by Lindsay
Today is the third annual GiveBIG event. Please join OtB for this exciting city-wide day of giving, supporting hundreds of nonprofits, including OtB. Your gift helps support our programs, the artists we present, and helps keep ticket prices low.
You can give today until midnight through our profile on The Seattle Foundation website here: http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/OntheBoards.aspx
Every donation – no matter the size – made to OtB through The Seattle Foundation’s website today will grow even more from an $800,000 stretch pool by The Seattle Foundation and their sponsors. Plus, donors will be chosen at random throughout the day to have an additional $1,000 “Golden Ticket” given to the charity that received their donation.
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by Heidi
I think with a group like Saint Genet, it’s going to be important to have some critically founded ways to consider them and tools with which to distance ourselves or . . . complicate the reactions we have--kind of like a softening of an impact—for which there is a definite potential when viewing a sensational and visceral group such as Saint Genet. Maybe analysis thwarts the guttural reactions they intend an audience to have, but I think the greatest compliment to an artist is to be able to look at a work and attempt to understand it intellectually as well as intuitively. So this is my hope: that this essay begins to examine the roots and intentions of Saint Genet, and also reflects on some reasons why this work might be important and actually very beautiful, exposing us (the audience) to controversial but provocative aesthetics.
There are many interesting entry points into Saint Genet (Theater of the Absurd, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, etc.) but for...
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by Jessica
In addition to Paradisiacal Rites this weekend at OtB, Saint Genet is taking over the NORD Alley in Pioneer Square with their singular vision and aesthetic. Thu-Sun at 1pm you can catch a series of visual art, performance and music-based installations for free. Learn more about it at saintgenet.org!
[Paradisiacal Rites photo by Dan Hawkins]
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by Jessica
If you are planning to attend Saint Genet's Paradisiacal Rites (may 16-19) please be aware that the city is doing some major construction on Mercer Street. Full details are available from seattle.gov, but plan for some heavier traffic.
Good luck and we’ll see you at the show!
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by Heidi
1. Saint Genet keeps it mysterious. Example: a quote by Saint Genet commenting on their upcoming performances for The Stranger’s 2012 Summer AP guide reads,
"On June 17, Saint Genet will ride to victory or death. On June 17, Saint Genet may or may not stage a performance for no audience. The company may or may not live in an apple-storage warehouse. The apple-storage warehouse may or may not be planted with a wheat field." There was also talk of a trench, a mountain, a gaucho, nitrous oxide, local dancer Alan Sutherland walking into the mountain, it collapsing, and a funeral "that lasts till dawn."
So if I was going to read this quote as a metaphor for how it feels to research Saint Genet and/or how it will feel to view them as an audience I would say: on the one hand, this quote made a lasting impression on me (probably because it caused me to simultaneously scoff and fall a little in love) . . . but it is...
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by Jessica
And lose the name of action, originally scheduled for this weekend (May 2-5) will be presented as a special event in OtB's 13/14 Season. Mark your calendars for March 6-9, 2014!
Ticketholders: please see the original blog post for information on your options.
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by Jessica
We've been releasing some of our artistic director's thoughts about each of the artists in the past week, but with the names redacted and the images slightly obscured. See the full thoughts below! And read more about the 13/14 Season.
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by Jessica
And here's our last sneak peek before tomorrow's big reveal.
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