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Thursday, 25 February 2010
 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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Thursday, 18 February 2010
Triadic Memories
represents the pinnacle of Morton
Feldman's work for solo piano — a
95-minute work absolutely unique in its contemplative exploration of
tone, decay and attack. Marilyn Nonken, who recorded the work for Mode Records in 2004, will perform Triadic
Memories at the Players Theatre, 115 Macdougal Street, at 8.00pm on
Wednesday, 3 March 2010. John Rockwell in The New York Times
called it "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."
Marilyn discussed the work at the end of my 2006 interview with her. She said:
Bringing the piece to the public is when it came alive for
me. Performing in real time, there is always a thrill that comes from
knowing that everything matters that much more. I can't help but be more
self-aware. But playing Feldman's music, I also find myself that much
more aware of my listeners. When I play Triadic Memories for
Feldman fans, the intensity of our shared focus is just wild. I sense us
all united within the space, to the point we're almost breathing at the
same rate. Other times, when I perform Triadic Memories for
audiences less comfortable with Feldman's music, I can sense their
dissatisfaction and anxiety. Whatever the reaction, this music creates
such a delicate atmosphere, and the energy from the audience feeds into it
as well. In the sense of John Cage, the drama with this piece is not just
what's going on onstage. It's what going on in the hall.
Tickets are $20.00 and available online here.
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Monday, 21 December 2009
 The Ontological-Hysteric
Incubator rings in 2010 with a new series, Other
Forces, which will coincide with the annual conference of the Association of
Performing Arts Presenters. Other Forces runs 6-16 January
2010 and features remounts of three full productions.
And what productions they are. Starting on 6 January, Kevin Doyle's
Sponsored by Nobody company revives Behind the
Bullseye, an
examination of American consumerism centering on the Target superstore at
Atlantic Terminal Mall in Brooklyn. Bringing together questions of class,
gentification and globalization, Behind the Bullseye "looks like
one of Reverend Billy's nightmares staged by Robert Wilson on a budget,"
Jason Zinoman said in the New York Times.
The next night, 7 January, The Debate Society's A Thought About
Raya, a meditation on the work of Leningrad artist Daniil
Kharms, returns to the OHT. "Complex themes of love, sex, violence,
and death pepper this simple story of the search for a voice in the midst
of chaos," goes the press material. The Debate Society's usual
suspects — director Oliver Butler and performers Hannah Bos and
Paul Thureen — participate.
Later that same night, 31 Down's The Assember
Dilator, "a sonic meltdown of science fiction and human desperation
focused on the development of x-ray vision and its consequences, obvious
and unknown," will be remounted. The chronicle of a bizarre hallucinogenic
medical trial, The Assember Dilator was originally produced
earlier this year at PS122.
The three productions will run in repertory through 16 January. A full
schedule and ticket information can be found here.
Not a group to rest on their laurels, the Incubator team will then present
The Theater of a
Two-Headed Calf's latest project, a revival of Susan Glaspell's
1916 one-act play Trifles, beginning 28 January. Brooke O'Harra
directs and Brendan Connelly scores the work, which features design by
Incubator stalwarts Peter Ksander and Justin Townsend as well as 2HC
regulars Mike Mikos and Laryssa Husiak and the Yarn/Wire New Music
Ensemble. "The text encounters a moment in the real-life murder case
that Glaspell covered extensively as a reporter in 1900, wherein a man was
killed by his wife," goes the press material. "Director Brooke O'Harra
argues this feminist play speaks through its truly radical form — as
opposed to its narrative." Tickets are now available through the Ontological box
office or online at TheaterMania.
Finally, take note of A Piece of Monologue, an interesting blog
from Rhys Tranter, a postgraduate student living in Penarth, Wales. The
site offers an ongoing critique of Modernist texts, continental philosophy
and Samuel Beckett, all subjects dear to our heart.
Photo from The Assember Dilator by Paula Court.
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