Performance Artist Laurie Anderson to Receive 2015 Yaddo Artist Medal; Steve Buscemi to Host Benefit
Yaddo has announced that the second annual Yaddo Artist Medal will be presented to influential avant-garde composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson at its New York City Benefit on Monday, June 1, 2015. The event at the Tribeca Rooftop 2 Desbrosses St. will be hosted by actordirector Steve Buscemi and Kate Valk of The Wooster Group. Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, Obie Award winner Eisa Davis, and Obie Award winner Young Jean Lee-all Yaddo Artists-will perform.
- 4/10/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Members of the influential New York ensemble explain what prompted them finally to tackle the bard – and why Richard Burton's 1964 version was an inspiration
Before Punchdrunk, or Complicite, or Forced Entertainment, or any other experimental theatre company you can name, there was New York's Wooster Group, an avant-garde ensemble legendary not just for the work it has made since the 1970s, but also for the love affairs and betrayals that have coloured its history. As former member Willem Dafoe has put it: "You become accomplices in life. There's a terrific power in that. The other side is, there's no place to run."
Since 1974 the company has worked out of the Performing Garage in Soho – a Manhattan neighbourhood once characterised by derelict lofts and heroin dealers and now given over to Prada boutiques and cupcake-centric cafes. This year they're bringing one of their most successful shows ever – a remixed Hamlet...
Before Punchdrunk, or Complicite, or Forced Entertainment, or any other experimental theatre company you can name, there was New York's Wooster Group, an avant-garde ensemble legendary not just for the work it has made since the 1970s, but also for the love affairs and betrayals that have coloured its history. As former member Willem Dafoe has put it: "You become accomplices in life. There's a terrific power in that. The other side is, there's no place to run."
Since 1974 the company has worked out of the Performing Garage in Soho – a Manhattan neighbourhood once characterised by derelict lofts and heroin dealers and now given over to Prada boutiques and cupcake-centric cafes. This year they're bringing one of their most successful shows ever – a remixed Hamlet...
- 8/10/2013
- by Hermione Hoby
- The Guardian - Film News
If you’re ever curious to get inside the head of a theater performer, “Process in Performance” is a place to go. The monthly Monday night interview series, started by actor Nick Westrate, creates a dialogue between theater artists in order to deepen understanding of one another’s work and shed light on the process.The series, a part of the New York Theatre Workshop’s Larson Lab, has featured the likes of Ellen Lauren (“Freshwater”), David Greenspan (“Go Back to Where You Are”), Elizabeth Marvel (“True Grit,” “Burn After Reading”) and a founding member of The Wooster Group, Kate Valk. After graduating from Juilliard’s drama program, Westrate joined Nytw, performing in last season’s production of Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes,” directed by Ivo van Hove. For Westrate, the non-traditional production and his interest in the type of work that “wasn’t strained by realistic parameters” was...
- 5/11/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Briana Rodriguez)
- backstage.com
The new Spring 2012 issue of Cineaste is out and selections online include James L Neibaur on Kino's Blu-ray releases of Buster Keaton's work (as well as eleven more DVD/Blu-ray reviews), Andrew Horton's remembrance of Theo Angelopolous, Anchalee Chaiwaraporn and Kong Rithdee on the politics of Thai film and the opening paragraphs of Thomas Doherty's review of Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director:
Generally admiring but never intoxicated, Patrick McGilligan's insightful biography is a chronicle not only of the troubled director but also of the Hollywood studio system at dusk, the vagaries of the multilateral skirmishes between French, British, and American film criticism, and the political follies roiling through twentieth-century America. The author of well-regarded biographies of Fritz Lang and Clint Eastwood and the editor of the invaluable Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters (who all prove to be much more than...
Generally admiring but never intoxicated, Patrick McGilligan's insightful biography is a chronicle not only of the troubled director but also of the Hollywood studio system at dusk, the vagaries of the multilateral skirmishes between French, British, and American film criticism, and the political follies roiling through twentieth-century America. The author of well-regarded biographies of Fritz Lang and Clint Eastwood and the editor of the invaluable Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters (who all prove to be much more than...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
What's the best piece of acting advice you ever got?Traycee KingLos Angeles; 'He's Just Not That Into You,' 'Eleventh Hour'A few years ago, I had this acting coach who was very honest with me. He used to tell me to just "let go," and what he meant by "let go" was forget everything I was taught and "become" whoever I was trying to portray. Because if I got caught "acting," everyone would know and my performance would be known as a lie.He also said that it shouldn't be called "acting" but "becoming." We have to allow ourselves to let go and be vulnerable and allow people to question our sanity. Then the audience will forget they're watching a performance and feel guilty about intruding in our personal lives, and that's what you want.It was the best advice I was given, because up until...
- 3/2/2010
- backstage.com
Maura Tierney, who dropped out of the upcoming NBC drama Parenthood to accommodate her breast cancer treatments, will return to work next month in the bicoastal play, North Atlantic, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Maura Tierney leaves Parenthood
Tierney will star alongside Frances McDormand and Wooster Group actors Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd and Koosil-ja Hwang, in the production, which focuses on a peacekeeping force on ...
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Maura Tierney leaves Parenthood
Tierney will star alongside Frances McDormand and Wooster Group actors Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd and Koosil-ja Hwang, in the production, which focuses on a peacekeeping force on ...
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- 1/11/2010
- by Joyce Eng
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Press Release Film At Redcat Presents Zoe Beloff: Conjuring Specters Mon Apr 27 | 8:30 pm Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5] New York artist Zoe Beloff’s unique and mesmerizing films are philosophical toys: objects with which to think. Her work has especially borne on “phantoms,” on images that are “not there,” and on a precinematic version of the virtual, created by means of a stereoscopic Bolex camera that produces spectral 3-D images. Shadowland Or Light From The Other Side [above], starring Kate Valk of The Wooster Group, locates a link between Victorian spiritualism and the birth of cinema in late-19th century “Ghost Shows,” where actors interacted with magic lantern slides and stereoscopic views. Charming Augustine is an experimental narrative inspired by one of Charcot’s most famous patients at the Salpétrière in turn-of-the-century Paris. It explores connections between photographic documentation of hysteria and the prehistory of narrative film: Augustine captivates the doctors...
- 4/6/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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