Keigwin Kaberet is coming up at Symphony Space in early April. We first saw Larry Keigwin dance a beautiful Nijinsky faun in a Mark Dendy piece at Dance Theater Workshop.

Here is a YouTube video from Keigwin + Company.

James and I are going to two dance/theater works soon. They're both people we love and have seen before:

• Ann Liv Young at The Kitchen -- here is the NY Times review and an earlier post on her
• Adrienne Truscott at PS122 -- she is also one half of the fabulous Wau Wau Sisters (pronounced vow vow)

Update

Via culturebot I learn there is a preview video on YouTube of the Adrienne Truscott show.

Idiocracy is one of my favorite films of the last couple of years. Speak Up has a great write-up on the amazing design of the movie. Via Signals vs. Noise.

Given the recent Scooter Libby trial, now seems like a good time to mention a short theater work that James and I saw last month as part of Target Margin's season of plays inspired by classical Greek works. The theme of the play was scapegoats, and the title was "Taking One for the Team". It managed to blend the stories of Iphigenia, Scooter Libby, plus others into a short sharp piece. It was created by the sound artist Michael Kraskin in collaboration with the cast. I loved the final speech of Iphegenia, inspired by a text of Euripides. In it she talks of how her sacrifice, and that of other Greeks, is necessary to show that the Greeks are civilized, and their enemies are barbarians.

Thanks to that production, I discovered the podcast he has been doing with David Terry since late 2005, titled Catalogue of Ships, with the title inspired by Homer's "Iliad". Thanks to the power of Odeo, I'm embedding a few of my favorite episodes so far. I've been listening in order, and I'm only through the first year so far. If you like Robert Ashley or Mikel Rouse, I think you'll like these.

I chose Episode Three for its really beautiful sound design.

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Episode Four tells the story of David Terry in Greece in October 2001, and his attempt to cheer up some Afghan refugees with some song and dance.

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