Chelsea Gallerista

Vernita  N'cognita lets fly in a hyper-controlled butoh fashion In the spirit of "you learn something new every day as long as you refrain from saying  meh, " I learned a new word today:  butoh . Butoh is a kind of mute performance so eloquently defined in Wikipedia, I've copy-pasted the definition here:  Butoh   ( 舞踏  Butō ? )  is the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for  dance , performance, or movement inspired by the  Ankoku-Butoh   ( 暗黒 舞踏 ankoku butō ? )  movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, with or without an audience. There is no set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi Hijikata  and  Kazuo Ohno I lov...

New York never fails to redeem itself" - E.B. White in "Here is New York" A lot as already been written about the inhabitants of an apartment that rubs railings with the recently opened Highline Park in Chelsea . You can google "Renegade Cabaret" in the blabosphere and land on their Facebook page, webpage and a lot of citizen cyber-ink. Prior to the $152m, "no binoculars needed" viewing platform unrolling outside her window, it appears resident Patty Heffley "lived in obscurity for 31 years in her building on West 20th St", sashaying from bathroom to bedroom without having to duck 'n' run in a towel as you do, and ecologically hanging out her laundry on the exposed fire escape without hassle. On June 9, 2009, things changed, when this soon-to-be world famous public park knocked on her window box. Her sporting response was to grab a couple of friends with talent, string out the paper lanterns and put on a show. Since the...