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Deborah Jowitt / The Village Voice
Yvonne Rainer
RoS Indexical - Performance Details
Performa 07
Hudson Theater
November 18-19, 2007
"Rite in Progress: Yvonne Rainer Jumps Over Two Sets of Decades"
"RoS Indexical, commissioned by Performa 07 for its three-week art fest, is a double palimpsest rooted in Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, as choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Rainer focuses on the 1913 Paris premiere, during which spectators scandalized by Stravinsky's dissonances and Nijinsky's primitivism yelled their disapproval and were shushed, even punched, by partisans." Read review...
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Xavier Le Roy
Le Sacre Du Printemps - Performance Details
Performa 07
Baryshnikov Arts Center
November 15-17, 2007
Yvonne Rainer
RoS Indexical - Performance Details
Performa 07
Hudson Theater
November 18-19, 2007
"Xavier Le Roy's The Rite of Spring & Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical"
"The stronger of the two works, Xavier Le Roy's The Rite of Spring, presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, is heavy on the concept and light on the execution." Read review...
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Gia Kourlas / Time Out New York
Xavier Le Roy
Le Sacre Du Printemps - Performance Details
Performa 07
Baryshnikov Arts Center
November 15-17, 2007
"All the Rite moves: Xavier Le Roy faces the music (and sort of dances)"
"[Xavier] Le Roy, who returns to New York for the first time since 2002, offers something completely different with Le sacre du printemps, in which he studies the relationship between gesture and music." Read review...
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Claudia La Rocco / New York Times
Yvonne Rainer
RoS Indexical - Performance Details
Performa 07
Hudson Theater
November 18-19, 2007
"Choreographic Challenge: Another Dive Into the Enduring Mystery of 'Rite of Spring'"
"[Yvonne Rainer] recently returned to choreography after several decades as a filmmaker, and heading into "RoS Indexical," it was possible to hope that a confrontation of such foreign sensibilities would yield rich results. But alas, neither semiotics nor historical street cred could save her." Read review...
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Anna Brady Nuse / Move the Frame
Filmmaker: Isaac Julien
Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
Filmwork for multidisciplinary performance: Cast No Shadow
Event: Performa07
Venue: BAM Harvey Theater
Date: November 6, 2007
"Last night I saw Isaac Julien's Cast No Shadow, created in collaboration with choreographer Russell Maliphant, at BAM as part of the Next Wave Festival and PERFORMA07. Like Claudia La Rocco's review in the New York Times from Nov 8th, I was ecstatically overwhelmed by Julien's films, and frustratingly underwhelmed by Maliphant's choreography." Read review...
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Eva Yaa Asantewaa / InfiniteBody
Filmmaker: Isaac Julien
Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
Filmwork for multidisciplinary performance: Cast No Shadow
Event: Performa07
Venue: BAM Harvey Theater
Date: November 6, 2007
"Isaac Julien's filmwork for the multidisciplinary performance, Cast No Shadow--a presentation of Performa07 and BAM's Next Wave Festival at the BAM Harvey Theater through tonight--is a poetic, color-saturated head trip with translucent, larger-than-life, in-your-face imagery. Absolutely beautiful. But what about dance?" Read review...
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