There was a narrative, it emerged in certain passages: with boy meets girl, is confronted by a rival, fights and looses but is nevertheless the winner anyway; but the bigger story of freedom, of beautiful, unrestrained euphoric freedom that in it's-self, reaches to an epiphany of spiritual awakening and expression became the flying carpet ride I took.
In Tobias Wolff’s story “Bullet in the Brain,” a curmudgeonly book critic is shot at point blank range by a bank robber whose linguistic clichés the critic can’t help mocking. The bullet’s physical speed of 900 feet per second, becomes “a pathetically sluggish, glacial pace compared to the synaptic lighting” inside the critic’s skull.
Did you come see the Kidd Pivot show? Did you see their last show here or is this the first time you've witnessed Crystal Pite's choreography? Give us your thoughts on the performance!
10/11 artist Catherine Cabeen recently went to the Walker for their Yves Klein retrospective as part of the research for her upcoming performance, Into the Void.
The NY Times just released their guide to the new season. While much of it is NYC centric, a few OtB performances get called out:
Congrats are in order to OtB/OntheBoards.tv artist Tommy Smith who just snagged a Lark Fellowship.
After making its world premiere here at OtB, "Awesome" took West to Theatre Junction in Calgary last week. Sounds like their inaugural trip went well:
"...of all the shows I have ever read or seen, never has anything been quite like West by “Awesome ”, the last show of Theatre Junction Grand’s 2009/2010 season.
The latest round-up of reviews for the "Awesome" show...
An Enjoyable Hard-Shelled Crab on the Teen Tix blog
West at On the Boards is kinda sorta Awesome on Seattle Gay Scene
West's Wanderings are Only a Little Less Than "Awesome" on the SunBreak
Michael Upchurch at Seattle Times reviews West:
In "West," their epic-scale and near-epic-length new show at On the Boards, the video wizardry of "Awesome" (always in quotes) has taken a quantum leap. The white silhouette of a galloping horse ripples across a rugged backdrop. A night-sky is unveiled inside a packing crate. Trickles of blood drip down from where you least expect them.
These fancy flourishes are all part of a dreamlike meditation on the myths and transformations of the American West that's both ambitious and ambiguous.
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