Performing Arts Journal articles from January 1994

Performing Arts Journal archives from January 1994

In memory of their feelings. (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... 1. DANCERS ON A PLANE I don't see them. There. The dancers are there, invisible--an analogue to racing thoughts. Framed by the utensils of eating. A meal to be eaten? An invisible meal. Two meals: one light, one...

Whole point space #1. (Bodies of Work: Ages of the Avant-Garde)
January 1, 1994... I wish there were more performance opportunities but I have felt this way since I was sixteen. To this day, every time I perform, especially in New York, I am aware that buried, but not out of sight, is the hope that a powerful producer is...

Drama for voice and strings. (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... To talk about my theatre, which I usually describe as an abstract theatre or a theatre without actors, inevitably means talking a little bit about a particular theatre history. For the last hundred years the theatre, or, to be precise, the...

Scars: painting, photography, performance, pornography, and the disfigurement of art. (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... For Roland Barthes, the scriptible is the ideal text in which, he writes, "the networks are many and interact, without any one of them being able to surpass the rest; this text is a galaxy of signifiers, not a structure of signifieds; it has...

The sense of an ending. (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... BOOKS REVIEWS--Theandric: Julian Beck's Last Notebooks. Ed. by Erica Bilder and Judith Malina. Philadelphia: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1992. Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly. The Essays and Opinions of Charles Ludlam. Ed. by...

Theandric: Julian Beck's Last Notebooks.
January 1, 1994... I insist on theatre. I insist on it because I recognize it as a ritual without which our survival loses ground to the pale of death, always encroaching, death with its breathless silence moving down on us. ...

Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly, The Essays and Opinions of Charles Ludlam.
January 1, 1994... Any artist experiments, but all experimenting should be over by the time the audience comes in. --Charles Ludlam Superficially, few figures seem as antithetical--physically, personally, artistically--as Julian Beck and Charles...

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life.
January 1, 1994... The experimental artist today is the un-artist. Not the anti-artist but the artist emptied of art. --Allan Kaprow Julian Beck also played a significant role in the emergence of that quintessential art form of the 60s--the Happening....

Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater.
January 1, 1994... At every moment the world presents us with a composition in which a multitude of meanings and realities are available, and you are able to swim, lucid and self-contained, in that turbulent ocean ...

Theories of cultural relativity. (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... The relatively of recent cultural politics has been a necessary correlative to the changing demographics in the United States. Yet these changes threaten to destroy whatever cohesion that American culture once had. What had been regarded as...

Sandy Skoglund. (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... Sandy Skoglund is one of the creators or re-inventors of a genre of art based in photography that involves the construction of theatricalized settings within which costumed figures are posed interacting in various ways that suggest both...

St. Gertrude. (Gertrude Stein) (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... I "Through a window with a grate covered by a veil, I spoke with those who came to visit me," St. Therese of Avila described convent life in her Book of Foundations. The sense of a framed life would appeal to Gertrude Stein who...

Ages of the avant-garde. (Bodies of Work)
January 1, 1994... As we move toward the middle of the last decade of the twentieth century, a half century since a truly American avant-garde performance began to evolve, we thought it might be an opportune time to ask the generations responsible for this...