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Photos: Dan Deacon at the ICA

Dan Deacon, live at the Institute for Contemporary Art on June 12, 2009

By DAVID F. NICHOLSON AND ALEX SLATER | June 16, 2009

A giant game of Twister, during Dan Deacon's set at the Institute for Contemporary Art on June 12, 2009

Photo by Alex Slater

READ:Screaming from the gallery, Dan Deacon, live at the ICA. By Matt Parish

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Dynamos
The four pieces on the program that Philadanco brought for its Boston debut last weekend at the Institute for Contemporary Art were all-dance numbers showcasing a troupe of highly polished, supercharged dancers.
Phantoms and fantasy
Poetry and dance have some common traits.
Five artists address intimacy at MECA’s ICA
The largely performance-based offerings in "Mind-bending with the Mundane" inspect the confusing grayscale of modern relationships and family structures, addressing what contemporary domesticity looks like in a society of convenience and prerogative with diluted and outmoded institutions.
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Dynamos
The four pieces on the program that Philadanco brought for its Boston debut last weekend at the Institute for Contemporary Art were all-dance numbers showcasing a troupe of highly polished, supercharged dancers.
Phantoms and fantasy
Poetry and dance have some common traits.
Five artists address intimacy at MECA’s ICA
The largely performance-based offerings in "Mind-bending with the Mundane" inspect the confusing grayscale of modern relationships and family structures, addressing what contemporary domesticity looks like in a society of convenience and prerogative with diluted and outmoded institutions.
Screaming from the gallery
Last Friday night, Dan Deacon dug frantically through tangles of cables for one that might get a live signal out of the duct-taped pile of equipment in front of him. A fire truck and an ambulance, pulling up outside the windows behind him, filled the room with dueling strobes.
Blake babies
Nature is mysterious and mystical in "And the fair Moon rejoices" (at the BCA's Mills Gallery through August 16), as foreign as the wilds of New England probably seemed to its first English settlers. And maybe there are witches about.
Review: Shepard Fairey + Z-Trip + Chuck D
So Shepard Fairey actually made it this time. No insane, last-minute sting operations by Boston cops lurking just off the ICA’s property line. But also: no grand dramatics, either. (Like, he totally could have parachuted through a shattered skylight. In slow motion.) Fairey just showed up and did his thing.
Photos: Prefuse 73 at ICA
Photos of Prefuse 73 playing at the Institute of Contemporary Art
Photos: Black Moth Super Rainbow at ICA
Photos of Black Moth Super Rainbow's performance at the ICA
Photo: Damian Ortega at ICA
Photos of Damian Ortega's Do It Yourself show at the ICA
Sunday school
Ronald K. Brown’s flamboyant choreography comes with a big serving of spirituality.
Definitions
Boston Ballet’s artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, wants us to think of his company as utterly contemporary, but it’s a tricky balance to pull off.
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