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Seven Women, Seven Sins Greed Bette Gordon. 1986

Stuyvesant Town 12 Stuyvesant Oval, New York, NY 10009, USA See in map

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[shibuyatokyo]

KATE VALK

[soupy-sez]

Willem Dafoe and Kate Valk. Soho, New York City 1993, © Jillian Edelstein [X]

[dare-g]

Brace Up! (1993)

[jacobwren]

If you’re on stage and something goes wrong, it’s a golden opportunity to be present. No one comes to the theater to see it done right. You go for transcendence. When something goes wrong, that means the room is open and there’s room for everybody. It just happened, it’s out of everybody’s control. So if you can watch somebody be in the moment, be present, deal with that, it’s the golden opportunity.

Kate Valk

[anightfullofnosleep]

Kate Valk

[jgthirlwell]

05.13.18 The Bang On A Can Marathon moved to Skirball Center, part of NYU this year. a very comfortable and good-sounding hall where the audience could wander in and out of the ten hours of performances. I caught the last five hours, the highlights being Bang On A Can Allstars playing Frederic Rzewski, Contemporaneous and Bang On A Can Allstars playing Jeffrey Brooks, Maya Beiser and Kate Valk playing a composition by David Lang. The showstopper was Ethel performing Julia Wolfe’s “With A Blue Dress”. Unfortunately I missed Tom Chiu’s piece which I heard was amazing.

[milesbutterball]

the day

“'the day' looks at ways we review our lives,” Lang explains, “exploring remembered moments as a chronicle of a life.” Lang sourced the text from the internet by searching for the phrase “I remember the day that I...,” and then cut and compiled lyrics based on his findings. The spoken word accompaniment by actor Kate Valk lends an emotional charge to Beiser’s poignant cello lines, which gradually build in multi-tracked layers to emulate a small string ensemble.