Something a little dreamy…

Thanks for sharing this Giselle Minoli​ it has three of my all time favorite people, Baryshnikov, Tharp, and Sinatra; and a fourth favorite for the song by Johnny Mercer: One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)” is a hit song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky’s the Limit (1943)

I had the pleasure of meeting Baryshnikov once many years ago when I was on tour doing lighting for The Ballet Trocadero de Monte Carlo (“The Trocs”).

We were performing in San Francisco and he came into the theatre to ask me if he could do his daily warm up exercises with our dancers. Needless to say they were thrilled to work out with him.

The following day I was flying to NY to connect to a flight to St. Thomas to do the advance lighting focus for our next performance and by coincidence he was on the same flight and were wound up sitting next to each other and had a wonderful conversation about lighting dance. It made a otherwise long tiresome trip totally delightful.

Bravo

Thank you I have had season theatre for a few years and seeing this reminds me I will never stop loving music, dancing and theater.

Dregme

Indeed Barbara Branch stuart richman is one interesting man, who has had an interesting life doing many creative and interesting things. So often when I post about something, he will surprise me/us with stories and anecdotes like these, many of them having to do with theatre, music, film, creative and artistic things because of his work in lighting.

I love the free associations that happen when stuart richman tunes into a creative post! I saw him dance Afternoon of a Faun, Stuart, and also some of the Twyla pieces. I think he is extraordinary and was an underrated and under-appreciated actor. When Gregory Hines died the first thing I thought about was Baryshnikov and what he might be thinking.

Baryshnikov is to male dancers and their willingness to branch out, to explore, to deviate from their training, what Wendy Whelan and Misty Copeland are now for female dancers. What he has given the dance world is immeasurable.

As for Frank, well, he was my mother’s favorite and it was her early influence and watching her face when he sang that taught me to listen carefully to his phrasing. I didn’t even understand what that was at the time, but over the years his skill at moving words through the soul on the wings of the breath, like Streisand’s, have inspired me in ways too numerous to mention. 

These collaborations between creative souls are a gift. One more for the road…

I still wish that Google+ would figure out a way to let us post videos within videos. It would be fun on a post like this to allow people to free-associate with their own favorite dances. I can dream, can’t I?

Thank you stuart richman. I hope you (and everyone else) had a lovely Labor Day weekend.

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Sounds just wh at I need