Catherine Turocy goes for barocco

Dance
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Such a joy to meet Catherine Turocy, an awesome arts professional and a Baroque and Renaissance dance expert. She’s shown here dancing the Passacaille d’Armide. We took a saucy dance class with Catherine as part of her recent week-long residency in southern California. Normally based in Dallas (though she’s artistic director of The New York ...

Jack Cole, the camera’s eye, and the space of the soundstage

Dance · Film
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Cole was adept at using SPACE captured by the camera…he was able to push perspective further than any choreographer of his day, without 3-D glasses. So wrote Professor-Emerita Emma Lewis Thomas, in an email, concerning “The I Don’t Care Girl.” Lew, who knew Jack Cole as a fellow UCLA dance instructor, puts into words what ...