July 16th, 2009
New York’s Wooster Group
Five-star New York hotels offer the finest accommodations in the world’s greatest city. There is a long history of accommodation here, enough so that New York is one of the places that sets the gold standard for hospitality and service. This means that not only are guests treated to the finest lodgings that meet the highest industry standards, but also have access to a staff that knows that city inside and out. The enormous diversity of cultures here bring their culinary traditions to the city, which has some of the finest restaurants in the world. Guests at our hotels are treated to cuisines prepared by top chefs who know a huge range of gastronomical trends, both traditional and contemporary. The good life is here, and the whole world is right outside the door.
The cultural scene in New York is always a step ahead of everywhere else, and for this reason it attracts some of the best intellects, financiers, and artists in the world. There is perhaps no better place for star-gazing and people-watching. One of the world’s most acclaimed theatrical groups, The Wooster Group is here. They are, it is easy to argue, the world’s most accomplished avant-garde performance company. Their productions are always a mind-blowing barrage of sounds and images, where classical texts are taken apart and reconstructed with state of the art technologies, and an extremely adept group of performers. Their home is an unassuming Soho space, the Performing Garage, where their new works are developed in phases before they tour the rest of the world.
Elizabeth LeCompte began this particular story with Spaulding Gray in 1975, when they decided to branch off of Richard Schechner’s Performance Group, and start doing their own work. In the three plus decades of the Wooster Group’s subsequent years, they have created some of the most interesting and controversial works of world theatre. With such illustrious members as Ron Vawter, Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, and Willem Defoe, they have developed a style of performance that is uniquely their own, and very widely imitated. Always under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, their sublime live performance work is developed in conjunction with some of the most influential designers, technicians, and musicians working in their fields. Always challenging, always risky, and often extremely funny, this is an international act that could only happen in New York.
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