Bet you’re wondering what we’re up to now that Wordless is over. We are looking back, cleaning up, and looking forward (way, way forward). Right now, we’re putting some materials from this amazing year into the Whitney’s archive, so before we do let’s have a little round up of a few high points.
From SITI Company to My Barbarian to Marissa Nadler, Whitney Live’s 2007-08 season started off with a serious bang. My Barbarian’s Malik, Jade, and Alex brought their hilarious nautical musical spectacle Voyage of the White Widow to Whitney Live during Performa 07. Dan Deacon wasn’t the first to offer up an audience dance-off….here’s My Barbarian’s version.
The lovely Ryan Kelly and Brennan Gerard from Moving Theater brought us Impermanent Collection, an ambitious collaboration with An Films and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) that made us think about performance in the context of a museum and “the fundamental instability of live art.”
John Hollenbeck, Andy Biskin, and J.G. Thirlwell came by and offered us new work mixed with robots and cappuccino frothers.
In the Spring, Nick Didkovsky and Tristan Perich offered up their takes on the Composers’ Showcase format. That’s Nick’s son checking out Tristan’s piano piece Asynchronous.
The man, the brand, the legend, Dan Deacon (and his friend Balloon-Head-Guy) hosted our 2nd audience dance-off of the year and people got seriously down.
Helga Davis was here with Pyrolater and Lukas Ligeti, sharing aural musings on the Whitney’s Kara Walker exhibition.
Incredibly, Ede Thurrell and our other friends from Chez Bushwick embraced our concrete floors….
And the Biennial. Who could forget Kembra and her Karen Black girls!
It was quite a year… What’s next??? Stay tuned for more about upcoming performances very very soon!
Tags: Chez Bushwick, Dan Deacon, Helga Davis, ICE, John Hollenbeck, Marissa Nadler, Moving Theater, My Barbarian, Performa, SITI, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Tristan Perich
