RoxanneLola MovementMachine presents the premiere of Anne Zuerner’s first evening length work, NEAR THE FAR, a site-specific contemporary dance work for CPR’s brand new performance space. This emotionally intense, cinematic work, features remarkable dancing by Emma Desjardins (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Ellie Kusner (Pam Tanowitz Dance), Adele Nickel (Sara Michelson’s Dover Beach, Liz Gerring Dance, CorbinDan…ces), and Anne Zuerner, as well as a haunting, original score for keyboard and synthesizer composed and performed live by Porcelain Skyline. Painter David Pappaceno contributes his visionary designs to CPR’s large white walls.

Performances will take place:

Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00pm,
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and 9:00pm.

Tickets are $17 and available online at smarttix.com, (212) 868-4444, and at the door.

Only 30 audience members may attend each performance, so reservations are recommended!

More infos: Center for Performance Research

Yesterday was held at the New York Swiss Institute, with the blessing of the auspicious Gianni Jetzer, the official presentation of our—nearly—new born baby “Novembre“. It was a very nice night full of friends, performances & bloody mary. I personally want to thank Jeanne-Salomé & Clément for putting it all up, the performers & attendees, and Ting Ting for helpful assistance. An more exhaustive report will be posted in the next few days!

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Couple of nice recent pieces from rising Norwegian artist Erik Tidemann who we profiled earlier this year. Kinder bueno indeed. More at http://www.myspace.com/eriktidemann

This is not a post about our favourite Milan graffiti writer but about a nice area of Brooklyn where took place an art show yesterday to which our friend, tattoo artist Mark Cross took part.

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On the Sleeve (by Bradley Paul)

Oh, I was angry.
The guy was like “you’re a dick”
and I was like “No, you’re a dick,”
and he was like “I want to kill you”
and I was like “No, I want to kill you,”
and we kept that up for a good while.
But we resolved it so
now I’m happy, and
the sugars are solid
in the flesh of the pear
until a gale of diesel exhaust
blackens our lunch
and soots the café window.
Now I feel frustrated
at the cosmic antipathy
toward eating a decent pear.
It’s like this Iraq business,
or cancer out of nowhere.
One day everyone’s surplussing along,
the next day
all these people are dead.
The guy says
“That’s what a dick like you deserves,”
and I am angry with him again.
Call this a volatile
and artless set of moods,
self-centered, whatever,
but when the dog soldiers come to eat my heart,
their red velvet tunics
crusted hard in guts
that used to be wet,
I easily toss them my spleen
and as they gnash each other’s haunches
in a bloody dog soldier scrum
I skip away,
keeping my heart,
or so one says
to stay happy, happy, happy.