Carla Maxwell: “José would sometimes tell people that we just use every day things like walking, falling and turning. … The technique itself can look very lyric, but it’s really a rhythmically-based, dramatically-oriented technique. It’s also action-oriented. It’s not movement for movement’s sake ever. There’s always an objective.”
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How Nasty Was Tracy Morgan’s Melbourne Stand-Up Routine?
“This is an unpleasant, graphic, charmless 45-minute tirade – brevity being a rare redeeming feature – sharing his baser instincts in putrid detail, and very little humour.” Reviewer Steve Bennett provides some excerpts that we’ll call … unappetizing.
Trying To Preserve Hong Kong’s One Real Homegrown High Art Form
Cantonese opera – distinct from its Beijing and Kunqu counterparts – is hanging on, but only just.
Bette Midler Has Stage Fright?? Yes, Of A Sort
“She has been approached about returning to Broadway before, including for a revival of the musical Mame, but she said she had been afraid of the rigors of the spotlight – eight performances a week, as a character, required real technique, stamina and confidence in the face of audience assumptions about her abilities.”
Dancing About Neurology: Bill T. Jones Does Oliver Sacks
Jones’s New York Live Arts is presenting a festival of works inspired by Sacks’s books and case studies. As the doctor says, “Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.”
All You Can Read: A Subscription Service For Books
“Waterstone’s Read Petite would give readers unlimited access to available book for a few bucks a month. The service will launch this fall, and it will be interesting to see how it is received by readers and, more importantly, publishers.”
How To Pick Wood For A Violin
“Up in these mountains, they grow so slowly sometimes they stop growing altogether. They just gather strength. There are trees up here that are a thousand years old.”
Esther Rabinowitz: 50 Years Of Teaching Dance
“She left her job as an X-ray technician to teach dancing at the local Y.M.H.A. and became a hit at rehabilitation centers and nursing homes. She taught “Dancing Under the Stars” on the boardwalk for years.”
‘No Animal Was Harmed,’ Depending On What You Mean By, You Know, ‘Harmed’
Some say the humane association’s “resources and authority are too limited in an era that has brought the proliferation of smaller productions — like indie films, cable TV and even Internet productions — as well as a sharp rise in public expectations regarding animal safety”
Dance, 10; Staging, 3
“The issue is about prominence. So often this season, even when dancers are given meaty choreography or classic moments, they are upstaged, drowned out or stunted.”