We're celebrating Halloween at OtB this Sunday with a special Halloween edition of 12 Minutes Max. Check it out:
"...featuring a costume contest on Sun, Oct 31. The winner, chosen by the audience, will take home tickets to an upcoming OtB performance and will be entered to win the opportunity to guest curate the April edition of 12MM. And of course there will be candy."
If you're considering applying for the 2011 NW New Works Festival, make sure to either postmark your application or drop it off at the OtB offices (no later than 5:30pm) this Friday, Oct 29.
For more info and the application, check out the NW New Works Festival page.
First up is Ginny Ruffner who recently opened a show at the Bellevue Art Museum. Read the Sunday feature on her: "Ginny Ruffner's art blooms at Bellevue Arts Museum and on film"
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! tickets are now available for purchase! We also just released the list of which artists will be featured each of the first 3 nights:
OtB's Lane Czaplinski contributed to the soon-to-be launched new edition of Frakcija, a performing arts magazine that was established in 1996 by a group of dramaturgs, theatre theoreticians, critics and artists based in Zagreb.
"Pat Graney's "Faith Triptych" Fills Every Seat at On the Boards" - The SunBreak
The Sunday performance of Pat Graney Co's Faith Triptych is SOLD OUT. The waiting list is also full. We will have a 2nd waiting list you can sign up for (in person, cash only) at our upstairs lobby box office beginning at 6:30pm. But the chances are slim for the 2nd waiting list.
All performances of Pat Graney Co.'s Faith Triptych are SOLD OUT.
In the late ’70’s/early ‘80’s something was happening in this Pacific Northwest outpost. Bill Gates and Paul Allen figured out DOS. Starbucks started selling espresso. Nirvana released their first recording. On the Boards opened its doors. And Pat Graney started showing dances.
5:30 a.m. Not long ago, I was immersed in some epic dreams. There are too many images to recall. In the first dream, Faith, we are in our long past. Sorrow. Low and slow we contract and move through our suffering, changing our place, but repeat these lessons until we surrender. Again. It is
Few theater experiences can enthrall a viewer in the digital age for over three hours. Graney's Faith Triptych is worth the commitment of a long evening.
Did you come see Pat Graney Company's Faith Triptych? Leave a comment and let us know what you thought of the show!
UPDATE - 10/21
The Thursday, Friday, and Saturday performances of Pat Graney Co.'s Faith Triptych are SOLD OUT. Tickets are still available for Sunday.
...that you ought to check out Pat Graney:
"Her brain is kin to Pina Bausch; her eyes to Caravaggio."
-"Soft Power: Pat Graney's Faith Triptych, a Homegrown Dance Masterpiece" - Brendan Kiley, The Stranger
Marcie Sillman of KUOW recently interview Pat for On the Boards.
The Friday night of Pat Graney Company's Faith Triptych is sold out. Check the other nights for availability!
Hump will be happening at OtB in a few short weeks and word on the street is that there is a frenzy for tickets. Head to thestranger.com if you're looking to get set up. Unfortunately, tickets are not being handled by OtB.
Michael Upchurch at the Seattle Times wrote a great preview of Faith Triptych in yesterday's Sunday edition. Check it out and get some more insight into this trio of pieces and the Pat Graney Company.
Pat Graney wil be joining Amy O'Neal, Charles Mudede, Peter Boal, DJ Spooky and others next Satuday as part of one of City Art Festival's Fireside Chats. Head to the Sorrento on Oct 23 at noon about art and theft in dance and music.
Did you hear from the Seattle Times that OtB has received a capital grant from the Kresge Foundation? [Scroll down for the OtB news]
Keeping the Faith is Pat’s 15+ year educational program that the NY Times once called “one of the nation’s most innovative programs for inmates.” It includes both The Prison Project and
Ralph Lemon has been touring How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? for a few weeks now, including stops at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the
TONIGHT | 6 – 8pm | Mainstage Lobby -
This just in from 10/11 artist Paul Budraitis:
1. Pat has been creating work in Seattle for nearly 30 years. From her first piece in 1982 up until now, she has been a mainstay of the local dance scene and has toured widely (the original tours of Faith, Sleep and Tattoo took Pat and company everywhere from NYC to Germany to Chile).
