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David Spelman Re-Imagines Brian Eno’s Apollo with Mike Gordon, Larry Campbell and Itsnotyouitsme
Relix Magazine
Sam Davis
December 29, 2011
The New York Guitar Festival was founded in 1999 by musician/producer David Spelman. The event will run from January 6-29 at a variety of area venues. Opening night is a free performance at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden. There “The Apollo Project” will mark the 30th anniversary of Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks with a live “re-imagining” of the recording featuring Mike Gordon, Larry Campbell, Itsnotyouitsme, Noveller and Tortoise’s Jeff Parker. Here Spelman discusses that event and the festival as a whole... (more)
Relix Magazine
Sam Davis
December 29, 2011
The New York Guitar Festival was founded in 1999 by musician/producer David Spelman. The event will run from January 6-29 at a variety of area venues. Opening night is a free performance at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden. There “The Apollo Project” will mark the 30th anniversary of Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks with a live “re-imagining” of the recording featuring Mike Gordon, Larry Campbell, Itsnotyouitsme, Noveller and Tortoise’s Jeff Parker. Here Spelman discusses that event and the festival as a whole... (more)
New York Theatre Ballet Performs Nutcracker Downtown
DNAinfo.com
Ben Fractenberg
November 29, 2011
DOWNTOWN — Hundreds of school children, teachers and parents gathered under the glass-vaulted atrium of the World Financial Center for an Art Nouveau version of The Nutcracker Tuesday.
The performance was the world premier by the New York Theatre Ballet at the Winter Garden at 200 Vesey St...more
DNAinfo.com
Ben Fractenberg
November 29, 2011
DOWNTOWN — Hundreds of school children, teachers and parents gathered under the glass-vaulted atrium of the World Financial Center for an Art Nouveau version of The Nutcracker Tuesday.
The performance was the world premier by the New York Theatre Ballet at the Winter Garden at 200 Vesey St...more
Canned Food Art of Converse, Angry Birds & Lady Gaga's Shoe Help Feed The Hungry
MTV
Caroline Walker
November 14, 2011
For Canstruction 2011, Angry Birds just got the aluminum treatment — and oh my, does that angry bird look artsy. The same can be said of Lady Gaga's gravity-defying platform pumps. (We think Alexander McQueen would approve.) The Brooklyn Bridge, a Converse kick, a fully functional QR code ... all canified. So where can you find over 100,000 tins reinterpreted as pop cultural scupltural sensations?...more
MTV
Caroline Walker
November 14, 2011
For Canstruction 2011, Angry Birds just got the aluminum treatment — and oh my, does that angry bird look artsy. The same can be said of Lady Gaga's gravity-defying platform pumps. (We think Alexander McQueen would approve.) The Brooklyn Bridge, a Converse kick, a fully functional QR code ... all canified. So where can you find over 100,000 tins reinterpreted as pop cultural scupltural sensations?...more
19th Annual Canstruction kicks off in downtown Manhattan
examiner.com
Tanvier Lee
November 11, 2011
An exhibition of giant sculptures that not only feed the imagination of those who view them but also literally help feed the hungry. That is the premise of Canstruction, the wacky, wonderful and truly unique annual international charity competition conceived by the Society for Design Administration. Architects, engineers, contractors and the students they mentor, compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food...more
examiner.com
Tanvier Lee
November 11, 2011
An exhibition of giant sculptures that not only feed the imagination of those who view them but also literally help feed the hungry. That is the premise of Canstruction, the wacky, wonderful and truly unique annual international charity competition conceived by the Society for Design Administration. Architects, engineers, contractors and the students they mentor, compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food...more
Airborne Bodies and Balls
The New York Times
Gia Kourlas
July 15, 2011
For its “Extraordinary Moves” programming, the River to River Festival took to the air with the aid of — in order — skirts, balls and bodies. (This is what is known as saving the best for last.) On Thursday evening performances by the Australian group Strange Fruit, the juggler Michael Moschen and the Streb Extreme Action Company took place under a glaring sun at the World Financial Center Plaza... (more)
