November 17, 2018 · Engineering
At 4:45pm on November 16th, 2018, a cold, gray, 54 degree afternoon, we staged the two remaining fragments of Aeschylus‘ Danaids at the Pulgas Water Temple in San Mateo County. Let me be clear about what we’re dealing with here: Aeschylus’s Danaids trilogy is mostly gone. Lost to time, fire, neglect, pick your poison. What […]
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November 16, 2018 · Resistance
Look at this beautiful goddamn relic. A payphone. At a boat launch in Palo Alto, ground zero for the tech apocalypse that murdered these things. There’s something almost obscene about it standing there, isn’t there? This monument to a slower, dumber, better world. Back when “faith backed by dollars” meant stringing copper wire across America […]
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November 3, 2018 · FalseArt
The great ones don’t teach you a damn thing. Not directly. They just sit there in the tenth row and call out the truth until you stop flinching. Carl Weber sat in that tenth row for Brecht. He sat in it for Kushner. He sat in it for me. The man watched the most radical […]
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October 29, 2018 · Industries
The Planetary Dance by Anna Halprin in 1980 was created as a call to enact a positive myth in dance. “The Planetary Dance is a dance that transcends cultural and temporal barriers, a dance that speaks to the community that makes it, and a dance that addresses contemporary issues as they are experienced by all […]
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October 29, 2018 · Speculation
Our culture is in the throes of crisis: I have a vision of dance working in the service of healing. I invite you to join me in this quest. Anna Halprin I caught something most people can’t see even when they’re staring right at it. Not the performance, fuck the performance, anyone with a decent […]
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October 28, 2018 · FalseArt
Picture this: Walter fucking Cronkite, the most trusted voice in American living rooms, on New Year‘s Eve 1965, serving up Piero Heliczer’s Venus in Furs with the Velvet Underground grinding through Heroin while Heliczer honks away on saxophone like some deranged angel. On CBS. On network television. Before the ball drops. This wasn’t some slick […]
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October 23, 2018 · Engineering
San Jose. Adobe headquarters. Glass and steel rising from the valley floor like some techno optimist’s Burning Man epiphany. I get it, these places aren’t designed for humans, not really. They’re designed for productivity, for synergy, for whatever Stanford or Harvard MBA horseshit makes shareholders tingle. But shit, inside these towers, people are actually making […]
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