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Thanks to Jason Farrer for this link.

Ghosts can be scary, but the human psyche is scarier.

Horror movies will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. They act as metaphors–scary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Without ghosts to explain haunted houses, we are left with the pain sites of crumbling careers, failing marriages, abused children. In Rumble Ghost, as the flimsy membrane between an American horror movie classic and the fragility of the human condition deteriorates, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there: in your mind.

Written and Choreographed by Jack Ferver.
Performed by Benjamin Asriel, Reid Bartelme, Christian Coulson, Carlye Eckert, Jack Ferver, Michelle Mola, Breanna O’Mara.
Dramaturgy by Joshua Lubin-Levy.
Original Score by Calder Kusmierski Singer.
Costumes by Reid Bartelme.

DEC 8th-DEC 12th

Tickets can be purchased HERE !

EXCEPTIONAL OCCASION IN LAUSANNE !

Conception & performance by Marie-Caroline Hominal & François Chaignaud, taking place tonight and tomorrow night at 9PM at Theatre Sevelin 36, in the framework of the Festival Les Urbaines.

BE THERE !

by Laura Schwamb and Makram Hamdan

A gallery exhibition and solo performance at Center for Performance Research

A collaboration of visual art and dance, the evening begins with a gallery exhibition of works by Laura Schwamb. Her videos, animated neon, and black and white images set the atmosphere for the performance. Her concept of having a human bridle fabricated was beautifully realized and made possible by Johnny Farah. The exhibition is followed by a solo performance in the main theater by Makram Hamdan. Using the show’s theme, conceived by Laura Schwamb, Makram Hamdan engages to push the limits of poetic control, visceral constraint, and physical endurance in a challenging semi-autobiographical performance based on memory.
CPR – Center for Performance Research December 9, 10, and 11. 2010.

Gallery exhibition opens at 7:00pm – Performance begins at 8pm – SHARP

To see a fashion designer claiming Hip Hop as their main cultural reference is unusual, but the fashion intelligentsia might have to get with the program and get used to it. First Adam Kimmel and his ghetto-burlesque, americano-centrique presentations, and yesterday, Boris’ ode to Berlin’s underground (pun intended).

I am a biased observer. Everything I love was there, in these humid catacombs: contemporary, experimental fashion, heavy drum beats, sweat, skin and mysterious nocturnal atmosphere. The birth of Steam-Hop? (phew, maybe I should consider working in a yogurt brand, invent new names all day.) I never thought I would feel again the way I used to feel at the “Battle of the year” in the early 90′s, but yesterday, I did. And I am grateful for this.

In the below images you will NOT find images of the actual performance, since I was busy drinking at the bar and chatting with Maxime Ballesteros and Jen, causing me to not notice it had started. These are only images of the rehearsals. Basically, the final thing was that but everybody had amazing Boris-designed outfits. And with tons of people around.

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One of the most fascinating video to this day.

Dancers are No Noize (red jacket), Man (back jacket), BJ (striped shirt), Dreal (white shirt).

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