Come and Jump for Art - at MoMA Tonight!
(Art Jumping at the National Portrait Gallery…)
Tonight marks the first night that MoMA begins their MoMA Monday Nights, where once a month, the museum is open until 8:45PM (as opposed to the usual 5:30 closing time).
At the first of these Monday Nights, there will be a scheduled ART JUMP.
Blogger Allison Reimus started the idea of Jumping in Art Museums and will be hosting this big group jump in front of the Pipilotti Rist exhibit on the second floor atrium Tonight at 6:30PM.
More on the Pipilotti Rist exhibit below:
Let’s lend some of our unique jumping skills to the Art Jumping cause!
Hope to see you there!
Winger Contributor Justin Peck at Frederiksborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
Monday, December 8
6:30 PM
ART JUMP @ MoMA
at MoMA’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor (Pipilotti Rist exhibit)
East 53rd Street between 5th and 6th aves.
MoMA admission - $20 (first 600 get a free day pass)
A second LIFE
LIFE INTERNATIONAL cover 08-23-1965
Choreographer George Balanchine & dancer Suzanne Farrell in costume for the ballet “Don Quixote”
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Google has been working on digitizing LIFE magazine’s incredible image archive, and will be using those images to further populate their Image Search engine.
A quick search for ballet yields incredible results… Performance photos, studio photos, tour photos, backstage photos… Images I’ve never seen before, iconic people and places, a new (to me) perspective…
Dancer Tanaquil LeClercq performing “La Valse” at Gjon Mili’s studio.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1951
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Dancer Tanaquil LeClercq performing portion of “Bouree Fantasque” at Gjon Mili’s studio.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1951
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Multiple image of choreographer Martha Graham performing her own work,”Punch and Judy”, in Mili Studio.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Check it out, I’m sure you’ll find things you never would have expected, on any topic you can image - and they are supposedly only 1/5th of the way through digitizing! The related images work fantastically well too. (via VSL)
Also, apparently Gjon Mili was also The Winger of the 70’s… 
Gjon Mili photographing New York City Ballet cast members backstage at performance of “Pulcinella” for the Stravinsky Festival at the New York State Theater (no caps).
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1972
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Stravinsky Festival
Gjon Mili (C) photographing George Balanchine & unident. ballerina backstage at NYC Ballet during the Stravinsky Festival at the New York State Theater (no caps).
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1972
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Thank you David H. Koch
David and Julia Koch receive a traditional vodka toast, from Lincoln Kirstein’s seats, at the Opening Night of New York City Ballet at the newly christened David H. Koch theater. Thank you to the Koch family for breathing new life into this beautiful Philip Johnson-designed house!
Ballet = Sport
Dominique Dawes, from the photo essay/audio slideshow by Bess Greenberg - I love this one
Ballet (and baby blue) in the Sports section of the NY Times - alongside BMX racers, gymnasts, snowboarders, and rock climbers - in a photo essay by Bess Greenberg about current and retired athletes and their outside interests.
Bess shot these on a massive, old 8×10 camera, into which she had to slide an individual film sheet for every shot.
Very honored to have made the cut.
Jeff Koons at Versailles
Just a brief post with a couple photos from the Jeff Koons exhibit at Versailles…
(I’m in Paris for a few weeks working on a video project on NYC Ballet’s tour here.)
Hearing the tourists who weren’t expecting the exhibit go on and on about how inappropriate it was, was almost as fun as viewing it.
summer stages (supersize)
Found out about the ‘mystery stage’ from my last post (see odd pic in my previous entry by clicking POSTS beside my exquisite face just above) . Anyway, I read yesterday that the huge curtain displayed outdoors in Stuttgart’s Schlossplatz is set to be recorded as the world’s largest theatre curtain. The immense curtain’s story and stats are set to go into record books this year.
But are the wings of this temporary monument big enough to hold the ever-growing WINGER fan-base and family that are currently spilling out onto stages across the globe? Perhaps not, thanks to Kristin Sloan’s once unique and original idea and this site’s conception back in 2005! It’s STILL an unrivaled platform that connects audiences with a vivid variety of very different artists! 
Have a nice weekend!
Damien and Mo Rocca
Former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Damien Woetzel gives Mo Rocca a ballet lesson, and together they make a new ballet about WMD….. or cookies.
MR: “Do you think if our world leaders studied dance, there’d be greater peace in the world?”
DW: “I do think the ability to waltz, is very conducive to being even-tempered.”
Roots of Breakdance?
First of all… how amazing is the dancing in this video? Second of all - it does seem a lot like breakdance style, no? (fyi, the title is from YouTube, not me).
The next video is a remix/video response to different music, which seems to work just as well, if not better….
I love how different music (and sometimes a little editing) can completely change a work.
Here’s the “original”…
Palisades IMAX
Dark knight sold out all weekend. What was the last movie you couldn’t see no matter how badly you wanted to?
Between this, the lines for the iPhone 3G, and the fact that it’s almost impossible to get a Wii Fit… argh!
