Paul Bartlett

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About Paul Bartlett

Interviews "What I've seen of the data is troubling," said Paul Bartlett, an expert on dioxins and PCBs at Queens College."Their detection limits are aimed at threshold levels for occupational exposure. They aren't treating this as a disaster so they're not asking to what extent and how far are people being exposed or who is possibly being affected by the release of chemicals. They're just checking what emissions are exceeding regulations."- M.Ellison Guardian, 10-27-01 Paul Bartlett. agrees that some sort of “emergency designation” for the whole area could help ensure health and safety, and perhaps institute an effective health-tracking system to follow the area’s public health. As it is now, he charges, “the kind of environmental monitoring we’re getting from EPA and other agencies doesn’t adequately measure contaminants.” - F.Lyman MSNBC 1/1/02 Arts Paul Bartlett, who draws on Butoh in his own performances, said, “It was very hard for me to understand what Butoh was when I first got exposed to it.” He is a producer of Tompkins Scare Park, a Halloween celebration this Saturday that will include Butoh workshops for children. “It’s hard to talk about it,” he said, “and I think that’s why it’s a great art: you can’t just tell someone what Butoh is.” - Interview by Claudia La Rocco, NY Times 10-22-06 ''The avant-garde is not finished,'' said Paul Bartlett, one of the event's producers.''Surrealism, Dada, Butoh - these are experimental forms that try to figure out who we are as a people.''-Claudia La Rocco, Butoh Meets East Village, NY Times 8-26-05 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E2D91E3EF935A1575BC0A9639C8B63 "Performance with humor can disarm fear. When we laugh, we can listen, we can learn. Our audiences are not passive; we engage them. When people participate in a play, opportunities for new perspectives and transformation emerge."- Interview by Alexis Soloski, Village Voice.