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Parijat Desai Dance Company at Harlem Stage

I went to Harlem Stage last night to see Parijat Desai’s performance of her piece JustLikeThat. It was intelligent, fantastic, and the dancers are amazing. Thank you, Parijat! 

The choreography presented a riff on the news – the who, what, when, where, why and how – journalism with Indian and American influences, ultimately about the collusion of mass media and corrupt politicians to more or less not inform the public of what’s really going on with the people who pull the strings.

Well, I’m not describing it very well! Go see it for yourself!

Here’s a clip from a previous iteration – this piece keeps evolving:

and here’s an interview with Parijat Desai

Get tickets for tonight’s show at 7:30 here  >> http://harlemstage.org/331-48-730pme-moves-18/

Other choreographers presenting works include Leyland Simmons (Dance Theater of Harlem), Francesca Harper, and Kyle Marshall. 

 

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Cecilia Dougherty at the Wexner Center for the Arts

This Woman’s Work: Ericka Beckman, Cecilia Dougherty, and Jennifer Reeder

In celebration of the Film/Video Studio Program

Sat, Apr 8, 2017 12:30 PM
 
video still from Gone, 2-channel installation by Cecilia Dougherty
Video still from my 2-channel installation GONE (2001, 37 mins), starring the inimitable Laurie Weeks.

Join the Wexner to celebrate the accomplished work of female filmmakers supported by the studio throughout its 27-year history. Exploring both traditional and experimental approaches to narrative, this program includes Hiatus, Ericka Beckman’s phantasmagoric, analogue exploration of virtual reality (1999, 30 mins., 16mm transferred to video); Gone, Cecilia Dougherty’s split-screen recreation of the PBS docudrama An American Family, here starring artists Laurie Weeks and Amy Sillman and featuring music by Le Tigre and Mike Iveson (2001, 36 mins., video); and the Ohio premiere of Artist Residency Award recipient Jennifer Reeder’s 2016 film Crystal Lake (19 mins., HD video). (program approx. 85 mins.)

Curated by the excellent Jennifer Lange

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Screening & Panel Discussion at MIX29 Queer Experimental Film Fest

Mix Queer Experimental Film Festival screening and panel discussion
Mix Queer Experimental Film Festival screening and panel discussion Feb 5, 2017

Artist and co-curator extraordinaire David Kalal and I have been working on a screening program and panel, called In-Between Theories, for the 29th MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival based on ideas we’ve been tossing around for at least a year. Or possibly longer!

The program is an exploration of queer ideas and expressions that are not quite the media for academic or even queer-political categorization, and which fall into – or more precisely, create – their own time/spaces.

When: Sunday, Feb 5, 6PM

Where: MIX29, The Dreamhouse, 1022 Wyckoff Ave., Bklyn/Flushing
(L train to Halsey)

What: Film, video and interactive work with a discussion with the artists to follow — things are going to get real — or maybe unreal — promises to be a great evening either way.

Click on the invite picture to go to our website http://www.inbetweentheories.com
with more information about the work and artists

… or go straight to the Festival website: https://mixnyc29.org/

Hope you can come out for In-Between Theories at MIX 29 on Sunday February 5th!