Jérôme Bel, tEEth & Blue Crains

(Community Matters) FUSEBOX FESTIVAL on Thursday – Cedric Andrieux in Jérôme Bel takes the audience into the dance world’s inter sanctum, revealing the mixed motivations of a dancer, the tedium of practicing every day for 7 years as a member of Merce Cunningham’s company, the exhilaration of life after Merce when he’s free to enjoy the movement of his body without challenging it every step.  While he was demonstrating the every day exercises of Merce dancers, you could see and feel his strength, observe precision.

tEEth’s  performance of Home Made was arresting, intimate & shocking – their integration of media an engaging puzzle. The juxtaposition of their bodies on stage and under cover on camera contrasting perspectives of body from an up-close, raw literalness where you see every pore, leg hair, underarm to the  on-stage archetype bodies of dancers

Blue Crains performed late at the Marfa Public Radio Seaholm Late Night. They’re an interesting band, played a type of music with which I’m not familiar – the improv of jazz with an northwest coast indie sound. I enjoyed it.

Tonight, we’re headed to the Rude Mech’s Opening Night Gala of I’ve Never Been So Happy, then Late Night where Mother Falcon will rock the house with a full set. They attracted over 900 fans to the Marfa Public Radio Seaholm site on Wednesday, imagining another big night (this time with big fans, as in air circulation). Definitely a night Austinites should wander over to Seaholm – almost free ($5)

Our cousin, Brent Huggins, is visiting from Northeastern [Oklahoma] State University. He’s fun.

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