City Bell, Argentina — "That’s what freedom’s all about; learnin’ somethin’ then throwin’ it away." Rahsaan Roland Kirk One afternoon, about two years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with a view of a strange, new city, listening to a piece on NPR about dreams and art. It was a cold day and […]
POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
BECKETT AND MORGAN – TWO PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM It may be that some rough beast will slouch again toward Bethlehem. It may be that some natural cataclysm, or extraterrestrial intelligence will shock the Earth into some sane planetary awareness of its destiny. I have no prophecy in me, only some slight […]
PETER BROOK AND HIS INDIA
Motto: Le théâtre est un art dont les grands achetypes existentiales doivent être mis en discussion. Je croix dans un théâtre qui est capable a perturber l’équilibre quotidien au bout de renvoyer l’être humain dans un équilibre de rapports avec TOUT : la vie et la mort, la tradition et l’universel. (Aureliu Manea, Les énergies du […]
ROBERT WILSON’S THEATRE
L’acteur est son corps dans la mise en scène de Robert Wilson Je voudrais commencer cette analyse à partir d’un sentiment d’étrangeté que j’aie ressenti, après avoir quitte le Théâtre de L’Odéon du Paris, ou j’ai vu mon troisième spectacle (les premiers deux, Deafman Glance et Black Rider, sur des vidéocassettes) mis en scène par […]
The Public Art of San Francisco
So which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a reclaimed former industrial zone. The fact is that since the 1930’s, murals have […]
The Birthday Roda
La Plata, Argentina — A light on in the sky, the moon, glows defiantly on the steps of the Humanidades branch of the University of La Plata. The steps are littered with short slips of paper, advertisements and such for various student services, hair cuts, cell phones. It is winter in August, the air dry […]