‘Dance Masters’ Chakiris & Chase in ‘An Evening at the Barn’
Two great dancers. Two beautiful people. Both with Los Angeles dance roots. Both gypsy dancers in the great decade of movie-musicals, the 1950s. Between them, their titles include: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, There’s No Business Like Show Business, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Meet Me in Las Vegas, The I Don’t Care Girl, Daddy Long ...
Lichtenstein’s lingerings in Los Angeles
Nov
29
2016
Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A., an art exhibit now running at The Skirball Center through next March, explores how the artist, a vanguard of the Pop Art movement buoyed by a renaissance in printmaking, made fine art accessible to the American public in ways that had not been achieved before. The Skirball ...
Dance on, three nymphs, at Hollyhock House!
Don’t these girls deserve a rest? Apparently not! We recently announced the joyful homecoming of a reaaaaally old work of art — a first-century Roman bas relief still in stunning condition. A high-tech replication of an original tableau of three dancing girls lives once more on Olive Hill, a hilltop retreat dedicated to the arts ...
Aline’s nymphs to prance once more on Olive Hill
It’s the thing I most love, except for my relatives. I need this marble when I arrive home from a day of shopping or business. And I recover immediately when I look at those three maidens. They sooth me with their rhythm, that balance of movement, so charming, so pitre … This marble is already ...
Martha Graham Dance Company dances for Haiti
Nov
16
2016
The Martha Graham Dance Company was scheduled to perform in Haiti at the end of October 2016, but the devastation caused by Hurricane Mathew earlier in the month postponed the performance. The Graham Company dancers decided to take action and help Haiti. Viewers can attend a live benefit performance at the company’s Westbeth studios or for ...
All is golden in the Golden Nautilus, says Catherine Turocy
The structure of the Nautilus is considered sacred geometry, the Golden Mean, represented by the Greek letter phi, one of the mysterious natural numbers that seems to arise from the basic structure of our cosmos. “Baroque Dance and the Golden Nautilus” is a lecture/performance by Baroque expert Catherine Turocy. The artistic director of the New ...
Pasta & moving pictures: Cinema Italian Style 2016
Nov
11
2016
It’s that time again … for the cinema of charisma and Chianti. Now in its 12th annual edition, Cinema Italian Style, a joint festival hosted in tandem by a whole roster of Italian movie-loving people — American Cinematheque and Luce Cinecittà, under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, ...
Chita Rivera conquers Carnegie Hall
Holding court in her Carnegie Hall debut Monday evening, Broadway legend Chita Rivera gave gobs of pleasure and a pre-election-day boost to a very well-sold house. Prior to the show, a good many attendees swarmed the 57th Street sidewalk in anticipation of a special evening. In a solo showcase that got by with a little ...
Learn to do this, New Yorkers! Study tango with greats.
Nov
8
2016
Tango seminars with masters of the form, Gabriel Misse and Carla Esponza, seen in video. A tango exhibition that is spectacular, silken, so controlled. Friday November 11, 7-10 pm Saturday November 12, 4:30-7:30 pm Sunday November 13, 5-8PM Friday November 18, 7-10 pm Saturday November 19, 4:30-7:30 pm Sunday November 20, 5-8 pm A course ...
Keep pouring ballet cocktails, ‘Ballets With A Twist’
Nov
7
2016
I’m a fan of the dance invention — and entrepreneurialism — of choreographer Marilyn Klaus. Her company, Ballets with a Twist, performs in all kinds of unexpected venues — small-to-medium-sized performing arts centers across the nation, and even lounges, cabarets, and soon, casinos. Her customized dance menus, packaged as “Cocktail Hour: The Show,” comprise 24 ...