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Jordan Fuch's Thicket recently made its San Diego debut in a pre-opening performance at Sushi's new performance space. |
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Home bodies
Sushi's taken a long journey, physically and artistically – they're settled in new digs now, but the creative march is far from over
By Janice Steinberg
A combination carnival, edgy participatory performance and impassioned social critique, “The New Barbarian Collection Winter 2008” aims to send the audience parading through the East Village on Saturday night. Dubbed an “X-treme fashion show,” the event is a U.S. premiere by Guillermo Gómez-Peña's La Pocha Nostra, a fluid collection of international artists.
'I promised myself that I'd be a different kind of musician'
By Aimee Greenberg
Evan Ziporyn's music will not be confined into the straitjacket of any one genre. The composer-performer's cross-cultural mix of contemporary and classical influences forms a rhythmic patchwork of intricate and lush design.
SECOND THOUGHTS
At the Civic, lesson in how to make the music matter
By Jim Chute
SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR
Imagine attending a concert by one of the great orchestras of the world, the Boston Symphony, perhaps, or maybe the Berlin Philharmonic. At the end of the program, the audience leaps to its feet and demands more. After one encore, protracted applause forces the ensemble to launch into a second encore.
