Still from Fred Hatt's video for "Ka=Fire Mi=Water"
This week in New York there are two performances I’m associated with and recommend.
On Sunday, October 18, at 8:30 pm, Monkey Town, Brooklyn’s immersive video cube bar/restaurant presents a program of Music and Butoh (Japanese avant-garde dance). My elemental video imagery is part of the performance Ka = Fire Mi = Water, by dancer Mariko Endo with live music by Gregory Reynolds. “Kami” is a Japanese word for God. Its syllables are the words for fire and water. It suggests a conception of spirit as a circulation of rising and falling energies, and that’s about as good a description of what this piece is about that I can offer.
Also running from tonight through the 18th, Seeing Place Theater‘s production of Keith Bunin’s play The Credeaux Canvas is presented at the Bridge Theater at Shetler Studios. This is an intense little story with complex, nuanced characters, and its depiction of young New York bohemians is rich and real. The lead actress is Anna Marie Sell, whose portrait by me graced the cover of American Artist Drawing Magazine last Spring. Anna Marie models for an artist in the play. The director of this production is the multitalented Lillian Wright, also an actress and a great model I’ve worked with many times. Lillian was the model for my light painting photograph below, which was used for the postcard and program for this show:
Lightpainting for "The Credeaux Canvas", 2008, photo by Fred Hatt
To keep up with my performances, exhibits and events, check the “Calendar” page on this blog.
