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The Future is Bright and Wide Open at Pacific Northwest Ballet's Newest Emergence!

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  Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Crystal Pite's Emergence, which PNB is presenting on a mixed-bill with works by Jerome Robbins, Marco Goecke, and Price Suddarth, onstage at Seattle Center's McCaw Hall March 14 - 23 (and streaming for digital subscribers March 27 - 31.) For tickets and information, contact the PNB Box Office, 206.441.2424 or PNB.org. Photo (c) Angela Sterling. Sometimes the whole of something can be very different than the sum of its parts and sometimes a ballet can read very differently than the intentions of the artists and choreographers of the works presented. Emergence—as a whole, not just the eponymous Crystal Pite work, is one of those cases in which, because of incredible curation, and because of placement, becomes something completely different than the stated intentions put forward for each individual work.  Emergence, consists of four very different dances. Dawn Patrol choreographed by Price Suddarth is a world premiere for the Pacifi...
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Dreamspace Disneyland – Paul McCarthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Mikhail Bakhtin, Me and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride--Originally published in Seattle Post Intelligencer March 17, 2013

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  ·        SEATTLE ARTS AND CULTURE Dreamspace Disneyland – Paul McCarthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Mikhail Bakhtin, Me and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride By  xavier_lopez_jr   on March 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM           ·         Awhile back I was lucky enough to have been in the audience at the Seattle Art Museum auditorium when one of my all-time favorite artists, Paul McCarthy presented an amazingly watered-down overview of his important place in history–I assume that this was because somebody decided that the audience would not be able to handle his more provocative, scatological and political work that takes on Kristeva-like mixes of blood and viscera, sado-masochism, George Bush and her majesty the Queen.  Who knows, though.  This person or persons may have even been right, but because of them what followed was really tepid and n...
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An Interview with Prague Performance Artist Darina Alster: Eastern European Speculative Feminism, Performance and the Velvet Revolution!

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This month, CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art) and Peter Bill are presenting the work of Prague, Czech Republic performance artist and Art Star, Darina Alster, whose work deals with magic, feminism, post humanism.  Her performance packs a feminist punch that if you ever get a chance to see it will leave you forever changed.  Here is an interview that I had with the amazing post postmodern artist! Xavier: I would like to focus on your history, goals, feminism and posthumanism. And how you came up to Seattle! Peter says you have a huge following in Prague. Peter says you have a huge following in Prague. Peter Bill:  Darina is a Praha (Prague) Art Star. I wish she would talk a bit about the controversy in her studio this past semester, and how she so well defended her assistant Kača Olivová when she faced a reactionary petition against performance art! Xavier:   That is wonderful, we will definitely get to that, but first, Darina, can you please take a moment t...
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