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Les Colporteurs’ “Filao”
The best part of the show comes when limbs of trees are scattered all over the stage, on the ground, and along the highwire. Agathe Olivier (co-founder of Les Colporteurs with Antoine Rigot) walks across the uneven limbs in high heels….
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The Colla Marionettes’ “Aida”
The marionettes themselves were very life-like — with Amneris and Aida being exceptionally realistic. The costumes and scenery are truly works of art, and the set is like the most beautiful jewel-box ever made.
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Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens at Spoleto
These contemporary pieces were done with artistry and precision by a company whose artistic director, Gradimir Pankov, says he wants to turn it into one of the most exciting companies in the world.
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Les Colporteurs and their noveau cirque
The big top tent is perhaps the star of this ensemble — or rather the heart. It has an opaque, caramel- and ivory-striped exterior that rises 49 feet high. … It takes the group three days to set up the tent and two days to strike it. Antoine calls the tent “our playground, our place…
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The Scupture of Joel Shapiro at Middleton Place
As one cow rubs its nose against one of Shapiro’s pieces, he laughs and says, “Maybe the cows are the most responsive to my work — they find it a good scratching post!”
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Joel Shapiro Designs a Spoleto Poster
Nigel Redden, director of Spoleto Festival USA, believes the poster image captures the “whimsy and movement of Joel’s work.”
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F#!k Art at Morris Street Studio
If you’re looking for a surfboard chair or some erotic paintings based on old Italian love sonnets, you have three more Saturdays to get to Morris Street Studio for their “F#!k Art, Let’s Dance” show. As the second gallery show for which Doug DeGood has opened up his studio, he is proving to curate some…
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Harry Folsom and students on display at New Life
(Folsom’s) paintings aren’t just about himself or his childhood or his dreams, but about his philosophy on how people in our society live together, and how we retain our identities within that society.
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The Pride of Public Art
In an age when so much of our culture is imported and homogenized, public art could be the last bastion for the expression of ideas that are inherent to our culture.
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The Sea Hag Scene
The rest of Townsley’s work were free-standing sculptures, and of those, “King” was astonishing. Approxiamtely eight feet tall, his body parts weren’t quite in proportion — one area was particularly well endowed, which I won’t get into. The fantastic beings she brings to life are what make her sculptures so unique and awesome.
Kristen L. Rhodes
Art Reviews and Criticism
Kristen L. Rhodes 