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Butoh has become a global art form, which attracts students from all walks of life. Dancers, actors, adult beginners, visual artists, dance therapists, psychotherapists, environmental scientists come to take Butoh classes and workshops. Some students are interested in the theatrical aspect of Butoh, some in the healing and transformational potential it holds for them. Butoh … Continued
Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project are pleased to celebrate Love Among the Ruins with a culminating performance by two masterful performers: John Kelly and Joseph Keckler. On October 7 at 7pm, Kelly performs excerpts from Time No Line, a solo performance work presented as a live memoir. Keckler will perform three … Continued
Craig Highberger Published on Dec 1, 2007 The complete “Lefty” scene from my 1974 documentary of Jackie Curtis’ fabulous hit play “Glamour Glory & Gold” at the Fortune Theatre. The wonderful actor Andrew Amic-Angelo plays Lefty! Fifty years ago, in 1967, the Off-Off-Broadway classic Glamour, Glory and Gold (The Life & Legend of Nola … Continued
Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project & La Mama are thrilled to welcome Chris Tanner to Extra Place! A famous alley if there ever was one, this little enclave was home to the rear entrance of CBGBs and many legendary band photos. “Butterflies are Free” will have a formal opening celebration soon… so stay tuned … Continued
I hate to begin with the big D—death—but there it is. My co-curator Bill Stelling’s brilliant title for the exhibition, taken from Robert Browning’s poem “Love Among the Ruins”, aptly describes the main themes—love and mortality—that were the impetus for this show. As I lost so many friends so suddenly and unexpectedly in … Continued
The Full Moon Show is an ongoing series of performances going on every 28 days since the early 1970s. It is also the invention seminal performance artist and Alien Comic Tom Murrin… Sort of. This is the way I heard Tom tell it during a Full Moon Show at Dixon Place, but I have … Continued
As new generations rediscover New York in the late 80s, in his essay Bill Stelling, gallery director of 56 Bleecker Gallery and co-curator of Love Among the Ruins, writes about the gallery and the era of AIDS with truthfulness and clarity. Art Lives Forever Love Among the Ruins is a memoir written on the walls of … Continued
Howl Happening features a new writer each month for the #HowlWrites series. Today we are excited to present Bob Holman’s “Grandly and Centrally”. “Grandly and Centrally” was commissioned by the MTA for a centennial reading at Grand Central station. Bob Holman is a native New Yorker from Kentucky currently living over the Bowery Poetry Club, … Continued
This year Howl Arts marched in Pride for the very first time! We were joined by the Lower East Side’s finest. Videos from the march can be found below… Posted by Howl Happening on Sunday, June 25, 2017 Scooter LaForge, who designed the Howl! float, getting a boost from our Gallery Director Ted Riederer Posted … Continued
The Guitarist By Catherine Texier He asked for a picture of her the day before Christmas. Which he didn’t observe. Later it occurred to her – raised the perfect Catholic girl, dressed in blue as an infant in honor of the Virgin Mary, mass every Sunday, confession every week, confirmation, first communion, patent leather … Continued