Artists, galleries and museums are beginning to tackle the question of how to archive and own performance art, work which is often without a final object.
When Pat Graney created Faith in 1991, she referenced a series of Caravaggio's paintings. Check out some of the images after the jump and see if you can spot how these are quoted in Faith, the first part of Faith Triptych.
OtB's season opener offers beauty, world-renowned performers, and loss of hearing
-Seattle Examiner
…Running rabbits can symbolize a waking life situation requiring a hare's agility. Such a dream may also be a communication that one needs to stop using the mind as a tool for over-analyzing a situation and begin using it as a means to productively process intuitive information.
Everything Christian Rizzo does on stage is deliberate. Even if perhaps he chooses to pick up candles in a different order each night (which I don't know for certain, but want to find out), he would treat each moment with a formalized tenderness. The first time I saw Rizzo was in 2006 at On the Boards. I knew nothing about him then and just showed up wide open
If you are reading this blog entry, you are most likely engaged enough with the dance scene in Seattle that you read some of the deluge of articles about Christian Rizzo both as an enigma as well as the giddy and heartfelt reviews of his recent performances in NYC. Last night while I was deeply enjoying his opening night performance at On the Boards, I wondered “What could I possibly say
Alice Kaderlan reviewed the performance in the latest post on her blog: "Sturm and Drang but Signifying What?" It starts out:
"From the moment the lights come up on Christian Rizzo's new work, b.c, janvier 1545, fontainebleau, you know you're in the hands of an accomplished visual artist."
Why is Brendan Kiley proclaiming "Holy Mercy!" in the title of his post on Christian Rizzo? Click through to the Slog to find out.
I saw the Jesse Bernstein doc at the Moore and will take heart in his words, "Just do your job." I was worried i wouldn't like it. There was a lot of press, a lot to read, it's from France... I heard "highly stylized and gestural" and I thought, "Oh no not a gesture dance," even though i like making them myself.
Here's some of the comments I've received this morning about b.c, janvier 1545, fontainebleau.:
I made a conscious choice not to read anything before going to the opening night of Christian Rizzo. I wanted to see how the experience would be without references.
Christian is a dialogue starter (documented here) and we'd love to hear what you think.
If you saw the show, what did you think of the use of movement, sound, lights and sculpture? And how about that bunny mask?
Put your thoughts in the comments!
Here's what's been published around the interwebs this morning about Christian Rizzo:
Here's a quick roundup of the activities that are happening this weekend around b.c, janvier 1545, fontainebleau.:
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Q&A post-show - Hear Christian speak about the performance and respond to any questions you may have. Check out this interview with Amy O'Neal to hear how charming he is.
"Christian Rizzo gives people fits. Last week, an argument erupted in a Seattle restaurant at the mere mention of his name. "Oh my God, he's the worst!" one of the arguers shouted, going on to describe Rizzo as the epitome of vapid, pretentious, navel-gazing performance art. Another argued that Rizzo's performance is a ritual, a type of secular sacrament, slow but transcendent.
Jeremy Barker of The SunBreak had the chance to sit down with Christian Rizzo when he was in NYC performing at The Kitchen.
One of OtB's colleagues received this note from Tanya Marquardt, a Vancouver BC based dancer/choreographer, after she had just finished watching Christian Rizzo's b.c, janvier 1545, fontainebleau.. in NYC. Read on for her comments about the performance.
Culturebot, the NYC-based online magazine covering all things contemporary art, reviews Christian Rizzo's b.c, janvier 1545. fontainebleau.:
Subscriber Matthew Echert posted the above picture to facebook this morning with the following caption:
"I love getting my On the Boards subscription in the mail! It's about as tall as I am and almost as awesome."
Christian Rizzo arrived in the US for his NYC performance at The Kitchen earlier this week and previews have been starting to appear on both coasts. Here's what we've seen so far:
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