The New York Times
Gia Kourlas
July 15, 2011
For its “Extraordinary Moves” programming, the River to River Festival took to the air with the aid of — in order — skirts, balls and bodies. (This is what is known as saving the best for last.) On Thursday evening performances by the Australian group Strange Fruit, the juggler Michael Moschen and the Streb Extreme Action Company took place under a glaring sun at the World Financial Center Plaza... (more)
Feiffer’s Dancer Returns to Leap Ever So Seriously
The New York Times
Claudia La Rocco
July 6, 2011
The ebullient, emotional dancer first came to the public’s attention in 1957. Year after year she was moved to express herself: trenchant political criticism, urban anxiety, seasonal highs and lows. You name it, she danced it. Accompanied by sparse words, her lithe, flexible body sprang and collapsed in modern dance poses, creating a choreographed phrase across the newspaper page. And then in 2000, still looking trim in her unitard, she retired... (more)
The New York Times
Claudia La Rocco
July 6, 2011
The ebullient, emotional dancer first came to the public’s attention in 1957. Year after year she was moved to express herself: trenchant political criticism, urban anxiety, seasonal highs and lows. You name it, she danced it. Accompanied by sparse words, her lithe, flexible body sprang and collapsed in modern dance poses, creating a choreographed phrase across the newspaper page. And then in 2000, still looking trim in her unitard, she retired... (more)
A Dance to Jules Feiffer: The cartoonist's most famous character comes to new life on screen
The Village Voice
Apollinaire Scherr
July 6, 2011
When Jules Feiffer was still "a kid, hanging out in the Village," he says, "unemployed and unemployable, without the weekly cartoon in the Voice," he met a young woman who would sleep with him. She was a modern dancer... (more)
The Village Voice
Apollinaire Scherr
July 6, 2011
When Jules Feiffer was still "a kid, hanging out in the Village," he says, "unemployed and unemployable, without the weekly cartoon in the Voice," he met a young woman who would sleep with him. She was a modern dancer... (more)
Rufus Wainwright Goes to the Opera
Time Out New York
June 28, 2011
River to River Festival. When Rufus Wainwright's first opera, Prima Donna, opens at City Opera next spring, it will surely be a hot ticket. Find out what the buzz is about at this free preview concert, where the heart-achingly expressive singer-songwriter will be joined by a lineup of opera singers and pianist Kevin Murphy to perform excerpts from the show.
Time Out New York
June 28, 2011
River to River Festival. When Rufus Wainwright's first opera, Prima Donna, opens at City Opera next spring, it will surely be a hot ticket. Find out what the buzz is about at this free preview concert, where the heart-achingly expressive singer-songwriter will be joined by a lineup of opera singers and pianist Kevin Murphy to perform excerpts from the show.
13 Hours of Sounds and Psychedelia
The New York Times
Vivien Schweitzer
June 25, 2011
Listeners at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center had to jump out of the way as the Asphalt Orchestra, a brainchild of Bang on a Can, snaked its way through the large crowd at the annual Bang on a Can Marathon on Sunday. The orchestra, an ebullient, avant-garde marching band that blends performance art with inventive new works and funky arrangements, offered a version of Frank Zappa’s “Zomby Woof” by Peter Hess (the group’s tenor saxophonist); an arrangement of Bjork’s “Hyper-Ballad” by Alan Ferber; and Goran Bregovic’s exuberant “Champagne"... (more)
The New York Times
Vivien Schweitzer
June 25, 2011
Listeners at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center had to jump out of the way as the Asphalt Orchestra, a brainchild of Bang on a Can, snaked its way through the large crowd at the annual Bang on a Can Marathon on Sunday. The orchestra, an ebullient, avant-garde marching band that blends performance art with inventive new works and funky arrangements, offered a version of Frank Zappa’s “Zomby Woof” by Peter Hess (the group’s tenor saxophonist); an arrangement of Bjork’s “Hyper-Ballad” by Alan Ferber; and Goran Bregovic’s exuberant “Champagne"... (more)
