Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

February 16, 2018 · Individualism

The Burghers of Calais

The Condemned Men of Palo Alto So here’s the shot. Stanford’s quad, that cathedral to optimism and endowments, and right there in the middle: six bronze figures who understood that sometimes the price of collective survival is individual annihilation. Rodin’s Burghers of Calais. Cast number seven, if anyone’s counting. Look at them. 1347, their city […]

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February 12, 2018 · Collusion

Chocolate Heads in The Anderson Collection

Figures in a California Landscape: a dance performance by movement troupe Chocolate Heads inspired by Manuel Neri’s sculptures in The Anderson Collection at Stanford University. This piece is part of a year long Aleta Hayes/Chocolate Heads project exploring the idea of California. Native Californian, Manuel Neri with his interest in the human figure, provoked this deepened […]

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January 26, 2018 · Industries

LINES Ballet at Taube

Alonzo King LINES Ballet hosted an evening of music, dance, and discussion highlighting the company’s upcoming Spring Season world-premiere of SUTRA. Held at the Taube Atrium Theater, Wilsey Opera Center

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January 25, 2018 · Speculation

Your whole life is a rehearsal

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. Judith Malina Look at him, Babatunji is DESTROYING himself in that studio and I mean that as the highest compliment I can give because destruction is the only path to the real shit, not the performance, not opening night where everyone […]

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January 21, 2018 · Engineering

Jasper Ridge

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for […]

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January 20, 2018 · Resistance

Women’s March San Francisco 2018

The streets swelled with bodies and noise and raw electric fury, not the manufactured kind you get from some corporate sponsored spectacle, but the genuine article, the kind that rises from the gut when people realize silence is complicity. San Francisco, Market Street, and the air itself seemed charged with purpose, thick with the understanding […]

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January 15, 2018 · Engineering

Aeschylus Mysians

The Garden Isle. Land of chickens running wild through parking lots, where the roosters crow at three a.m. like they’re announcing the apocalypse, and the trade winds smell of plumeria and possibility. The Mysians. Three lines remain. “Hail, Caïcus and ye streams of Mysia!” That’s the opening. The hook. The ancient Greek equivalent of “Once […]

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