Pol Rosenthal

Category: Performance

  • Musical Performance: Right HERE/Right NOW

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    [UPDATE! Here/Now has finally posted the group portrait for the night and has written a short piece on the event; check it out here…] Last night I had the pleasure of playing an improvised set at Paige Barnes’ and Christopher Hydinger’s HERE/NOW improvisational performance event. This is their description of Here/Now: ‘HERE/NOW consists of 8 Dancers…

  • Guilty, A Public Passion

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    Last weekend I was part of a ritualized public reading of Bataille’s ‘Guilty‘ out at the Smoke Farm complex. Photographer Dan Hawkins made a time-lapse video of our 7 hour adventure… Guilty is the edited diary of George Bataille written during World War 2. Bataille explores the guilt and anger he experiences at not being…

  • ‘tito’

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    tito a video by bluecut on Flickr. This is exceptional. The lighting, the editing. I want to shoot video of so many people tonight.

  • Dead Bird Movement : TRIOS

    Dead Bird Movement : TRIOS

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    Dead Bird Movement : TRIOS On July 27, 2011 I participated in a 24 hour dance event. Local arts incubator Project: Space Available recently held a week-long fundraiser, Five Fingers Fundraiser. There were 5 different events each hosted by a different artist or arts collaborative.They invited Jessie Smith, creator/choreographer/sole intelligence of dance concept Dead Bird…

  • The Pink Door

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    This past April I once again had the pleasure of working with Dead Bird Movement choreographer Jessie Smith. Joining us onstage were Jim Kent and Anne Mathews. Jim’s a dancer and multi-instrumentalist working in Seattle and a wonderful person. Anne and I previously played in The Infernal Noise Brigade; we were the bass drummers for…