Nov 2012 - Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association

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Arts
Traveling North by North
Regla De Oro Gallery moves into Greenleaf
Photo composite courtesy of Regla De Oro Gallery
after two strong years at home on the corner of Lyndale ave. and
Lake st., regla de oro gallery will be moving just up the street
three blocks to a new location at 2743 Lyndale ave. Located in
the new greenleaf building neighboring springHouse Ministries
and what will be the new world street Kitchen restaurant. Jessica
smith, regla de oro gallery owner, hopes that in addition
to being a first rate retail destination, the design and spirit of the
new location will lend itself well to hosting community-focused
events. regla de oro gallery will be opening its new location in
mid-November. For more info visit www.regladeoro.com.
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How I wish I could see
these costumes moving
on real people!
I hope this latest exhibition
at the Walker Art Center inspires
local choreographers
to experiment with disproportional
costumes so I can
have my wish. “Dance Works
III: Merce Cunningham / Rei
Kawakubo,” focuses on the
unprecedented 1997 collaboration
between the choreographer
and the founder of the
fashion label, Comme des
Garçons. Cunningham invited
Kawakubo to design both the
costumes and the set for his
dance, “Scenario.”
Along with mannequins displaying
a selection of the cos-
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tumes, the Medtronic Gallery’s
walls are bedecked with
videos of the dance and footage
from Kawakubo’s 1997
fashion show, “Body Meets
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Dance Costumes Disorient in Walker’s
third Cunningham Exhibit
Until March 24
By Vanessa Moore Ardolino, Wedge Arts Reviewer
Photo by Christopher James
robert swinston and cheryl therrien in Merce cunningham’s
scenario, 1997.
Dress, Dress Meets Body,” as
well as photographs, books,
interviews and various posters
and other “ephemera” from
the performance. The dance’s
somewhat unsettling electronic
score “Wave Code A-Z,” by
Cunningham company musical
director Takehisa Kosugi
plays the sound system.
As an avant garde choreographer,
Cunningham was always
striving to find new ways to
surprise, and perhaps even
disorient, his dancers in order
to reveal the most pure form
of the movement. So, Kawakubo’s
costumes must have instantly
delighted him.
I love that the first image visitors
see as they enter the gallery
is a wall-sized photograph
of Kawakubo walking across
a dance studio to shake Cunningham’s
hand. It dwarfs all
other images in the show. To
me, it says the dance, as well as
the exhibition, is more about
the collaboration between two
masters in their fields, rather
than the dance – or fruit – of
their partnership.
When viewed in the performance
photographs, Kawakubo’s
costumes play tricks on
your eyes. Constructed out of
matte black, rich red, oversized
turquoise and white
plaid, and thick cobalt and
white striped fabrics, the garments
first appear to be too
simple to hide many secrets.
Also, her chosen stage design
of bare white walls and simple
fluorescent lighting, fosters a
clinical feel prepared for scrutiny.
But then, what you first
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November
Film Schedule
Lagoon Cinema &
Uptown Theatre
(Listed in order of release)
The Sessions
The Loneliest Planet
Brooklyn Castle
The Flat
My Dinner With Andre
Love Quartet
This Must Be The Place
Nobody Walks
The Other Son
Wuthering Heights
The Man Who Would Be
King
Studio Ghibli Sessions
Anna Karenina
Silver Linings Playbook
Hitchcock
Chasing Ice
Sister
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for exact dates and times
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think is a leg wrapped around
someone’s midriff turns out to
have no body attached. With
a closer look, you realize the
dancer’s costume has a pronounced
and awkward lump
in it.
Studying the costumes on
the mannequins reveals all
the strange proportions, but
might not provide the empathetic
physicality required to
comprehend how they might
impede a dancer’s movement.
Not only would it affect how
the dancers twist their torsos
and lift their limbs, but as the
lumps are filled with down,
rather than something less
substantial, their heft could
throw the dancer off balance
as they hurtle through threedimensional
space.
As seen in the performance
footage, these bulges along the
hips, shoulders, chests, and
backs, of the dancers do not
seem to be getting in the way
of the dancers too badly. But,
of course, they are professionals.
“Dance Works III” will be on
display until March 24, 2013.
The Walker is located at 1750
Hennepin Avenue. For more
information call 612.375.7600
or visit www.walkerart.org.
‘Don’t Rain on My Panda Bear!’
Bryant-Lake Bowl, November 9 and 10
Justin Leaf and Jim dominick “at the intersection of money and dreams.”
Junkyard Theater will present “Don’t rain on my panda
bear!” an original cabaret show at the Bryant-Lake Bowl
Theater, Friday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10 at 10 pm.
With dancing panda bear in tow, Justin Leaf takes the stage
at the intersection of money and dreams to sing the songs
of Kurt Weill, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, and more. Musical
director George Maurer plays piano and Leaf ’s alter ego
Mistress Ginger makes a guest appearance in this cabaret
evening devoted to all things money and all things dreams.
The Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater is located at 2951 Lyndale
Avenue. Tickets are $10 to 15, sliding scale, and can be
purchased at www.bryantlakebowl.com or by calling
612.825.8949. For more information, visit www.justinleaf.
com or www.junkyardtheater.com.
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SooVAC’s 9th Annual Juried Exhibition
“through a quiet sense of natural wonder, 13 artists noiselessly
manipulate, cut, dissect, blur and disintegrate architecture,
bodies and the landscape – Murmuring,” Juror chris
Larson explains. Larson is an internationally recognized artist
and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. the
opening reception is saturday, November 10, 6pm-9pm.
the show runs Nov. 10-dec. 30. More info at www.soovac.
org or visit the center at 2638 Lyndale avenue. shown above
is an image by Jesse draxler.
Tales of Terror
Arts
Photo by Quincy Stroeing
attendance neared 40 people for the oct. 19 city ghosts
storytelling at the gluek House at 25th st. and bryant ave.
Well Crafted
Photo by Kelly Newcomer
creighton and Hollis Fricek of woodchuck’s wood live in the
Lynnhurst neighborhood and exhibted at the HandmadeMN
show at the ballentine VFw at 2916 Lyndale on october 27th.
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