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COMPUTER CRASH!
Just as I was about to send the final version of my novel off to the publisher my computer crashed. My wonderful friend Mika allowed me to use hers for the day. But since I don’t know how long my laptop is going to have to spend in the hospital, blogging might be intermittent for…
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FALL FOR DANCE ’09 PROGRAM 2
Highlights of Program 2, which I saw last night, were Morphoses and Tangueros Del Sur. I was wandering around the lounge beforehand and ran into a couple of old friends from my first ballroom studio, Paul Pellicoro’s Dancesport. Always fun to catch up with old friends — especially since one of them…
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FALL FOR DANCE ’09 PROGRAM 1
I’m on a tight schedule with my book rewrites, but here are some of the highlights of the Fall For Dance Festival (Program 1) thus far. It’s always a delight to see Paul Taylor’s hilarious Offenbach Overtures with the would-be ballet dancers tripping all over each other, the muscly men first dueling then…
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FALL FOR DANCE BEGINS TONIGHT
Vishneva is dancing Fokine’s Dying Swan late in the festival. Tickets to all nights are all sold out but you can wait in line for returns beginning at 6:30 p.m. each night, and you can have some food and wine in the lounge while watching performances via video. Tomorrow night is the first Ballet Russes-focused…
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EXPERIMENTAL DAY
Last Thursday I spent the afternoon at the Tribeca Film Festival watching a series of intriguing experimental shorts (some far better than others of course), and the evening at Brooklyn Academy of Music watching Trisha Brown Dance Company, whose program included a couple of pieces that are experimental, or at least were when…
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Fall For Dance Finale
So, Fall For Dance wrapped up nicely; there were really no pieces on the last night’s program that I didn’t like. First on was the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of a Twyla Tharp dance I’d never seen, SWEET FIELDS, from 1996, which seemed to me a bit unlike her usual fare. It was…
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Last night of fall for dance
Last night of fall for dance Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile Having last cup of $2 wine in the lounge with Ariel sitting on these orange pillowy things that actually turned out to be rather comfy.
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Woo hoo, the orchestra pit!!
Woo hoo, the orchestra pit!! Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile The best night of Fall For Dance thus far, imo. 1) The Suzanne Farrell Ballet performing a little-known Balanchine work and appearing in New York for the very first time; 2) brilliant Modern dancer Talia Paz in a poignant, desperate,…
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Hula class in fall for dance lounge
Hula class in fall for dance lounge Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile You need rhythm to do this dance! It’s kind of samba-y. And, as the class went on, I realized it was kind of Hip Hop-py as well. Not what I was expecting. Fun but hard.
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At molyvos awaiting fall for dance
At molyvos awaiting fall for dance Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile What kind of person orders a second glass of wine during a Recession? Anyway, FFD was good / decent tonight. I especially liked: Houston Ballet’s production of Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux — wonderfully lively dancers (Sara Webb and Connor…