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Fusebox Festival 2010: The line-up is announced
Oh, yes, the word ‘cool’ is so over-used. But the Fusebox Festival is the epitome of cool.
Tonight, Fusebox founder and artistic director Ron Berry gathered the crowds at Okay Mountain gallery to announce the line-up for the 11-day mind-blowing indulgence of performance and time-based art.
Once again, Berry is bringing a breathtaking roster of international artists to Austin for the April festival. And now with mores support and sponsorships — in particular ABPorter.org, and, new this year, UT’s Texas Performing Arts — Berry’s been able to expand and deepen the festival.
This year, Fusebox runs April 21 through May 1 at sites all around Austin.
To start things off on April 21, choreographer Allison Orr and composer Graham Reynolds — two inimitable Austin talents — will collaborate to stage a Texas-sized country swing band playing for hundreds of two-steppers who will kick off Fusebox on the steps of the Texas State Capitol.
Here’s the rest of the Fusebox line-up so far (but expect updates and additions!):
- Big Dance Theater, ‘Comme Toujours: Here I Stand,’ a dance theatre re-invention of Agnes Varda’s classic New Wave film about a critical moment in the life of a marginally talented pop singer.
- Theater Replacement, ‘WeeTube,’ part performance, part parlor game by a Vancouver-based performance troupe, ‘WeeTube’ uses the publicly posted comments of popular YouTube Videos as performance text.
- Daniel Barrow, ‘Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry,’ a video-based performance by the Winnipeg-based artist that combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city.
- Greg Brooker, ‘Texan,’ a site specific poem constructed of text, paper, one million newspapers, a crop duster, a taxi cab, the geographical expanse of the state of Texas and twin brothers.
- John Kelly, ‘Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell.’ The brilliant two-time Obie Award winning artist John Kelly once again inhabits the persona of Joni Mitchell in an entirely new evening of songs and stories.
- Luke Savisky, ‘Stepchild,’ a new video installation by the Austin artist.
- Kristen Kosmas with Physical Plant Theare, ‘This From Cloudland,’ a new love story.
- Action Hero, ‘A Western,’ is a performance for a bar, a celebration of a failure to capture the true size and majesty of the Wild West.
- Phil Soltanoff, ‘LA Party,’ a performance video about a fanatical vegan who slides off the wagon one night, falling head first into a wild L.A. bender.
- Kaiji Moriyama, ‘The Velvet Suite,’ The U.S. premiere by one of Japan’s most acclaimed contemporary dancers.
- ArtGravelGroup, ‘Gravel Works,’ Montreal-based troupe performs a live music and dance showcase of moods, humour, bodies, pop songs, personalities and friendly impertinence.
- Mike Smith, a new video installation by the renowned video/performance artist
- Wura Ogunji, ‘one hundred black women, one hundred actions,’ a performance of critical actions, gestures and movements from 100 black women around the world —performed in East Austin, projected live in West Austin.
- Heloise Gold, dancer
- Okay Mountain, Austin art collective
- Rubber Rep, Austin theater collective
- Rude Mechs, Austin theater collective
Image (top): Big Dance Theater’s ‘Comme Toujours: Here I Stand.’ Photo by Mike Van Sleen.
Image (bottom): John Kelly as Joni Mitchell in ‘Paved Paradise REDUX.’ Photo by Frank H. Jump.
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