Tanz Farm, the performance art series presented at the Goat Farm Arts Center’s Goodson Yard, returns for a second season Friday, Nov. 1 through Nov. 3.
The first of four season “series” — including the performances, discussions and other events — features performances by Israeli dance-theater duo Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor and a sound installation by Canadian artist C.D. Howe.
Sheinfeld & Laor will be featured in the duet “Two Room Apartment,” a 1987 piece now considered a milestone of Israeli choreography. It’s a personal and political work that reflects on the dancers’ relationship as partners in life and as creators.
Performed in a simple dance language, “Apartment” examines boundaries in various contexts: from physical borders, such as between territories or between two rooms, to non-physical borders. Among the latter the dance suggests are the one between life and performance, and the boundaries that individuals set for themselves.
Curated by Lauri Stallings and Anthony Harper, the second season launches with a free conversation on performance at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Panelists include Atlanta arts writer Andrew Alexander; artists Aubrey-Longley Cook, Fahamu Pecou and Nathan Sharratt; Andy Ditzler and Joey Orr of the “idea collective” John Q; and art historian Diana McClintock.
Tanz Farm’s remaining series:
- Dec. 12-14: contemporary dance with Sidra Bell/NY and Stallings with GloATL.
- March 27-30, 2014: Austin McCormick/Company XIV of New York, presenting a fusion of dance, theater, opera and circus.
- May 22-24, 2014: Gustavo Ramirez Sansano of Spain and Catellier Dance Projects of Atlanta in a program mixing performance and modern dance.
Tickets for Series 1 shows, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 7 p.m. Nov. 3, are $25, $15 artists and students. 1200 Foster St., Atlanta. www.tanzfarm.com.
FILM
Walker documentary at BronzeLens
The BronzeLens Film Festival will expand to five days for this year’s edition, Nov. 6-10, with highlights including a showing of Pratibha Parmar’s “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.”
Parmar’s portrait of the author-activist will be screened at 6 p.m. Nov. 6 at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts (349 Ferst Drive N.W., Atlanta). Walker and Parmar will participate in a post-screening talk moderated by Valerie Boyd, editor of a recently announced collection from Walker’s diaries expected in 2017, “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire.”
Tickets, $25, via www.blff2013alice.eventbrite.com.
Other screenings to be shown at various venues include Nelson George’s “Finding the Funk,” “Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley,” “Steve Harvey’s Grand Finale” and “The Best Man Holiday,” a comedy with Terrence Howard and Sanaa Lathan.
BronzeLens also will present a slate of panels, workshops and other film events. Details: www.bronzelensfilmfestival.com.
ARTS
$50,000 grant to empower artists
C4 Atlanta Inc., a non-profit Atlanta organization that helps artists build careers, has been awarded a two-year, $50,000 grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
Part of the Tremaine Foundation’s Marketplace Empowerment for Artists program, the grant will support Ignite, an eight-week training seminar that helps artists build sustainable businesses around their creative offerings.
C4 also has announced the appointment of Deborah Sosower to the new job of program manager, to support and expand its professional development service offerings for artists. Sosower, one of WonderRoot art center’s inaugural Walthall Fellows in 2012-13, has exhibited locally and nationally.
New editor for Art Papers
Victoria Camblin has been named editor-artistic director of Art Papers, the 37-year-old Atlanta-based art magazine, website and presenter of public programming. Camblin is completing her doctorate in the art history at the University of Cambridge in England and will assume her role for Art Papers’ March-April 2014 issue.
“We are poised for dramatic change and growth that includes a new look for the publication, creation of a dynamic online presence and new educational programs for writers and artists,” executive director Saskia Benjamin said.
BOOKS
High toasts author Rayner
The High Museum of Art is hosting a private a cocktail reception and book signing on Oct. 27 to help launch “Notes and Sketches: Travel Journals of William P. Rayner” (Glitterati, $150). The two-volume, slipcased set compiles musings, paintings, menus, wine labels and other memorabilia from more three decades of globetrotting.
A New Yorker, Rayner is a painter and journalist who served as a Conde Nast Publications executive and has written for publications including Vogue and Vanity Fair. He is married to Katharine Rayner, eldest daughter of High patron Anne Cox Chambers.
