Swan Lake Samba Girl (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Kristin Sloan just wrote this excellent post on The Winger. Apparently, the Berliner Philharmoniker is doing like Misnomer did and is live-streaming their performances. Except they’ve set theirs up so that they have a permanent website and they charge people for viewing. You can buy either single or season tickets. And then you watch live [...]
24 Blog News (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
This April, Ohio State University (OSU) is launching the web-based initiative Synchronous Objects, a joint project of William Forsythe and OSU's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and bDesign/b (ACCAD)
Live for Films (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
Director: Gary Fleder Starring: Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi, Fairuza Balk, Gabrielle Anwar, Christopher Walken Running Time: 115 minutes Score: 10 / 10 This review by malkane316 - a truly great movie with great dialogue. Boat drinks to you all. Cheers to Daan for reminding me of this forgotten classic. The early and mid
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
San Francisco Ballet (Jan. 7-May 8, War Memorial Opera House) After last year's forward-looking 75th anniversary, Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson tends to tradition with a new "Swan Lake." Also tantalizing: the return of William Forsythe's slam-bam "In the...
FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Rock's original monster-man Alice Cooper has just been signed up as a special guest at next year's Texas Frightmare Weekend convention, May 1st through 3rd in Dallas, Texas. The appearance...
Swan Lake Samba Girl (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
(photo of Twyla Tharp’s Brief Fling by Lois Greenfield, from American Ballet Theater) There’s a good article by Joan Acocella in this week’s New Yorker reviewing a couple of recent dances at Brooklyn Academy of Music. In it, she talks about American choreographers and their uneasiness with ballet, their distrust of the dance form as inherently [...]
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
ShockTillYouDrop.com is reporting that Rob Zombie may return to direct a follow-up to his 2007 film, Halloween , which starred Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor Compton, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris and William Forsythe. If he indeed takes on the sequel, it would probably mean Tyrannosaurus Rex is being pushed back.
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Do yourself and the city a favor and see Kidd Pivot at On the Boards this weekend . You've been trying to limber up the rigid bodies and brains at Pacific Northwest Ballet for the last couple of years (bringing dances by Jerome Robbins , Benjamin Millepied, and William Forsythe ), but this shit will blow your skull open . Crystal Pite's choreography begins with a brawl—an obscure (possibly schoolyard)...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Kidd Pivot, who will perform this weekend at On the Boards , should've been a Stranger Suggests. But there's never room for everything. Its choreographer Crystal Pite has worked with the world-famous Nederlands Dans Theater and danced for William Forsythe—whose polarizing One Flat Thing, reproduced was recently performed at the ballet, where it inspired wild applause, dozens of angry walkouts , and...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
You get great turns by Jennifer Connelly, the great Burt Young (Paulie!), Tuesday Weld looking crazy hot even in middle age (but if you really want to go ga-ga for Weld, check out PRETTY POISON with Anthony Perkins), Treat Williams (remember when he used be in big movies and was really damn good in them'), Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello (who has one of my favorite scenes in the movie, as a police captain...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
In the auction scene from William Forsythe's Impressing the Czar, props and dancers are dragged forward and displayed to the audience. Agnes, the main speaking character, tries to keep control. As she harangued audience and dancers, I wondered if Forsythe was aiming for a Monty Python effect: absurd detail, manic action, surrealism. If so, it falls flat.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Although little known in Britain, Gerald Arpino was a prolific choreographer in America whose gift was to make ballets that the public liked and purist critics mocked. "He knew how to draw people into ballet", said Ashley Wheater, who succeeds him as Director of the Joffrey Ballet. "He knew how to capture his audience with his choreography."
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Benjamin Millepied's "3 Movements" makes an exciting debut at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Also on the bill: Mark Morris' "A Garden," Kiyon Gaines' "M-Pulse" and William Forsythe's "One flat thing, reproduced."
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
88 Minutes (2007) 2 out of 5 stars Reviewed by Tom Elce Directed by Jon Avnet Cast: Al Pacino, Neal McDonough, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, William Forsythe, Deborah Kara Unger, Benjamin McKenzie, Leah Cairns Rated: R (MPAA), 15 (BBFC) As it meanders towards a conclusion of such inanity it deserved to be relegated to the barren wasteland of straight-to-DVD releases (rather than simply...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Pacific Northwest Ballet director Peter Boal could have looked further and found an even more disparate set of dances for this New Works show (through Sun., Nov. 16), but the four pieces on the program already come from the edges of the art. A Garden , by acclaimed modernist choreo...
