“Twenty years ago tomorrow, the Berlin Wall came down. The [New York Times] Op-Ed editors asked nine poets – Eastern European, American, Russian and German – to write new works inspired by that event.”
Tag: 11.08.09
Merce’s Work, Without Merce
“By outlining ways in which his dances might be conserved without the dance company for which they were created, Cunningham … introduced a forward-looking program for modern-dance professionals, who have always focused on the here and now. … But can Cunningham’s scheme really be carried out? Can the dancers and the dances be disentwined?”
The Berkeley-fication Of Sesame Street
Alessandra Stanley: “Forty years on, this is your mother’s Sesame Street, only better dressed and gentrified: … The famous set, brownstones and garbage bins, has lost the messy graffiti and gritty smudges of city life over the years. Now there are green spaces, tofu and yoga.”