Come on over! We're screening the third part of our Dance film series celebrating the work of Lucinda Childs.
Tonight, it's Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera. The Philip Glass/Robert Wilson/Lucinda Childs collab broke the opera mold, and changed what we thought was possible with the genre. Nonetheless, I still can't find a full five-hour recording. Anybody have any leads? Email me.
Even though it's last-minute, please do RSVP to RSVP@livearts-fringe.org. Thanks!
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera screens tonight at 7:00 pm, Live Arts Studio, 919 North 5th Street, Northern Liberties. Free! For information on and tickets to Dance, click here
>>>Friday: Holiday-delayed First Friday. Good bets: Tiger Strikes Asteroid has "Lovetown, PA" upstairs from "Vox VI" at Vox Populi Gallery which is mere blocks from "A Guide to Salvation" at Space 1026.
>>>Saturday: Go find a state-run wine vending machine. Breathe into it to get your hooch. Contemplate how these make any sense. Quoth Keith Wallace of the Wine School of Philadelphia: "The process is cumbersome and assumes the worst in Pennsylvania's wine consumers, that we are a bunch of conniving underage drunks." Would we really have it any other way? If you find a machine, send us your pictures of blowing for booze.
>>>Saturday: Calling all dancers! Jumatatu Poe, who's new dance Unstuck will be featured in 8 (eight choreographers / eight new works) is leading a FREE workshop with his company idiosynCrazy productions from 12–3 at UArts where he will explore the question "What if there were only this moment . . . forever?" E-mail molly@livearts-fringe.org for details and to reserve a spot.
Posted At : July 8, 2010 12:59 PM | Posted By : Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
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Video, Philip Glass, Sol Lewitt
Did you know that Philip Glass is This American Life host Ira Glass's first-cousin-once-removed? That's probably the least interesting thing that you'll discover about the life and work of one of the most important living composers if you come to Live Arts' screening of Glass: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts this Sunday the 11th at 2 PM at ICA. Here's the trailer of the film, by the Academy Award-winning director of Shine, Scott Hicks:
The film is being shown as part of our own three-part documentary film series to provide context for the September performances of Lucinda Childs's Dance, with video by Sol Lewitt and music by Philip Glass, at the Live Arts Festival. Co-creator of the series Emma Ferguson says, "'Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts' is the result of eighteen months of interaction between director Scott Hicks and composer Philip Glass. Hicks shot his own footage of his meetings with Glass, which took place whenever and wherever their different work brought them together. Hicks filters fragments of Glass's life through a 12-part structure borrowed from Glass's own 'Music in Twelve Parts,' and the result is a reverent yet unclouded portrait of a brilliant composer and an inscrutable man."
It's going to be 90 degrees on Sunday, but ICA is air-conditioned. Glass will be introduced by oboist and English hornist Lloyd Shorter, co-director of Relâche Ensemble. Run time is 120 minutes, and the event is free. Please RSVP at rsvp@livearts-fringe.org.
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Journey to the West
Danny Yung unveils the origins of his re-staging of the classic Chinese opera Tears of Barren Hill at the 2010 Live Arts Festival.
Quote of Interest
"It is weird, mainly because some nights the actors on video, who are amazing Colombian actors, are better than other nights. I am not sure how that is possible."
- Thaddeus Phillips on acting with prerecorded video characters in his 2010 Live Arts show ¡EL CONQUISTADOR!.
Cool Ass Cat
This cat kills flowers for fun. This is one bad ass cat.
Alright, so maybe it's not quite abstract, but it's pickles holding open a door and that's wild, man.
Some Blogs
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Come on over! We're screening the third part of our Dance film series celebrating the work of Lucinda Childs.
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Danny Yung unveils the origins of his re-staging of the classic Chinese opera Tears of Barren Hill at the 
