4 August 2011  One of my most pleasurable duties as a resident scholar at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival over the next two weeks is participating in the “Online Dancing” Pillow Talk Saturday, August 13. It will feature four tweeting, facebooking, blogging internet ladies who will chat, chew and masticate on the state of dance on the internet. [...] 1 August 2011  Why can’t museum curators write cogent titles for their shows? The pretentiousness starts with the exhibition title. [...] 12 July 2011  Very pleased that HuffPo arts page found the tale of Jorma Elo, the Finnish-born freelance choreographer who’s about to premiere a new work commissioned for the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, sufficiently newsworthy to grant banner headline status ! Read it here. [...] 22 June 2011 Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown. That was my mantra on the recent China trip. At least once a day, there was good reason to say it. Not one of the 20-something dancers I was with knew the reference. [...] 18 June 2011  Watching the nightly propaganda program, “The Founding of the Party” made me curious about Mao’s famous line spoken at Tiananmen Square. [...] 10 June 2011  Greetings from Jaixing, historic home to the Party animal. [...] 29 May 2011  Happy Birthday little arts•meme, three years old. [...] 9 May 2011  Arts editor Kimberly Brooks makes wonderful banner headlines for her page. [...] 28 April 2011  There is something for everyone in the saga of Harry Houdini, the Budapest-born, Appleton, Wisconsin-raised obsessed son of a Rabbi. [...] 1 February 2011  “Balanchine was rather reserved,” noted Barbara Horgan, the choreographer’s longtime assistant. “But he adored Lorenz Hart [the troubled but brilliant lyricist of Rogers & Hart songwriting team].” [...] | |
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