FLEXN at the Armoury : high and street on unequal footing

By Ivan Talijancic, 29 March 2015

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“FLEXN’s highly ambitious production design, in spite of its magnificence, proved counterproductive.”

Reviewed at Park Avenue Armory, New York City on 26 March 2015

Peter Sellars, Director

Reggie Gray, Choreography

The Flex Community, Dancer

Bach cantatas, American spirituals, global calamity

Kurt Gottschalk, 21st May

The Gospel according to Peter Sellars: an intermingling of Bach’s cantatas and American spirituals depicts an environmental message that the impending end won’t be personal, but global.

***11

An unlikely meeting of Morton Feldman and the blues

Kurt Gottschalk, 27th September

Sorey’s instrumentation mirrors Feldman’s Rothko Chapel in a moving evening of musical high drama at Park Avenue Armory.

*****

LA Dance Project: a fugitive Romeo & Juliet Suite in New York

Carla Escoda, 3rd March

Benjamin Millepied's Romeo & Juliet Suite for LA Dance Project, to Prokofiev sliced and diced, has arrived in New York. Stunningly staged, with a puzzling shortage of characters.

**111

Haas’ 11,000 Strings at Park Avenue Armory

Kurt Gottschalk, 30th September

Like Ligeti before him, Georg Friedrich Haas makes the avant garde approachable as this performance of 11,000 Strings reveals.

***11

A brief journey into the timeless world of Meredith Monk

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd September

The North American premiere of Indra's Net finds Meredith Monk back in her familiar, inexplicable realm.

*****

An immersion into the psyche of Stockhausen at the Park Avenue Armory

Kurt Gottschalk, 8th June

Inside Light, which takes music from Karlheinz Stockhausen's massive, 29-hour opera cycle Licht, adds to the enigma while creating its own spectacle.

****1

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Ivan Talijancic

Ivan Talijancic is a director, choreographer, performer, writer, producer, visual designer, video- and film-maker. He is the co-founder and artistic co-director of WaxFactory, a New York-based international multidisciplinary performance group, with whom he toured worldwide.

High art meets street art, on an unequal footing: FLEXN at the Park Avenue Armory