Marathon concert kicks off River To River Fest
Downtown Express
Lily Bouvier
June 15, 2011
The 10th annual “River To River Festival” opens with a boom (a 13-hour-long “Bang” to be exact). The “Bang on a Can Marathon” — starting at 11am on Sun., June 19 and lasting until midnight — will kick off this year’s festival with a super-mix of genre-defying musicians. The lineup features more than 150 performers and composers — Philip Glass (live with the Bang on a Can All-Stars), Maya Beiser (“queen of contemporary cello”) and new takes on compositions by David Byrne, Yoko Ono and Frank Zappa. The epic event closes with music by sonic downtown legend Glenn Branca. Free (no tickets required), with a relaxed jeans-and-t-shirt atmosphere. If you don’t think you can last from dawn until dusk (and beyond), check out the full schedule of performances: bangonacan.org/marathon/schedule. At the World Financial Center Winter Garden and Plaza (220 Vesey St.). Following the “Bang on a Can Marathon,” the “River To River Festival” launches into a month crammed full of concerts. Look forward to Rufus Wainwright and the New York City Opera (June 28), Patti Smith (July 14), Vijay Iyer (June 23) and many others... (more)
Downtown Express
Lily Bouvier
June 15, 2011
The 10th annual “River To River Festival” opens with a boom (a 13-hour-long “Bang” to be exact). The “Bang on a Can Marathon” — starting at 11am on Sun., June 19 and lasting until midnight — will kick off this year’s festival with a super-mix of genre-defying musicians. The lineup features more than 150 performers and composers — Philip Glass (live with the Bang on a Can All-Stars), Maya Beiser (“queen of contemporary cello”) and new takes on compositions by David Byrne, Yoko Ono and Frank Zappa. The epic event closes with music by sonic downtown legend Glenn Branca. Free (no tickets required), with a relaxed jeans-and-t-shirt atmosphere. If you don’t think you can last from dawn until dusk (and beyond), check out the full schedule of performances: bangonacan.org/marathon/schedule. At the World Financial Center Winter Garden and Plaza (220 Vesey St.). Following the “Bang on a Can Marathon,” the “River To River Festival” launches into a month crammed full of concerts. Look forward to Rufus Wainwright and the New York City Opera (June 28), Patti Smith (July 14), Vijay Iyer (June 23) and many others... (more)
In a Cube, and Taking Cues From Text Messages
The New York Times
Joshua Brustein
May 13, 2011
A man and a woman wearing suits and flip-flops climbed into a large glass cube in the Winter Garden atrium downtown just before noon on Thursday, as the early lunch crowd from the World Financial Center filtered in... (more)
The New York Times
Joshua Brustein
May 13, 2011
A man and a woman wearing suits and flip-flops climbed into a large glass cube in the Winter Garden atrium downtown just before noon on Thursday, as the early lunch crowd from the World Financial Center filtered in... (more)
Texting for Arts Sake Comes to the Winter Garden
The Tribeca Trib
Lisa Riordan Seville
May 9, 2011
Technology has changed the way we talk, read and revolt. For three days, beginning Thursday, May 12, it will also shape the every move of a group of performers enclosed within an eight-foot Plexiglas cube in the World Financial Center Winter Garden... (more)
The Tribeca Trib
Lisa Riordan Seville
May 9, 2011
Technology has changed the way we talk, read and revolt. For three days, beginning Thursday, May 12, it will also shape the every move of a group of performers enclosed within an eight-foot Plexiglas cube in the World Financial Center Winter Garden... (more)
Courtesans on the Make and Actors on the Move
The New York Times
Rachel Saltz
March 11, 2011
Something strange is happening at the World Financial Center. Its shiny marble floors and shop-studded passageways are being transformed into a series of stages for the New York Classical Theater’s production of Aphra Behn’s 17th-century Restoration comedy “The Rover"... (more)
The New York Times
Rachel Saltz
March 11, 2011
Something strange is happening at the World Financial Center. Its shiny marble floors and shop-studded passageways are being transformed into a series of stages for the New York Classical Theater’s production of Aphra Behn’s 17th-century Restoration comedy “The Rover"... (more)
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