Leave a comment with your best caption for this photo from the last film in our Lie! Cheat! Steal! & Fake It! Doc series, Orgasm Inc. On April 26, we will pick our favorite and send the lucky, witty wordsmith a pair of tickets to the film screening on Thursday, April 29. Ready…. Set…. caption away!

Cheers,

B

Our former intern Sean Conway sent us a link to this piece from the San Diego City Beat about a project inspired by his time at MASS MoCA. He’s collaborating with Kenny Wollesen who he met here while he was an intern.

There are dozens of collaborations that have been the result of musicians meeting here.  The Bang on a Can Festival (this year its July 14- 31) is particularly fertile ground for the growth of new pairings.

Just call us Yenta….

Video Vortex = a weekly installment of our favorite videos from MASS MoCA artists and trailers for upcoming events, plus a few random viral creations as well.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company I Drink The Air Before Me

It’s time again for our yearly co-sponsored dance event with Jacob’s Pillow. Petronio’s Tempest inspired work will be performed TONIGHT (Friday, April 9) and tomorrow (Saturday, April 10) at 8 PM.

Solid Sound Festival

We announced the Wilco curated Solid Sound art and music festival this week. Let’s be honest we are excited, are you?

Carolina Chocolate Drops

And speaking of things we are excited about… give it up for CCD.

Happy Friday

Brittany

Joe Fusaro from Art21 came to the Kidspace 10th anniversary festivities and had a chance to interview Laura Thompson. He posted his interview here.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company

The New York Times says Stephen Petronio Dance Company has “Ferocious speed, rigorous structure & dancers who ravel & unravel like ribbons.”

Kicking & Screening

Here’s a clip for the first film we are screening as part of the soccer film festival April 23 & 24.

Disfarmer

What happens when a cranky old man comes alive inside the body of a puppet? If you watch nothing else in video vortex this week watch this AMAZING clip from Disfarmer!

Peeps

A little love for our favorite Easter candy! Watch Peep Wars, Peep Jaws, and Project Peepway below.

Happy Friday,

Brittany

I’m a bit of a theater nerd, so needless to say I was thrilled when I found out we would be presenting a staged reading of John Kelly’s newest work The Escape Artist as part of the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab on Saturday, April 3. I’m mostly familiar with Kelly through his brilliant character work, and specifically as one of his most beloved characters Dagmar Onassis, the fictional love child of Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas.

Kelly is a two time Bessie and Obie award winning performance and visual artist whose work began in New York’s East Village clubs in the early 1980’s; since that time he has created over 30 performance works which have been performed at venues across the country. Originally trained as a dancer with American Ballet Theatre and the Harkness House for Ballet Arts, he embraces all forms of art from theater, dance, visual art, drag, film, and music in his work.

Kelly has been on campus over the last week working on The Escape Artist, which will eventually include a collision of music, video and story. The premise revolves around a singer hired to lay down the tracks for cinematic re-enactments of the paintings of Caravaggio. The singer channels the characters that populate the paintings, encounters unexpected technical difficulties, and reveals a turbulent personal history of his own. The Escape Artist considers the parallels between the unbridled creative spirit of the urban artist of the 17th and 21st centuries.

Before coming to MASS MoCA Kelly spent time in Rome recording video and shoot photographs of the characters he takes on in The Escape Artist.

At MASS MoCA Kelly shot this video promo for The Escape Artist in the bridge leading up to the LeWitt Retrospective. (click on the image to view)

True to Kelly’s style he is compiling all sorts of artistic creations to form a truly multi-media experience for the audiences of The Escape Artist.  Although the showing at MASS MoCA is only a staged reading and will not include all of the final pieces of the show, from one theater nerd to another, this performance is going to be a night at the theater you don’t want to miss!

Cheers,

Brittany