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Category Archives: dance

I Smell Breakthrough

The incredible Gaslamp Killer will release his solo album Breakthrough soon enough (next month), and for those of you who don’t smell trap in his self-described “third-eye music”, there’s also a chance to catch the mighty man live (here in town, or elsewhere).

BETWEEN SEAPUNK AND HIP-HOP

Azealia Banks‘ shambolic, but splendid mixtape Fantasea:

PROSTHESES

Absurdity, weird sounds, prostheses and hung bodies. Watching the perfect technique of the perfect/androgynous bodies of the cyborg dancers/creatures of The Company Marie Chouinard is a pleasure. Dismantled pieces become a body part of the dancer, allowing h(er/im) to deconstruct the body in the strangest ways.
“The work’s movements plumb the insoluble mystery of the body, [...]

GODARD, DARLING?

‘You seem to be having dark thoughts‘ these days. Why not learning the moves of the legendary dance scene from the movie ‘Band of Outsiders‘ by Godard or going wild in Miss Golightly style? Do something interesting this weekend: dress up and dance in 60s!

Mono says…

… rumor has it a certain Sufi’s currently on tour in Europe (hitting Germany in a few days) – and we’re pretty sure every single night of it’s gonna be a killer.

ALL IN THE MIX

The ultimate soundtrack for the weekend: Hieroglyphic Being’s FACT Mix. Almost three hours of pure genius.

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON

Here is the legendary filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961) who worked with Duchamp back in 1943. Besides her stunning surrealist films, this astonishing woman was also a theorist, choreographer and a writer.

FUTURE SELF

Made is a curious and pretty bling – as in very white – space on the ninth floor of Haus des Reisens on Alexanderplatz. Their focus is to bring people from different media together and work out a new collaboration, so you never really know what to expect, which I suppose is the idea. It [...]

RESHAPED AND REMODELED

Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer are collaborating once again: the duo, who last year released a double-album of re-worked material from the ECM catalogue, are now re-shaping the legendary track Zug by Conrad Schnitzler. The 12″ includes a 20-minute mix of Aktion, on the A-side and 15-minute Sorgenkind mix on the flip. The collection will [...]

TALDANS IN JUDSON CHURCH

A performance by the Turkish contemporary dance company Taldans in Judson Church New York City where the legendary Judson Dance Theater was performing in 1960s.