I Raised Her I did not deliberate for days and days over what would be my baby’s name while she kicked, tossed and turned, then slept in my womb while I caressed her through the skin of my belly, comforted I could protect her because she and I were still part of the same form, …
Now entering its 4thyear, Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival (D2D) is also the home of a new initiative: #DANCEFORAOC! The voice of a new generation, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) is up for re-election and faces challengers on both sides of the aisle. D2D just launched #DANCEFORAOC – MOVEMENT CREATES MOVEMENT— a social media dance campaign to raise awareness for ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ’ upcoming bid for …
This week more glimmers as SoCal dance shows signs of life onstage sans audience, live-streamed new work and reimagined classics, plus scheduled performances no longer cancelled, just postponed until theaters shift from paused to open. On the sad notes: Diavolo is cancelled at Beverly Hills’ Annenberg Center and Los Angeles Ballet at UCLA’s Royce Hall …
When I need comfort, I turn to the countenance of Congressman John Lewis. This is one of those times. I could make a list of names and souls who have been stolen from our presence, from those who love them, from those of us who inhale the pain of distortion, discrimination, outright murder and racism …
It seems to me dance is needed more urgently than ever these days. What language is there that is more universal, more visceral, and more immediate with which to try to make sense of the senseless violence and violations happening in our world today? How else do we respond when there is a deluge of …
Tango 1. She stands in the center of the floor, eyes liquid with anticipation, a twitch of confidence in the left corner of her luscious lips, spirals of dark hair skim her shoulders, black slender dress with a layer of red at her chest. The music begins. Black shirt, red tie, he walks toward her …
She studied ballet in Paris until her Jewish family fled the Nazis, first to Portugal then to Brazil, and then to New York. After WWII, she traveled between the U.S. and Paris, studying Antonin Artaud’s provocative, assaultive theatre of shock and then falling into the ambit of John Cage and Merce Cunningham. She was deeply influenced …
Reviewing works of contemporary architecture photographed fifty years ago raises an important question: What is the meaning of these works for the reinvention of the post-pandemic 2020s? I see a parallel between our time and the 1960s. It was a tumultuous decade: the protests against the Vietnam war became global, the women’s liberation movement entered …
« La belle noiseuse » That was the title of a film featuring the late Michel Piccoli in the role of an aging painter seeking to complete his magnum opus, or what he called his “first posthumous painting” to his gallerist. La belle noiseuse, or the bothersome beauty, was initially the model who became his wife. In …
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