Berg’s cast consists of four female dancers (including herself) and Tanya. This corresponds to the four figures in Joseph Cornell’s box, Variétés de Minéralogie Object (1939), labeled (in translation) “greenish; reddish; blackish; Cleopatra-ish” along with the cut-out image, which appears as… Read more

Joseph Cornell’s “Variétés de Minéralogie Object” (1939). The inspiration for Laurie Berg’s The Mineralogy of Objects (tonight thru tomorrow, 8pm). The labels beneath the four figures are: verdatre; rougeatre; noiratre; Cleopatre.

Images: Leon Reid IV George Balanchine’s “Apollo” Mary Beth Edelson – “Last Supper” and other collage work Pataphysics – “every point is a turning point” Wangechi Mutu  

Dances without Dancing, Chaos, Failure, and the Process of Becoming Thyself Typos, transformations, wrong decisions, moments of action that engender unintended results.  Failing to be who we are—or who we want to be—as a process that brings us closest to… Read more