America, choose your old guy 2
Aug
31
2012
Last night was a tough choice. Very, very hard. Whether to watch Clint Eastwood address the Republican National Convention saying things like “We own this country” (watching the RNC makes me want to cash out), versus a quick drive to the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park where the groovy, happening reggae singer, Don Carlos, a ...
Robert Osborne asks: “Why did Jack Cole fade away?” 2
A sample from “Choreography by Jack Cole” to be broadcast Monday September 10 (8 pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific) on Turner Classic Movies.
Dance Heritage Coalition unveils “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures” online
Aug
28
2012
The Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) has launched a tremendous new online exhibition, America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100. Newly commissioned essays, bibliographies and research resources, and curated visual materials are included. Here’s but a brief sampling: Anna Schuman Halprin is one of the “founding mothers” of the American avant-garde in modern dance. Beginning with ...
Preview! Jack Cole honored on Turner Classic Movies September 10 4
Read the story on the Turner Classic Movies website.
Keith Glassman & Dancers in the shadow of LAX
Aug
22
2012
The West Los Angeles sky was grey, low-hanging, and pregnant with jets on airport take-offs and approaches. Into this weird netherworld Keith Glassman set loose a tribe of good movers in a ramp-and-rooftop dance exploration last Friday evening. The event was produced by former Merce Cunningham dancer Jim Self and “Pak” Trules. As airplanes trolled ...
Heart of pulp: Sam Fuller centenary retrospective @ the Aero
Aug
22
2012
A nice note from our friends at Larry Edmunds Bookshop: August 12 marked what would have been the 100th birthday for one of the most influential and interesting filmmakers out there, Mr. Sam Fuller. His life , so full of adventures before he ever thought of directing, makes his autobiography, “A Third Face” a fantastic, ...
Welcome to Los Angeles, Ido Tadmor
Aug
17
2012
The renowned Israeli choreographer Ido Tadmor will visit Los Angeles next week for performances and workshops.
Not ladies who lunch, but women who write
Aug
15
2012
Two upcoming events celebrate the literary ladies. The first is a reading on Sunday at Alias Books East of a new ebook Anaïs Nin: The Last Days. The author, Barbara Kraft, knew both Anais Nin and Henry Miller in LA at the end of their lives, independently of one another. Anaïs Nin, noted for her ...
An actress & her dance coach
Two utterly amazing human beings, beautiful people, professional collaborators, and personal friends. He wielded enormous influence on her screen persona and on her career. This photo represents, for me, a most delirious encounter between dance and film worlds; nothing from Astaire or Kelly however great, speaks [to me] as powerfully. Here we have Jack Cole, ...
“Yidishe Glik” at the Arbeter Ring/Worksmen’s Circle
Aug
11
2012
In “Yidishe Glik”, Shloyme Mikhoels (1890 – 1948), the great Yiddish actor/orator and head of the Moscow Jewish State Theater, is a master of pantomime and “attains the summit of ethnic Jewish dandyism.” (Osip Mandelstam writing in a Leningrad newspaper, 1925 – as quoted in Bridge of Light by J. Hoberman)