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Kate Watson-Wallace's "Store' at Live Arts Festival
A gospel for consumers
Kate Watson-Wallace's “anonymous bodies” troupe brought its audience to an abandoned Rite-Aid pharmacy, now transformed into a set for a shopping network's infomercial. The choreographed tight, manic rhythmic dancing contrasted tellingly with the surrounding consumer chaos.
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"Urban Scuba' at Live Arts/Fringe Festival
Urban survival test, in a swimming pool
In an abandoned Center City swimming pool, Brian Sanders's visual assortment of dance theater magic brought the kind of performance energy to the Gershman Y that's been missing there since its salad days in the '60s.
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Concerts to watch in 2009-10
Music without orchestras: My picks for the coming season
Dan Coren, liberated from his obligations to orchestral music for the first time in years, previews a sumptuous season of chamber music, jazz, and contemporary music.
Mike Daisey's "How Theater Failed America'
Is there an economist in the house?
In a 100-minute rant, Mike Daisey purports to expose the economic forces destroying American theater. He succeeds in demonstrating only that actors know nothing about economics.
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Carlo Russo still lifes at F.A.N. Gallery
The elegance of simplicity
Carlo Russo's still life paintings exude a cool elegance that's well worth experiencing. He gets more mileage out of simple objects than any painter I've seen.
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The dawn of rock 'n' roll (a memoir)
The great adolescent upheaval: A rock 'n' roll memoir (c.1955)
When my adolescent buddies and I embraced rock ‘n' roll in the mid-‘50s, our parents assumed it would fade with other teenage fads. But we knew instinctively that we were on the winning side of a revolution.
Richard Long: Walking as an art form
The wayfarer and the way: Richard Long and walking as an art form
The British artist Richard Long has made his country's pastime, walking, into an art form for nearly half a century, and the Tate Britain's retrospective of his work— graphic and photographic, textual and sculptural— is the record of a singular life's journey.
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Sweeney and Martenson at Gross McCleaf
All art is local
Two new shows at Gross McCleaf Gallery demonstrate the ways in which a particular locality— in this case, Maine and Philadelphia— can inspire artists.
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Melissa Dunphy's "Gonzales Cantata'
Sympathy for Alberto Gonzales
Melissa Dunphy's Gonzales Cantata uses actual transcripts of a 2007 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to transform the tedious machinations of politics into a brilliant work of art. The only thing missing, alas, is a point. Alberto Gonzales facing Arlen Specter isn't exactly Christ confronting Pontius Pilate.
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Sharon White's "Vanished Gardens'
A journey in a hiccupping time machine
In Vanished Gardens, Sharon White takes readers on an impressionistic tour de force through Philadelphia's green spaces, past and present. She's a stylish writer, but fitting all the pieces of her broad mosaic together is no easy task.
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