Lingus. Front row, l-r: Tosha Marquee, Anna Copa Cabanna, Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne. 3 March 2009, NYC.
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