Posted on 12/20/2016 5:35:48 AM PST by pabianice
Actors in federally funded show yell and run at sheep in field for 'postmodern dance'
The National Endowment for the Arts is spending $30,000 for a series of dance performances, including Doggie Hamlet...
The “conceptual art” features actors yelling and running at sheep in a field in Vermont. Dartmouth College received the funding in the latest round of NEA grants released this month...
Doggie Hamlet involves several actors joining in a field to scare sheep and walk around wearing sheepskins...
“Doggie Hamlet is a full-length outdoor performance spectacle that weaves dance, music, visual and theatrical elements with aspects from competitive sheep herding trials,” writes Elsie Management, a firm that promotes the performing arts. “The work is performed by four dancers, one boy, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs and a flock of sheep in a 30 x 50 foot fenced field.”
“Doggie Hamlet recalls the bucolic impression of a landscape painting or a 3D pastoral poem,” the group said. “The sheep, the dogs, the human performers, and the earth’s surface are at once performing as themselves and as living symbols in this work.”
“Through story, motion, site and stillness Doggie Hamlet explores instinct, sentience, attachment, and loss, and is a beautiful and dreamlike spectacle weaving instinct, mystery, and movement into an unusual performance event,” the group concluded...
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
$30,000 will house and feed 17 Ameritrash actors for a year
PETA will not be very happy
[latest round of NEA grants released this month]
Put the NEA on the chopping block. Drain the swamp.
Maybe they’d pay me for a commentary on belly button fuzz picking.
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