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4 articles from 2009

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Scenes We Love: Poetry in Motion

17 May 2009 11:32 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

I know, I know. I've written about documentaries a lot lately. But I promise -- this is the last one, at least for a little while. There's a film I watched during Hot Docs that I never mentioned, mainly because it was part of a retrospective and is a good twenty-seven years old -- Ron Mann's Poetry in Motion.

The film follows a large collection of North American poets performing their work in the early '80s, including: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, John Cage, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Waldman, Jim Carroll, The Four Horsemen, and Tom Waits. The performances range from poetry set to music and given a rhythm, to sound poetry, to classic recitation. On their own, the pieces are an intensely interesting look at how performance can change poetry, as well as what the creative world was like almost 30 years ago. But they're also brought

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Monika Bartyzel

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Coraline Goes from Film to Stage

14 May 2009 3:51 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

One of the more successful graphic novel to film adaptations in recent memory was most definitely Coraline, and we received word that just last week it premiered on stage in (where else?) New York City.

Coraline is running from May 8th to June 20th, 2009, at the McC Theater at The Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street in New York. Here's a synopsis from the McC: A musical like no other, Coraline sprang from the minds of three of the most wildly popular cult figures of our time. Adapted from the terrifying children’s book by Neil Gaiman, this tale of menace and mayhem is set to music and lyrics by smart-rock iconoclast Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields (pictured) and boasts a book by celebrated downtown actor/playwright David Greenspan, who serves double-duty as the villainous Other Mother. Tony nominee Jayne Houdyshell stars in the title role, and bringing it all

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The Surprising Beauty of the YouTube Symphony

16 April 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news

Ever think you'd see YouTube videos in Carnegie Hall?

Last night, Google and YouTube presented the premiere of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, a collaborative online effort featuring 96 classical musicians from around the world and chosen from among thousands of applicants via YouTube submissions.

The three-hour concert, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, was a "potpourri... of movements and excerpts from 15 wildly diverse works," according to The New York Times. The musicians, whose video bios were projected behind them on the stage, hailed from 30 different countries, and presented a message of unity through music by way of a progressive, if unconventional crowd sourced approach to creating the orchestra.

The group performed after only two real days of virtual rehearsal--albeit long ones, each one lasting from 10am to 9 at night.

The Times review sniffed that orchestral enthusiasts might have found the presentation too light on substance, but the crowd responded

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Chris Dannen

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Vibrant and Varied Works on Paper

9 January 2009 5:36 PM, PST | From www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news

Winter Salon: Works on Paper

Björn Ressle Gallery

Björn Ressle has had galleries in Stockholm, Bogota, and now New York, specializing in abstract, minimal, and conceptual art. When I asked him the theme of his current exhibition, he responded "nepotism" with a knowing smile. I like that, the straightforwardness, the honesty -- and when you look at the roster of names, which include Carl Andre, George Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, George Condo, Neil Jenny, Alex Katz, Sol Lewitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and more, you can't help but be impressed.

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2009 | 2002

4 articles from 2009

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