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Writers Cake!
How sweet is this cake! Last night was the annual Writers Room party, where all the books published by Writers Room members throughout the past year are honored. The Writers Room of NYC, by the way, is the oldest and largest writers’ colony in the country. A membership gives you a quiet space in which…
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John Ashbery and Charles Wuorinen at Guggenheim
I guess the Brokeback Mountain opera (to be made by composer Charles Wuorinen) is on hold for the moment (hopefully, it’ll still happen eventually). But mainly over curiosity over the Brokeback-composer-to-be, I went to the Guggenheim recently for a Works & Process event celebrating Wuorinen’s 70th birthday. The first part of the program…
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Ailey Ascending
Am getting very excited about Alvin Ailey’s upcoming season at City Center (which is good because I’ve been a bit depressed lately about ABT‘s departure…) As part of Ailey’s 50th Anniversary celebration, there’s a new book out of photos of the dancers by one of my favorite dance photographers, Andrew Eccles. Eccles just seems…
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Gottlieb’s "Reading Dance"
Wow, this looks interesting. (Via Claudia)
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Guardian Angel, Chase Brock Experience, Three Movements, San Francisco Ballet, Cynthia Gregory, Doctor Atomic
Blah! I had a very strange dream last night in which this one basically told me in his own sweet way that I need to calm down and not stress over blogging like a mad fiend. I have no idea why Angel Corella was on my mind since, although my favorite ballet company…
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Of Pretzels and Pashminas
“When, in today’s ballet, you see a man express his feelings for his lady by hurling her into the air, catching her upside down, and wrapping her around his neck like a pashmina, you are seeing the legacy of the Bolshoi.” — this from Joan Acocella in her latest New Yorker article, analyzing Morphoses (whose…
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Just Arrived
in my most recent library request. Took a while too; it’s a popular book apparently. Review coming as soon as I can read it.
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Alexei Ratmansky Talks With Joan Acocella Tomorrow at New Yorker Festival
For some reason, The New Yorker didn’t much publicize this year’s festival, but thankfully I sat next to Brian Siebert, who writes about dance for that magazine, last night at Morphoses (more on that soon!) and he alerted me that the festival is this weekend, and that as part of it, Joan Acocella (the…
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HET!
I mentioned earlier that over Labor Day weekend I had a little Swan Lake marathon and became quite intrigued by the life of Tchaikovsky. I’m not sure exactly how that happened — I think it may have been because the video I saw of the Bolshoi version (from the late 50s) paid such homage…
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We Need More Artists On Whom You’ve No Choice But To Form an Opinion
Here’s a very nice collective tribute to writer David Foster Wallace. And here’s one literary agent’s homage. I was struck by one line of the agent’s in particular: “Whether you liked his work or not, he was at the very least the kind of writer you had no choice but to form an opinion…
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Free Books!
Mefears in the age of the internet, soon writers and artists won’t make any money at all from their work. Still, far better than people not reading at all, right? (I love his line about the tree in the forest and the writer’s silent scream, and his Fedoku story.) Anyway, some of these books…