Gregarious Expressions

“With an aesthetic based nineteenth century England but reaching toward a fantastical future, we see time both moving forward and looking back; it exists both as a historical moment and beyond it.  The steam technology and bizarre, archaic optical gear, put to use in unfamiliar ways also suggest that ordinary rules don’t apply in a steampunk setting.  The atmosphere created by the steampunk aesthetic underscores the temporally topsy-turvy Illyria, a place where the festive powers of timlessness will join forces to try and rid their world of darkness and grief. “

–dramaturge Dr. Adrienne Eastwood

Why is Metblogs so excited about SJSU’s steampunk Twelfth Night? | San Jose Metblogs.

Catherine Saillant;’s article in today’s Los Angeles Times talks with a number of performance arts scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.  who have turned their authorly attention toward the annual festival.

Each seems to be discovering their own relevance but the consensus seems to be, “It’s more than a party.”

Uh-huh.

via Burning Man becomes a hot academic topic – latimes.com.

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I don’t know why it took me so long to think this might exist. The photos that came out of this shoot were among the most gorgeous things any one saw this summer.

I have an early Yard Dogs Road Show DVD that may very well be no longer available for purchase. This, in comparison, is sheer glamour (although there is certainly something to be said for the fresh energy fueling that early work.)

-ag

Good to know.

I had heard this term a long time ago, come to think of it, but had forgot all about it. The play sounds VERY promising.

“Nance, or nancy boy, is disparaging slang for an effeminate or homosexual man, and nances were popular theatrical figures, akin to blackface performers, during the 1920s and ’30s.”

via Nathan Lane May Play ‘The Nance’ – NYTimes.com.