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The Live Arts Festival dares us to go to some new places
It’s not always out of necessity that the Live Arts Festival produces shows in some unusual spaces. In the Other Places programming artists get the opportunity to make work in reaction to their environment and three of those artists have come up with some wild pieces.
You may have seen Lucidity Suitcase International’s hit, Lost Soles in the 2000 Festival, but you’ve never seen it like this. Drive-In Lost Soles (29) has been reconfigured and elevated to new performance levels and literally a higher location. Set atop the Whole Foods Market on South Street, Thaddeus Phillips’ re-tells his story of a tap dancer stranded in Cuba in 1938. But with a drive-in movie size screen, he transforms the rooftop and makes seeing the show anew.
And just when you thought nothing could really be done with that old National Products Building, but high-rise condos, Reliant Projects brings us Black Palace Pink Party (pg 28). Transforming the space into a labyrinth of twisted rooms, Black Palace walks us through an apocalyptic house party with Jayne Mansfield as our hostess. Campy, violent, and twisted in the best possible way, Black Palace Pink Party, puts Rocky Horror to shame. It’s the only show in the Festival that I know of where you get to step over dead bloody bodies to get to the next scene.
Another show that makes you happy to be on the wrong side of the tracks is AdShock (pg 25), the latest Festival fantasia by Brian Sander’s Junk. Sanders has never shied away from spectacle and this journey into the head-games of our media manipulated world takes advantage of his ability to make our heads spin even more. His athletic choreography has wowed Festival audiences for the past five years and for this production, set in The Transit Station on Spring Garden and N. Front Streets you should expect a lot of wildly moving parts, both mechanical and human.
We’re closing in fast on the closing weekend of the Festivals so don’t stop moving. See the work that takes you to places you’ve never been before, both with your beer soaked body and your art-drunk mind. Save your soul…go to the party…and shock yourself.
I dare you!
Double Dog Dare of the day:
Ask for a taste of the soup of the day at Black Palace Pink Party. You might think twice when you see the menu.
Your ex-administrator,
Lee Ann Etzold
It’s not always out of necessity that the Live Arts Festival produces shows in some unusual spaces. In the Other Places programming artists get the opportunity to make work in reaction to their environment and three of those artists have come up with some wild pieces.
You may have seen Lucidity Suitcase International’s hit, Lost Soles in the 2000 Festival, but you’ve never seen it like this. Drive-In Lost Soles (29) has been reconfigured and elevated to new performance levels and literally a higher location. Set atop the Whole Foods Market on South Street, Thaddeus Phillips’ re-tells his story of a tap dancer stranded in Cuba in 1938. But with a drive-in movie size screen, he transforms the rooftop and makes seeing the show anew.
And just when you thought nothing could really be done with that old National Products Building, but high-rise condos, Reliant Projects brings us Black Palace Pink Party (pg 28). Transforming the space into a labyrinth of twisted rooms, Black Palace walks us through an apocalyptic house party with Jayne Mansfield as our hostess. Campy, violent, and twisted in the best possible way, Black Palace Pink Party, puts Rocky Horror to shame. It’s the only show in the Festival that I know of where you get to step over dead bloody bodies to get to the next scene.
Another show that makes you happy to be on the wrong side of the tracks is AdShock (pg 25), the latest Festival fantasia by Brian Sander’s Junk. Sanders has never shied away from spectacle and this journey into the head-games of our media manipulated world takes advantage of his ability to make our heads spin even more. His athletic choreography has wowed Festival audiences for the past five years and for this production, set in The Transit Station on Spring Garden and N. Front Streets you should expect a lot of wildly moving parts, both mechanical and human.
We’re closing in fast on the closing weekend of the Festivals so don’t stop moving. See the work that takes you to places you’ve never been before, both with your beer soaked body and your art-drunk mind. Save your soul…go to the party…and shock yourself.
I dare you!
Double Dog Dare of the day:
Ask for a taste of the soup of the day at Black Palace Pink Party. You might think twice when you see the menu.
Your ex-administrator,
Lee Ann Etzold
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