Two out of two local magazines agree that the NW New Works Festival is a thing to check out:
Steve Wiecking at Seattle Met recommends a couple NW New Works artists in his weekend round up.
Seattle Mag calls the festival "overwhelmingly good stuff" as pasrt of their "Weekend Must List."
Here's a couple of the reviews that have rolled in so far:
"God Save the Queen" - Brendan Kiley on Slog:
"Shmooquan's heart beats pure entertainment—glittery, gaudy, and shameless."
Tanja Liedtke's construct received 2 major accolades at the Australian Dance Awards last weekend - for outstanding acheivements in choreography and in independent dance. Kristina Chan was also awarded the prize for best female dancer.
Recently Brendan Kiley wrote another piece in The Stranger lamenting how Seattle doesn’t have a festival like Portland’s TBA or Austin’s Fusebox. I love TBA, but let’s be fair. TBA tries to do in two weeks what On The Boards does over an entire season. It’s impressive that last year TBA had Jerome Bel and Tim Etchells (two of my favrav artist/thinkers), but this year OtB had Jan Faber, Marie Chouinard and Tanja Liedtke doing full-scale productions—one of my favorite OtB seasons to date.
Often when I see a dance concert, there is one dance company presenting, and I can fully grapple with and give value to questions that arise, resonations, and beauty recognized. New ideas are introduced, but always within the same framework (save the rare deus ex machina.) For the NWNW Festival Mainstage, four artists are given a limited amount of time to present.
Grace Carter + Joe Von Appen | The Future Series
This video was only available for the duration of the 2009 NWNW Festival.
Adam Sekuler | Merely Mouthpiece 4
This video was only available for the duration of the 2009 NWNW Festival.
ilvs strauss | Bertrude and Ernesto, Episode 1
This video was only available for the duration of the 2009 NWNW Festival.
Click on an artist's name below to hear an audio interview [mp3]
Studio Theater Showcase | Jun 5 at 8pm & Jun 6 - 7 at 5pm
Byron Au Yong – Music (Seattle)
Helsinki Syndrome – Performance Art (Seattle)
Umami Performance – Dance (Seattle)
Some of you may have heard about this, which will be happening in front of OtB this Friday.
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