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8 September 2011

Eyman hits a bull’s eye; his “Empire of Dreams” wins prestigious theater book award

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Scott Eyman recognized for scholarship in his Cecil B. DeMille biography, “Empire of Dreams,” wins Theater Library Association’s “Richard Wall Memorial Award.” [...]

5 September 2011

The Juilliard School tells you everything you always wanted to know about Swan Lake but were afraid to ask

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Chico Marx famously queried: “Why a duck?” We rather wonder, “Why a swan?” [...]

13 August 2011

At Jacob’s Pillow, with dance writers

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Drawn to the Berkshires by an touching inter-generational mix of post-modern-dance artistry, it was a full house of dance writers at Jacob’s Pillow tonight. [...]

4 August 2011

Pillowtalk.2011 release

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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

Colonoscopy

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Why can’t museum curators write cogent titles for their shows? The pretentiousness starts with the exhibition title. [...]

12 July 2011

Elo elicits elevated illumination

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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.

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22 June 2011

Forget it, Jake, it’s China[town].

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. [Comments

18 June 2011

Mao & Gu: twins separated at birth?

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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

Jiaxing party animals. Yes, *that* Party.

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Greetings from Jaixing, historic home to the Party animal. [...]

29 May 2011

arts·meme reaches ripe age of three

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Happy Birthday little arts•meme, three years old. [...]