UPCOMING

::: 05.04.12 MAGICAL Dansenhus, Stockholm
::: 05.03.12 MAGICAL Dansenhus, Stockholm
::: 04.20.12 SHUFFLE CULTURE Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
::: 04.19.12 SHUFFLE CULTURE Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
::: 02.18.12 HELLO HI THERE, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, NY

::: 12.31.11 MAGICAL Brut, Vienna
::: 12.30.11 MAGICAL Brut, Vienna
::: 10.19.11 Lecture @ Columbia Computer Science Dept on Digital Theatre
::: 08.24.11 HELLO HI THERE Noorderzon Festival, Groningen
::: 08.23.11 HELLO HI THERE Noorderzon Festival, Groningen

::: 08.22.11 HELLO HI THERE Noorderzon Festival, Groningen
::: 07.12.11 MAGICAL Sommerszene, Salzburg
::: 07.12.11 HELLO HI THERE Sommerszene, Salzburg
::: 07.11.11 MAGICAL Sommerszene, Salzburg
::: 07.11.11 HELLO HI THERE Sommerszene, Salzburg

::: 06.10.11 MAGICAL Kampnagel, Hamburg
::: 06.09.11 MAGICAL Kampnagel, Hamburg
::: 04.16.11 MAGICAL BIT Teatergarasen, Bergen
::: 04.15.11 MAGICAL BIT Teatergarasen, Bergen
::: 04.13.11 MAGICAL Teaterhuset Avant Garden, Trondheim

::: 04.12.11 MAGICAL Teaterhuset Avant Garden, Trondheim
::: 04.09.11 MAGICAL Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
::: 04.08.11 MAGICAL Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
::: 03.22.11 PIÈCE SANS PAROLES Théâtre du Chateau, Eu
::: 02.26.11 HELLO HI THERE Phaenomenale Festival, Wolfsburg

::: 02.11.11 MAGICAL Side Step Festival, Helsinki
::: 02.10.11 MAGICAL Side Step Festival, Helsinki

NEWS

::: 11.18.11 New Occupy Wall Street blog post for LRB
::: 10.12.11 My blog post for London Review of Books about Occupy Wall Street.
::: 08.23.11 How To Do Things By Theory
::: 08.21.11 I am now officially certified yoga teacher. True fact.
::: 05.04.11 Theme from Mahogany

::: 04.28.11 Geminoid DK Mechanical Test
::: 04.28.11 Objects without Property
::: 04.17.11 The Art World as a Form of Politics
::: 01.12.11 Hello Hi There at PS122 Insta~Review
::: 05.10.10 Can computer models help us to understand human creativity?

PROJECTS

::: Spoken Karaoke
::: The False Peach
::: Hello Hi There
::: Magical

::: Pièce Sans Paroles
::: I Miss
::: Democracy in America
::: Ethel's Truck Stop

::: Ask Your Mama
::: Passing Strange

PRESS

::: Fuse Questlove's Electrifying Shuffle Culture
::: Whatever #3 Annie Dorsen talks to Una Bauer
::: Morgenbladet (Oslo) The spirit of the machine Annie Dorsen...
::: Culturebot Talking to Annie Dorsen
::: Village Voice Hello Hi There--Theater for Downtown Machines

::: New York Times 5 Questions About ‘Hello Hi There’
::: Austrian Press Reviews for 'Hello Hi There'
::: NPR 'Ask Your Mama': A Music And Poetry Premiere
::: Art’O (The futurity of) democracy in America: utopia as...
::: BAMezine Questions for Annie Dorsen

::: New York Times Sympathy for the Stones From a String Quartet
::: American Theatre Annie Dorsen Puts Democracy on The Market...
::: New York Magazine A Less Cheesy Musical
::: New York Times It’s a Hard Rock Life
::: The New Yorker Young American: Passing Strange

BIO

Annie Dorsen works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, digital performance. Most recently, Hello Hi There premiered at the streirischer herbst festival (Graz), and was presented at Black Box Teatre (Oslo), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) and PS122 (New York). She is the co-creator of the 2008 Broadway musical Passing Strange, which she also directed. Spike Lee has since made a film of her production of the piece, which premiered at the Sundance Film

Festival in 2009, subsequently screened at South by Southwest Film Festival and The Tribeca Film Festival, and was released theatrically by IFC in 2010 before being broadcast on PBS' Great Performances. Also in 2010, she collaborated with choreographer Anne Juren on Magical (ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna, Side Step Festival Helsinki, Théatre de la Cité International Paris, Kampnagel Hamburg and others) and with Ms. Juren and DD Dorviller on Pièce Sans Paroles (brut Vienna and

Rencontres Choréographiques Internationales Seine-St-Denis, Paris). In 2009 she created two music-theatre pieces, Ask Your Mama, a setting of Langston Hughes' 1962 poem, composed by Laura Karpman and sung by Jessye Norman and The Roots (Carnegie Hall) and ETHEL's Truckstop, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival. Her pop-political performance project Democracy in America was presented at PS122 in spring 2008. Her short film, I Miss, originally the centerpiece

of Democracy in America, screened at American Film Institute Festival (AFI Fest), SXSW Film Festival, The New York Film Festival's "Views From the Avant-Garde" and the Nantucket Film Festival. In addition to numerous awards for Passing Strange, Ms. Dorsen has received several fellowships, notably the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship from the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She has taught at New York University and Fordham University, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

On Tuesday morning, just a few hours into the post-eviction era of Occupy Wall Street, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times tweeted: ‘Could #Bloomberg be a secret Occupy Wall Streeter? He seems to have just revived the movement.’

On my first visit to Occupy Wall Street, two weeks ago (but it might as well be years, given how rapidly the movement is growing and changing), I sat in on a meeting of the Media Committee. A paper was being passed around, and we were asked to provide email addresses, a list of our skills and the equipment....

Lots of interesting things to read, from Walking Theory (TkH) Belgrade, realized during a 3-year program at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Paris.

Om.

Miss Ross.

Mechnical test of Geminoid DK
Still pretty far from the end result, but interesting nonetheless.

Support PAF (Performing Arts Forum) to create a fund for the necessary renovation of the building.
This is a catalogue listing all movable objects present in the building. There are 10.000 objects that you can buy and leave there to make their use possible for all PAF residents.

"I am really not trying to be cynical. Actually I think the dilemma to some degree flows from the very nature of politics. One thing the explosion of the avant garde did accomplish was to destroy the boundaries between art and politics, to make clear in fact that art was always, really, a form of politics ..."

Equipped with only an iPhone 4, AndrewAndrew shoots, edits and posts their "Insta-Review" of Hello Hi There playing at PS122, part of PS122's COIL festival.

Human creativity is something of a mystery, not to say a paradox. One new idea may be creative, while another is merely new. What’s the difference? And how is creativity possible? Creative ideas are unpredictable. Sometimes, they even seem to be impossible — and yet they happen. How can that be explained?