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Alana McNair's 'In Spite of Appearance'
Dec.17 - 19, 2004
Theater writer and performer Alana McNair presented a sound/art installation that explores the relationship between the five senses. Inspired by a kooky and whimsical sound installation, this piece told a story in which each sense is personified. This installation explored the complexity of human personality and its self-conscious limitations.
Performance
Ed Bear
Dec.15, 2004
4 days of music, swig, and swill...
featuring: baritone saxophone feedback installation by
ED BEAR: 2000 bouncey balls, speakers, pedals....
WITH: Bonnie Kane's Mambo Mantis
popnono
the flangedconfection
ron lessard
north guinea hills
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Performance
Ed Bear
Dec.14, 2004
4 days of music, swig, and swill...
featuring: baritone saxophone feedback installation by
ED BEAR: 2000 bouncey balls, speakers, pedals....
WITH: junior barnes (stuart bogie from antibalas)
blaise siwulla's sofaR
akron family values (young god records)
dan deacon and height
sandstorm
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Performance
Ed Bear
Dec.13, 2004
4 days of music, swig, and swill...
featuring: baritone saxophone feedback installation by
ED BEAR: 2000 bouncey balls, speakers, pedals....
WITH: blue velvet
COMATOSE NATION: Peter Evans - trumpet, Brandon Seabrook - banjo, Jesse Dulman - tuba, James Ilgenfritz - electric bass, and more
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Maureen Towey’s CROWD
Dec.13 - 16, 2004
Twenty people jammed in a storefront give rush hour commuters a magnified reflection of what it means to be an individual amongst the masses. Inspired by children's choirs, military formations, prayer sequences, urban sidewalks, and fans at European soccer games. Directed by Maureen Towey and featuring a street musician, a tiny puppet stage, and a crowd of actors and dancers in all shapes and sizes. Onlookers can come and go as they please.
Performed as part of the Not For Sale series featuring eight imaginative performance installations to be presented from November 3, 2004 through Dec 19, 2004 in the storefront window of chashama 208 W.27th Street.
Performance
Immediate Medium at The Tank Annex - 208 W.37th
Dec.6 - 11, 2004
This performance art group presents a violent installation with a
little less conversation, a little more action.
FREE
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The TEAM’s "Give Up! Start Over!"
Dec.6 - 11, 2004
Directed by Rachel Chavkin, performed by Jessica Almasy. Give Up! Start Over! is a meditation on celebrity, paranoia, and loneliness in America. A woman is trapped in an enclosed space which shifts from cage to confessional to television. Trapped in a grid of one, she alternately seeks and hides from a grid of 290 million. Comic and desperate, the work weaves together text on reality television and religion with dance, as she delves further into the roots of herself.
Performance
La Superette
Dec.4, 2004
Holiday shopping and gallery hopping team up with musical performances
and interactive gift-wrapping in an event for the whole family. Over 50
artists showcase original, handmade gifts in this event at 208 W.37th St.
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Nora Stephen's TILL YOU DROP
November 30 & Dec.2 - 4, 2004
Choreographer/video artist Nora Stephens and composer Jeff Snyder
create a mosaic of interrupted crescendos, layering textures of sound, images and movement
in the windows of 208 W.37th Street. Part of the Not for Sale series,
Till You Drop is their exploration of consumption as a cultural ideal.
Performance
Thanksgiving Leftover
November 27, 2004
Seven bands in six hours at The Tank Annex at 208 W.37th Street.
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Martine Viale's Objet Sculpturale
November 20 - 22, 2004
Influenced by Butoh, Martine Viale stages a series of "inactions"
in her performance in the windows of 208 W.37th Street. Part of the Not for Sale series.
Performance
Nooks et Crannies
November 18, 2004
A musical performance at The Tank Annex at 208 W.37th Street.
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FREEFALL
November 16 - 19, 2004
Lynn Marie Ruse and Lynn Brown perform FREEFALL, another in the Not for Sale series,
in an environment built from images from the works of Samuel Becket: End Game and Waiting for Godot.
Twice a day in the windows of 208 W.37th St.
www.freefallltd.org
Event
The Tank Annex Housewarming Party
November 14, 2004
An interactive housewarming party thrown by members of The Tank in
celebration of their tenancy at 208 W.37th Street.
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Billy Joel
November 8 - 12, 2004
Daily at 6p, Michael Portnoy presents Billy Joel,
the second in the Not for Sale window series at 208,
accompanied by The Three Trombones (Marisa Terris, Yaaku Tharaka,
and Jason Braunstein). Michael Portnoy (aka XAR) is a New York based
multimedia artist, performer, musician, and director of behavior.
He has presented work extensively in NY in such venues as: P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, The Kitchen, P.S.122,The Judson Church,
White Box, Canada Gallery, ACE Gallery, The Knitting Factory,
chashama, Little Theater, The Grammy Awards at Radio City Music
Hall,As Four fashion shows and the washroom at Schiller's; and
internationally in such venues as Foksal Gallery Foundation (Warsaw),
Kaaitheater (Brussels) and The National Review of Live Art (Glasgow).
He has just opened Session, a new social space in Tribeca
devoted to the exploration of social exchange as an art form.
www.strangergames.com
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Window Looming
October 6 - 21, 2004
"Window Looming" debuts chashama's window performance series,
Not For Sale, a series running at our newest venue, 208 West 37th Street
(between Seventh and Eighth Avenues) from November 3rd – December 19th, 2004.
A rotating cast of two dancer/artists create and disassemble a large fabric structure
in alternating performances daily. Using various materials discarded and donated by
Garment District businesses, they enact the tale of Odysseus' wife Penelope, who,
long awaiting his return from the Trojan War, announced she would re-marry when the
funeral canopy of Laertes was complete. Secretly, she had no intention of finishing her
work, and so what she wove during the day, she unraveled by night.
After an indoor-only viewing of the work, an artist reception with silent auction was
held on Saturday at 7-10 p.m. to benefit RETTOCAMME,
including original artworks by Emma Cotter, Rob Fournier, Roy Germon, Ron Gott,
Nicole Schulman and Michael Reck.
chashama 208 is located at 208 W.37th St. between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Garment District.
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