The philosophy Make Art, not War is one I grew up with. My parents were surrounded by artists, artists who worked obscurely at their crafts in the deserts of Northern New Mexico, artists who took a long time to make names for themselves, because things taking a long time is rather part and parcel of working in obscurity.
This is the way I feel this morning. Smoky.
Something a little dreamy
As long as I’m in the Hip Hop Music Mood, or Mode, whichever you prefer, I might as well be in the Hip Hop Dance…
The Argentine Tango.
Attached is an optimistic article on Aducanumab, a new drug being developed by Biogen that (hopefully) shows the…
Dance with yourself
On the Upper West Side of New York, across town from my apartment, rage foments outside of the Metropolitan Opera’s…
Lovers loving. Dancers dancing. Fountains rising and falling. At the ballet.
I hardly know where to begin deconstructing some of the lunacy in the attached article about why girls are doing…
This ice dance between Meryl Davis and Charlie White is sublime.
Google, Tell Me.
I do not understand one single thing about this convicted murderer’s execution in Ohio today.
We are lying on our backs looking up into the pastel-hued interior of The Guggenheim spiral.
What would come to mind if I were to ask each of you what inspires you?
Splendid Isolation is the choreographer Jessica Lang’s dance tribute to the marriage between Gustav Mahler, the…
An exquisitely choreographed dance between a man and a woman.
“I want to be alone. I just want to be alone” – Greta Garbo, Grand Hotel
So what is the purpose of men in modern families?
A friend recently confessed that she didn’t think she could ever write nonfiction, which is highly personal, because…
It is articles like this one that are killing the sexual desire of women.
A length of leg.
Five Talented Dancers + an Empty Warehouse + the Countryside + a Video Camera x the Human Condition = Gravity of Center, a choreographed site specific conversation between 3 men and 2 women. It’s impossible to explore this kind of movement in a traditional studio or theatre space. Remove dance from a constrained space, no matter how well-designed the set, and “stage” it in nontraditional indoor and outdoor spaces and the movement conversation changes, expands and challenges the viewer.
Morning
Cheers, everyone
Hello, everyone
I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan – and never, ever let you forget you’re a man, ’cause I’m a woman.
My friend Kena Herod got me reminiscing about all of the African American dancers I admire with her recent post…
How bizarre that at the end of a musician’s long day – of practicing and perfecting their craft – they might have to…
0 degrees and another glorious sunrise, which began with deep orange-red, turned redder, faded to rose-pink, then pale yellow and lifted soon enough to a white light. Your sun, wherever you are, has been or will be the same, but will announce its arrival differently, as it will its departure at the end of our individual and collective day.
I have been thinking about Richard Blanco’s poem, One Today since he read it at the inauguration yesterday. His words took me back to my childhood in Northern New Mexico – the Southern end of the Rockies – where many families were linked to the Earth in some way. Gardens were for growing vegetables, not just flowers. Acreage was often for chickens, and therefore eggs, and cows or goats, and therefore milk and cheese, and horses, and therefore alfalfa.
Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or…
“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Ho Ho Ho! Nizhonigo Keshmish Baahózhó Doo Nínanahí, as the Navajos would say…
Good morning, everyone
Morning, everyone
Do Less and Let the Music Shine
Presidential Election Eve, 2012
Greetings Googlers…
Hello, everyone, post-Felix Baumgartner jump and mid- Dallas/Baltimore game
Good morning new lovers, young lovers, old lovers…
I’ve been traveling a lot and working. I haven’t been in touch as much as I want to be, and I have missed people’s posts that are important. But so many of you have been kind and stayed in touch with me even if I haven’t been able to return the kindness and I appreciate it. Thank you!
