from dangerous minds. um. that’s some awesome music video choreography.
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we are the world
Monday, August 9th, 2010
comme toujours here i stand
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Comme Toujours Here I Stand at The Kitchen from Big Dance Theater on Vimeo.
i’m performing with big dance theater in our new piece, comme toujours here i stand opening tonight at the kitchen. and would love for you to come!
the piece is based on agnes varda’s new wave film, cleo from 5 to 7, and uses some awesome / interesting / gorgeous use of video (by jeff larson), dance, music (sung by me in french!) and awesome wallpaper. purchase tickets here. it’s only $15!
the above trailer was made by claudia tanney, with music by kotchy.
Comme Toujours Here I Stand at The Kitchen from Big Dance Theater on Vimeo.
i’m performing with big dance theater in our new piece, comme toujours here i stand opening tonight at the kitchen. and would love for you to come!
the piece is based on agnes varda’s new wave film, cleo from 5 to 7, and uses some awesome / interesting / gorgeous use of video (by jeff larson), dance, music (sung by me in french!) and awesome wallpaper. purchase tickets here. it’s only $15!
the above trailer was made by claudia tanney, with music by kotchy.
where’s chris? [dancing in lyon]
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
my friend cécile made some videos of her dancing crazily in her apartment in paris, so i decided to make this video for her in my friend alexandre’s apartment. we were sitting in the kitchen with some friends when someone put on a kim wilde vinyl and i decided at that moment that i would dance to this song the next day. and so it was…
my friend cécile made some videos of her dancing crazily in her apartment in paris, so i decided to make this video for her in my friend alexandre’s apartment. we were sitting in the kitchen with some friends when someone put on a kim wilde vinyl and i decided at that moment that i would dance to this song the next day. and so it was…
where’s chris? [ça tchatche #2 closing party, lyon]
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
so right now i’m sitting in a bunk bed in a hostel in madrid, catching up on various internet correspondences and design work, and i figured i’d let you all in on the kind of cri-zazy party we had the other night at the closing of les subsistances’ ça tchatche #2 festival.
for more ridiculous pics like the above of the fabulous miss heather christian, checkout the galleries i just uploaded on facebook :
Ça Tchatche #2 PARTY - 1 of 3!
Ça Tchatche #2 PARTY - 2 of 3!
Ça Tchatche #2 PARTY - 3 of 3!
some other updates :
big dance theater got a smashing review in Le Monde, which is the biggest newspaper in france. it basically said that we were the cream of the crop so to speak at last week’s festival in Lyon. we also got the above huge color photo in the printed version of the story - apparently a huge deal for theater/dance in france!
read the full article (in french).
and here we have it. two days later. you should see the other guy.
this black eye is the result of me drinking a shit load of free champagne and then face-planting it into a really old french pebble wall. awesome.
it doesn’t hurt as much as it looks and in a few days it’ll just be super sexy.
last night, jess and i saw david byrne play in madrid and hung out afterwards. everyone said my eye made me look sexy. DB says hi, by the way.
soon i will finally leave the mod confines of my hostel and explore esta ciudad.
more to come, folks.
xoc
so right now i’m sitting in a bunk bed in a hostel in madrid, catching up on various internet correspondences and design work, and i figured i’d let you all in on the kind of cri-zazy party we had the other night at the closing of les subsistances’ ça tchatche #2 festival.
for more ridiculous pics like the above of the fabulous miss heather christian, checkout the galleries i just uploaded on facebook :
Ça Tchatche #2 PARTY - 1 of 3!
Ça Tchatche #2 PARTY - 2 of 3!
Ça Tchatche #2 PARTY - 3 of 3!
some other updates :
big dance theater got a smashing review in Le Monde, which is the biggest newspaper in france. it basically said that we were the cream of the crop so to speak at last week’s festival in Lyon. we also got the above huge color photo in the printed version of the story - apparently a huge deal for theater/dance in france!
read the full article (in french).
and here we have it. two days later. you should see the other guy.
this black eye is the result of me drinking a shit load of free champagne and then face-planting it into a really old french pebble wall. awesome.
it doesn’t hurt as much as it looks and in a few days it’ll just be super sexy.
last night, jess and i saw david byrne play in madrid and hung out afterwards. everyone said my eye made me look sexy. DB says hi, by the way.
soon i will finally leave the mod confines of my hostel and explore esta ciudad.
more to come, folks.
xoc
gaga / ancient roman amphitheater / basilique
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
i’ve officially been in lyon for a week. we’ve actually gotten to see a lot of the city, even though we’ve been working most of the time on our dance-theater piece. it’s been lovely. we’ve made family meals, explored the old city (vieux lyon), and tonight we got to see batsheva dance company in this :
this is apparently the oldest roman amphitheater in france. katie and i explored it on sunday and i snapped this photo. tonight we made a picnic hoping to be able to eat in the theater before the show, but we weren’t allowed to bring in knives and bottles so we ended up eating in a nearby park. anyway.
the show was amazing. i actually took a class with ohad naharin, the artistic director, at cedar lake last year. his ‘methodology’ is called ‘gaga.’ there were ‘gaga dancer’ classes and ‘gaga people’ classes. i took the one for people. it rocked. we were boiling spaghetti on the floor.
his company consists of the best dancers i’ve ever seen. i’ve seen a lot of dance. and i’ve seen some really amazing technicians, and some people with incredible style or execution, but never have i seen a combination of technique and execution like this. each company member is classically trained (it seems) but is also inundated with naharin’s teachings for years. witnessing this synthesis is a treat.
their facility and intention of movement are flawless, phenomenal. and there is also this layer of elasticity and abandon over their impeccable technique that makes it truly brilliant to behold. this company was recently at BAM, but i missed them. i guess i just had to wait see them in an ancient roman amphitheater instead. shucks.
