June 10th, 2008
The Society for Disability Studies &
New York University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Presents an ALLIGER ARTS Production
OUTSIDE THE BOX/
PERFORMING DISABILITY
An International Cabaret Showcasing Music, Spoken Word, Dance, & Drama
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
June 20, Friday - 8 PM
Eisner and Lubin Auditorium
NYU Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
between LaGuardia Place and Thompson Street
New York, NY 10012
Outside the Box/Performing Disability presents an international array of provocative, exotic, and cutting edge performers.
There has been a seismic shift in disability arts over the last decade, both in form and content. Using unique configurations of body, voice, and mind, disabled artists are constructing new art and new art forms.
Mat Fraser, internationally known actor and playwright (Sealboy: Freak, Thalidomide: The Musical) will emcee the event. Fraser was most recently featured as Puck in The Kaos Dream, a revisioning of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which toured Britain last Fall, where it enjoyed rave reviews, sell out audiences, complaints from Catholic School teachers, and standing ovations.
Featuring:
- Mat Fraser, MC — Actor, writer, cabaret performer, musician, occassional stripper
- Excerpts from GIMP, Choreographed by Heidi Latsky — featuring dancersJeffery Freeze, Lawrence Carter-Long & Catherine Long
- Lezlie Frye, Spoken Word
- Four Wheel City, Krip Hop (Rap)
- Honi Harlow & Mystique presents Bawdville, Deaf Burlesque
- Nancy Ostrovsky, Performance Painting
- Theatrical Readings - staged by Carrie Sandahl & Victoria Lewis
featuring Nikaury Acosta, Christine Bruno*, Jason Fisher*, Pedro Hidalgo*, Anita Hollander*, Neil Marcus, Gregg Mozgala* and Dathan B. Williams*
*appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
$18 tickets available online and at the door
Go to http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2008/events/nyu to purchase tickets
For accommodations or other information, contact Howard Hines @ 646-344-7261
Event presented with Sign Language Interpretation, Audio Description and Open Captioning. Space is Wheelchair Accessible. Assistive Listening Devices, Large Print & Braille Programs Available Upon Request.
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June 2nd, 2008
WORK by Bill Shannon
A solo exhibition. 15 May – 18 June 2008
138 Mulberry Street, 6th Floor
NYC 10013
12-7 Tues-Sat | 12-5 Sunday
212.505.2075
www.douzandmille.com/work
Bill Shannon takes on disability once again, this time at a gallery exhibition featuring drawings, sculpture, video installation and multi-media art. Many of us know Shannon primarily as performance artist and dancer, but I am eager to see this new presentation of his ideas.
I recall one piece – a video of his street performance where the camera “watches” bystanders’ impulse to help. Shannon moves through space with two crutches and often a skateboard. People who see him sliding down banisters, propelled by crutches, or walking down steps in a loose rag-doll walk, seem to be both captivated and unsettled by the scene/spectacle. Shannon sometimes goes along with unsolicited offers of help, and lets strangers “help” him get down stairs he was navigating solo.
Note that dates of exhibition include the opening date of the Society for Disability Studies Conference in NYC. In a phone call to the gallery, I was told that there is an elevator on the street, and wheelchair access is not a problem. I will try to see this in the next week or so and report back.
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May 1st, 2008
I am perpetually invigorated when I attend disTHIS screenings. Check out their upcoming one, May 7th, and then on June 18th - those of you coming to SDS have your chance! disTHIS presents films about disability, but more pointedly about authenticity, democracy, and social transformation. The selection process is rigorous and astute, which most often finds films with compelling personal stories that speak to larger stories and themes.
The New York film world, for all its sophistication, is hopelessly naive when it comes to disability. disTHIS is a corrective to that innocence and ignorance, but it is much more than a remedial endeavor. The films that curator Lawrence Carter Long puts forth, along with guests speakers and post-screening discussion, offer a necessary and vital perspective on the arts.
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April 17th, 2008
Wish I could attend this exciting conference. There is a conversation brewing that is underscoring the inevitability of disability taking center stage.
DANCE UNDER CONSTRUCTION 2008 The 10th annual Dance Studies Conference
“Willing and Able: Re-Figuring Dance, Performance, and Disability”
Incorporating perspectives on dance from the visual arts, geography,
architecture, and medical studies, this inter-campus graduate student
conference examines how particular framings of the body define
“ability” in dance and movement.
All talks, panels, workshops, etc. are free and open to the public. See
information below on how to purchase tickets for the evening dance
performances on April 25 & 26.
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/theater/CurrentSeason/duc.html
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