SATURDAY MARCH 3 / SUNDAY MARCH 4 / PERFORMANCE / Le Petit Cirque [The Small Circus] is a complex sound object object made of wood, plastic, strings, springs and fragility. A mere breath can set it vibrating. Twelve small microphones draw resources from its interior. Le Petit Cirque is a circus. Its handling is perilous, [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18 / 7.30PM / MOVIE by Richard Garet and Asher Thal-Nir. The imagery of Melting Ground consists of an uninterrupted single handheld take, while flying in a helicopter over Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska in August 2005. Garet submitted the footage to rigorous processes of digital manipulation, altering the takes natural condition, light, [...]
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 / 7.30PM / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / The German term Werktreue refers to the concept of historical authenticity in performance, the notion of fidelity to an ideal form of the artwork found, for example, in the musical score. While extensive discussions of historical authenticity appeared in the 1980s in American and English [...]
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9 / 8PM / PERFORMANCE The Invisible Dog will host the REHEARSAL series, a works-in-progress showing of various types of performance— this week the choreographer and dancer Tara Willis will be showing a short piece, followed by a discussion in which the audience is asked to articulate their responses. The series curator Sophia [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11 / 8PM CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event put on every two months or so, usually in Brooklyn, NY. Curated and hosted by Jeff Larson and Andrew Dinwiddie and brilliantly administered by Caleb Hammons. Animals, Michelle Boulé, Megan Byrne, The Debate Society, Daniel Fish, The Sasparilla Sisters, Brian [...]
Happy New Year 2012. Thank you for your support in 2011. A lot of love. photos: Simon Courchel for The Invisible Dog
Dear friends, The Invisible Dog has grown – and it’s all thanks to you. Since we opened two years ago, we have had an enormous audience attend our visual art exhibitions, dance, theater, and music performances; film screenings; literature and poetry readings; lectures; community events; and more. Now we are reaching out to you, our [...]
The Invisible Dog Art Center opened in October, 2009, a raw space in a vast converted factory building with a charmed history and an open-ended mission: to create, from the ground up, a new kind of interdisciplinary arts center. Over the last two years, over 50,000 people have attended our events: visual art exhibits; dance, [...]
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 / 6.30PM / MUSIC Fortnight Journal presents three Fortnight contributors in collaboration. Centered around the viol consort of Edition II contributor, Elizabeth Weinfield, the night will comprise of several Renaissance pieces, poetry, and song. Sonnambula will be joined by poet Adam Fitzgerald (Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books and The [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUAY 4 / NOON TO 8PM / THEATER ‘American Realism’ is a one-day extreme endurance piece for eight actors, about contemporary labor, spoken through the voices of depression-era California migrant workers. Disassembling notions of realism and investigating the possibilities of reenactment without authenticity, this piece exposes the ennui of laborers, from dot-com start-up entrepreneurs to immigrant maintenance workers. The text [...]
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