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Category Archives: About Art – Performance
Mike Daisey’s performance exposing China factory worklife finds another more accessible platform
The talk about this performance just keeps piling up. Featured today in cover story for CBS Sunday Morning show here, Having started at Berkeley Rep and then Washington’s Wooly Mammoth, monologist Mike Daisey’s brilliant, funny, disturbing report on working conditions in … Continue reading
Posted in About Art - Performance, About TV, Uncategorized
Tagged apple, cbs, china, factories, ira glass, mike daisey, public theater, steve jobs, television, work, work by hand, workers, Wyatt Closs
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Day Laborer Theater Without Borders: Fusion of Art & Reality
From Huffington Post LOS ANGELES — Most days, they are construction workers and painters and maids. But twice a year, this group of day laborers morphs into actors in a traveling street theater troupe that performs at the very job … Continue reading
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Where is the new “New Dance Group” ? Part 1
We’re uncovering/rediscovering new information about this dance company that fused workers’ values and dance seamlessly and paving the way for many modern dance legends we know today. It was established in 1932 by a group of artists and choreographers dedicated … Continue reading
Posted in About Art - Performance, Blog Blog and More Blog
Tagged 1930s, Alvin Ailey, dance, JAne Dualey, Martha Graham, modern dance, New Dance Group, new york, Talley Beatty, The Depression, workers
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