Thank you, Turner Classic Movies, for “Choreography by Jack Cole”

12 September 2012

Thank you, Turner Classic Movies, for “Choreography by Jack Cole”

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: betty grable, choreography by jack cole, down boy, hollywood history, jack cole, tcm, three for the show, turner classic movies, wendy perron

Betty Grable and Cole onset for the film Three for the Show. Photo from DM Archives.

An historic cultural moment occurred Monday, September 10, 2012, when Turner Classic Movies (TCM) gave a marvelous jolt to the recently revived interest in Jack Cole – a full evening tribute to the talented choreographer. [...]

13 August 2011

At Jacob’s Pillow, with dance writers

Category: Dance, Language & ideas | Tags: david neumann, deborah jowitt, jodi melnick, marcia b. siegel, trisha brown, wendy perron

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. [...]

20 February 2011

James Dean, moody, on location in Griffith Park

Category: Architecture & Design, Film | Tags: daniel paul, griffith park observatory, hollywood history, james dean, marc wanamaker, rebel without a cause, wendy perron

A yummy new book “Location Filming in Los Angeles,” written by arts·meme pal, Marc Wanamaker in collaboration with Karie Bible and Harry Medved, provides a delicious historic photo-tour of location shooting all around our fair city, including a rare shot of James Dean, filming “Rebel Without a Cause.” [...]

29 October 2010

Ballet is dead. Long live ballet.

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: anna pavlova, black swan, darren aronofsky, jennifer homans, wendy perron

The lack of direction in the dance world has grown so dire that dance writers are scribbling what was previously unimaginable. Essays with titles like: “Is Ballet Over?” Other writers, however, are pushing back. [...]