Attention Art Goths!

I just ran across this event coming up in Portland on March 13th: You've got yer Nick Cave music and your Sydney Dance Company modern dancers and you mush it all up with costumes by Imitation of Christ and that's what you've got. Remember that it's Friday the 13th that's unlucky, not Tuesday. Here's a really over-compressed short video about the show.

Some of the songs included in the program are: Wild World, Mercy Seat, The Carny, The Weeping Song, The Ship Song, Stagger Lee, and Death is Not the End. The dance opens with a reading from his novel, "And The Ass Saw The Angel."

Songs Least Likely to Appear In A Nick Cave Dance Program: Scum, 6" Gold Blade, and Little Empty Boat.

Postscript: Wow, was I wrong about not using Stagger Lee in the program! When it started as a very intense, Apache-style duet between the brute and the maiden, and the first F-bomb dropped in, I heard the row of nice fifty-year old ladies in front of me take in breath sharply, and I thought, "wait until we get to the line about crawling over fifty good p*ssies to get to a fat boy's assh*le." A couple disgruntled ballet fans walked out, but I think the fifteen year old dance students were pretty psyched about a getting to hear a filthy dirty song.
My review of the ballet is a million, jillion gold stars, flecked lightly with blood. It was so super, I can't tell you. If you hear about it coming through your town, I highly recommend it.

Oh, and any Nick Cave fans should know that the album by his new project, Grinderman, will be available on April 10th, and the website has a nice monkey animation on it.