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March 1, 2007 at 2:14 pm · Filed under music, culture, picks, TONY, dancing
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| Posted by Tony Schultz
Its been pretty quiet here on The Winger and in the dance blogosphere as a whole. Folks must be busy dancing or something. Go figure. Since I am tired of seeing my old post up there thought I would do some curating. This week I present to you two of my favorite videos.
The first video is Who’s Yehudi, song written in 1940 by Bill Seckler and Matt Dennis. The vocalist in this 1943 soundie is Lane Truesdale and completely mesmerizing. Despite the mildly anti-semitic depiction of Yehudi this video is really great. So Wingers, here is the million dollar question…who is Yehudi?
The second dance is A Jazz Etude danced by Billy Burt. This 1941 soundie has cool staging and amazing dancing. The music is really good too.
Both of these dance videos are Public Domain which makes showing them online completely legal. I am really glad nobody owns these. Otherwise I would probably never have seen them and definitely would not be able to share them with you. Two more points for open source media.
Download the ipod compatible formats of Who’s Yehudi and A Jazz Etude.
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September 27, 2006 at 5:26 pm · Filed under dance, dance event, recommendations, GIA, picks, GIA PICKS, brooklyn, bam
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Sarah Michelson is my absolute favorite choreographer—she makes her BAM debut with “Dogs,” a work that I know little about (that’s the way she likes it) but have been looking forward to for years. Her work is rigorous and daring, conventionally and unconventionally beautiful, and full of rigor. This will be her last dance, I fear, so please, please go.
www.bam.org
Oct 18–21 at 7:30pm.
$20–$40.
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September 1, 2006 at 5:15 pm · Filed under dance, dance event, recommendations, picks, GIA PICKS
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Trisha Brown Dance Company
Evening Stars, Battery Park
Sept 8 at 7:30, Free
I have one more Evening Stars show to recommend—Trisha Brown Dance Company is presenting “Geometry of Quiet,” a spare, beautiful work from 2002 set to music by Salvatore Sciarrino. The rest of the program feels like a cheeseball family-tree gimmick to me (there’s a dance by Stephen Petronio, who danced with Brown; and Ashleigh Leite, who danced with Petronio), but Brown is someone to worship (www.trishabrowncompany.org). Try to go…
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September 1, 2006 at 4:57 pm · Filed under dance, dance event, culture, events, recommendations, GIA, picks, GIA PICKS, brooklyn, 3rd ward
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AMBUSH
3rd Ward
Saturday 9 at 8pm, $5
Chez Bushwick—an inspiring Brooklyn organization devoted to contemporary dance and performance–hosts the first installment of a new series, AMBUSH. This is the deal: the show, always with different guests, will be held at different Bushwick spaces over the next nine month. The first, this Saturday, will be held at 3rd Ward.
The program includes new dance by Elke Rindfleisch and Wanjiru Kamuyu; video by Bruce Nauman; solo trombone by Jim Staley; and readings to honor John Cage’s birthday by David Vaughan, Michael Cole and Jonah Bokaer. Carla Peterson, who was just appointed artistic director to Dance Theater Workshop (and formerly of Movement Research—you’ll see her at Judson), will be interviewed.
The show itself can be a crapshoot, but it’s casual, almost like a salon. This one is probably worth it for Peterson alone. And you can drink beer and wine, hurrah!
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August 29, 2006 at 9:27 pm · Filed under dance event, recommendations, GIA, picks, GIA PICKS, judson church, movement research
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Movement Research at the Judson Church
Every Monday beginning September 25 at 8pm; Free
www.movementresearch.org
Judson Memorial Church—the site of the legendary Judson Dance Theater performances of the ’60s—hosts an artist-curated weekly event by Movement Research, a wonderful downtown organization focused on experimental dance.
Don’t be scared. Just go to Judson on Mondays—it’s casual and lively and even though the dances are generally works-in-progress, it’s never dull.
Opening night features the excellent Deborah Hay, an actual Judson choreographer, and Juliette Mapp, who has danced with her (along with John Jasperse, Vicky Shick and more) and is currently obsessed with war. As in the horror and ridiculousness of it.
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August 29, 2006 at 8:57 pm · Filed under ballet, dance, dance event, recommendations, GIA, picks
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Kansas City Ballet: “The Catherine Wheel Suite”
September 6 at 7:30pm. Free.
www.rivertorivernyc.com
Artistic director William Whitener is a former Twyla Tharp dancer who recently staged the Joffrey’s revival of “Deuce Coupe,” Tharp’s groundbreaking work set to the Beach Boys. The company makes its New York debut at Evening Stars with three works, including Tharp’s “The Catherine Wheel Suite,” a reworking of her 1981 full-evening collaboration with David Byrne, “The Catherine Wheel.” While many companies perform “The Golden Section” from “Wheel” (as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will do in December), Whitener’s new version also features “Dinosaur” and “Cloud Chamber” and has never been seen.
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