Superfluities Redux

by George Hunka
Artistic director, theatre minima

A Theatre Surrounds a City:
Vienna's Burgtheater


Thursday, 25 February 2010

Upcoming: Feldman, Dix, Barker

Next Wednesday, 3 March, at 8.00pm, Marilyn Nonken performs the 95-minute Morton Feldman piano solo Triadic Memories at the Players Theatre, 115 Macdougal Street. Her highly-regarded recording of the piece for Mode Records was described by John Rockwell in The New York Times as "a lovely performance of a lovely piece," and Ivan Hewitt in The London Times said, "Any pianist wanting to play Feldman needs the most exquisite touch, and also great stamina, and Marilyn Nonken clearly has both in abundance." Tickets are $20.00 and available online here.

The following week, on 11 March, a major exhibition of the work of German painter Otto Dix opens at the Neue Galerie on the Upper East Side, just steps from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The first one-man museum exhibition of works by Dix in North America, the show includes more than 100 items, divided into the themes of the military, portraiture, sexuality, and religion and allegory. Otto Dix runs through 30 August; more information about the show here.

Finally, the Web page for the 10 May Howard Barker at the Segal Center, co-produced by theatre minima, went up only yesterday. I am looking forward to the event and to posting additional details about participants and the schedule of the day's offerings shortly.



Bottom graphic: Otto Dix, Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber, 1925. Oil and tempera on plywood, 120 x 65 cm (47 1/4 x 25 5/8 in.).

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