Ralph Lemon Performance Piece: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater (700 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103)
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The last date listed for Ralph Lemon: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? was Saturday October 9, 2010 / 8:00pm.
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Goldstar Member on Where to Park
Very convenient to M'gomery and Powell BART or all Mission/Market bus lines.
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Casual dress is fine.
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Save your $$ and go see Brothers Size instead. Or stay home with a good book.
3 Goldstar Member Reviews
Kenyon
Wanted to like it. Enjoyed a few, brief moments. Mostly painful. People definitely walked out. On the other hand, a few people gave a standing ovation - go figure! The ybca staff encouraged everyone to look at the related gallery offerings before the show - take them up on that.Written on Oct 11 2010
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Excruciatingly tedious piece!Written on Oct 08 2010
I wasn't familiar with this choreographer, but as a long-time fan of modern dance and a political junkie -- and having read a New York Times blurb that called this piece a must-see -- I really had high hopes for this work.
Instead, it struck me overall as a very slow, drawn-out, stripped-down, incredibly repetitious piece. I couldn't help but think that parts of it looked like early studio experiments or like something choreographers were doing 40 years ago. Also, it seemed to me that certain sections, while well intentioned, in some ways inadvertently trivialized the underlying political issues (police treatment of civil rights workers in the South in the '60s, for example).
NOTE: My review is based on the first 70 minutes of the piece, since I at that point finally had enough and clambered over three people in my row of seats to make my early escape -- something I've never done in my life, although I go to lots of live shows, many of them ones that some people would consider unorthodox (performance art, site-specific pieces, aerial art, fire shows, drag shows, burlesque shows). Having done so, I was following in the footsteps of a man elsewhere in my row who had beat a retreat about 20 minutes prior to my exit. I wouldn't be surprised if others also left early.
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Voyticky
I thought the first part of this piece was truly excellent. I found the second part to be rather tedious.Written on Oct 11 2010
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Description
Hailed as "one of the most adventurous artists working today" (Time Out New York), renowned interdisciplinary artist Ralph Lemon returns to YBCA with a groundbreaking multimedia project of epic — and intimate — proportions. Through live performance, a multimedia installation, film, video and an exhibition of objects, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores human connection, loss, and the elusive but ever-compelling possibility of grace.
The culmination of an eight-year collaboration with Walter Carter, a 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener from Bentonia, MS, How Can You Stay… reflects on the memories and futuristic dreams of life fully lived. Referencing Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovksy's sci-fi romance Solaris, Lemon's work brings footage of Carter's world into dialogue with a cast of dancers and actors whose turbulent movements push the boundaries of exhaustion, creating a visceral examination of what it means to be human.
About Ralph Lemon:
Lemon is the artistic director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation. Lemon's projects expand the definition of choreography by crossing and stretching the boundaries between Western post-modern dance and other art forms and cultures. For each project, Lemon builds a team of collaborating artists from diverse cultural, national, and artistic backgrounds who bring their own histories and aesthetic voices to the work. Projects develop organically over a period of years, with frequent public sharings of works-in-progress. Lemon and his collaborators derive the culminating artworks from the artistic, cultural, historic, and emotional material uncovered during this rigorous creative research process.