the audience was extremely enthralled with the performance (the piece was called ‘decadance’ btw) and they stood and threw their seat cushions on to the stage at the end - missing mostly, and hitting innocent low level bystanders.
in a totally unrelated - except in a geographical way - here is a photo of the inside of notre dame du fourviere basilique - a big honkin’ church on a hill that was built in the early 1900s right next to the amphitheater :
you could buy these candles to light and place in a crazy candelabra for 1 to 3 euro. depending on how much you care about the person you’re praying for, you spend more or less! :
here’s me and katie being tourists overlooking lyon :
we had to walk up an insane amount of steps to get to this place so forgive if i look a little exhausted.
also, the night before kourtney and i went out on the (gay) town, and with the help of her franglais (that’s english and french) we got into some pretty euro-fun (read: lame) places. we made the best of it, though (read: got drunk). not too many fun stories about that. except when kourtney used this bathroom at ‘PINKS’ after some drunk french chick puked all over it, then had to explain to the rest of the people on line that it wasn’t her. genius.
we danced to the worst michael jackson remixes ever.
i’ve officially been in lyon for a week. we’ve actually gotten to see a lot of the city, even though we’ve been working most of the time on our dance-theater piece. it’s been lovely. we’ve made family meals, explored the old city (vieux lyon), and tonight we got to see batsheva dance company in this :
this is apparently the oldest roman amphitheater in france. katie and i explored it on sunday and i snapped this photo. tonight we made a picnic hoping to be able to eat in the theater before the show, but we weren’t allowed to bring in knives and bottles so we ended up eating in a nearby park. anyway.
the show was amazing. i actually took a class with ohad naharin, the artistic director, at cedar lake last year. his ‘methodology’ is called ‘gaga.’ there were ‘gaga dancer’ classes and ‘gaga people’ classes. i took the one for people. it rocked. we were boiling spaghetti on the floor.
his company consists of the best dancers i’ve ever seen. i’ve seen a lot of dance. and i’ve seen some really amazing technicians, and some people with incredible style or execution, but never have i seen a combination of technique and execution like this. each company member is classically trained (it seems) but is also inundated with naharin’s teachings for years. witnessing this synthesis is a treat.
their facility and intention of movement are flawless, phenomenal. and there is also this layer of elasticity and abandon over their impeccable technique that makes it truly brilliant to behold. this company was recently at BAM, but i missed them. i guess i just had to wait see them in an ancient roman amphitheater instead. shucks.
the audience was extremely enthralled with the performance (the piece was called ‘decadance’ btw) and they stood and threw their seat cushions on to the stage at the end - missing mostly, and hitting innocent low level bystanders.
in a totally unrelated - except in a geographical way - here is a photo of the inside of notre dame du fourviere basilique - a big honkin’ church on a hill that was built in the early 1900s right next to the amphitheater :
you could buy these candles to light and place in a crazy candelabra for 1 to 3 euro. depending on how much you care about the person you’re praying for, you spend more or less! :
here’s me and katie being tourists overlooking lyon :
we had to walk up an insane amount of steps to get to this place so forgive if i look a little exhausted.
also, the night before kourtney and i went out on the (gay) town, and with the help of her franglais (that’s english and french) we got into some pretty euro-fun (read: lame) places. we made the best of it, though (read: got drunk). not too many fun stories about that. except when kourtney used this bathroom at ‘PINKS’ after some drunk french chick puked all over it, then had to explain to the rest of the people on line that it wasn’t her. genius.
we danced to the worst michael jackson remixes ever.
come see dance today for free
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
if you happen to read this before 5pm (maybe 4:30pm depending on where you live) today, sunday june 8, and you’ve got nothing to do, then come on down to times square for the third annual dancing at the crossrads.
this is an awesome event that i help put on as part of my job at dancers responding to AIDS. it is produced with the times square alliance - the people responsible for new year’s eve - and is basically a huge free dance blowout showcasing the diversity of dance in new york city at the ‘crossroads of the world’ - times square.
it’s at 5pm, and lasts about 2 hours. it takes place on military island, which is between 43rd and 44th streets in times square. you can’t miss it. it’s a giant stage in the middle of the street. and it’s FREE.
companies performing include : martha graham dance company, david dorfman dance, pilobolus, nai-ni chen dance company, buglisi dance theatre, and keigwin + company. also making a special guest appearance performing a number from their show : the cast of broadway’s crybaby.
so come on over to the square if you’re down for seeing some awesome free dance. but bring some cash to make a donation to our DRA bucket brigade!
thanks, and have a lovely sunday.
if you happen to read this before 5pm (maybe 4:30pm depending on where you live) today, sunday june 8, and you’ve got nothing to do, then come on down to times square for the third annual dancing at the crossrads.
this is an awesome event that i help put on as part of my job at dancers responding to AIDS. it is produced with the times square alliance - the people responsible for new year’s eve - and is basically a huge free dance blowout showcasing the diversity of dance in new york city at the ‘crossroads of the world’ - times square.
it’s at 5pm, and lasts about 2 hours. it takes place on military island, which is between 43rd and 44th streets in times square. you can’t miss it. it’s a giant stage in the middle of the street. and it’s FREE.
companies performing include : martha graham dance company, david dorfman dance, pilobolus, nai-ni chen dance company, buglisi dance theatre, and keigwin + company. also making a special guest appearance performing a number from their show : the cast of broadway’s crybaby.
so come on over to the square if you’re down for seeing some awesome free dance. but bring some cash to make a donation to our DRA bucket brigade!
thanks, and have a lovely sunday.