What the hell!
What if he is a girl?
What would I do with her?
What could I do for her?
©kitty litter 2020-no image man-ipulation
You thunk I'm 'flippant'? Fine. Go find yourself an uber-deluxe while others brave the bus and the subway! It was no surprise that the Met Opera announced today that there would be nothing until a 2021-22 session. I quote from a factually correct NYT article:
"far from being a gilded outlier, the Met, the nation’s largest performing arts organization, may well prove to be a bellwether.
The Met, whose budget of roughly $300 million in a normal season makes it the biggest performing arts organization in the nation, is taking a series of steps to try to ensure its survival and adapt to a changed world."
My question is, obviously: how are all these great talents whether they sew costumes, lug the stage trucks around, or, indeed, sing in the AMAZING Met Opera chorus going to survive until them? ! Perhaps that is true of everybody. And not just in the arts. There are some nice realtors in the world. NOT MANY! But, it's the NICE ones that will suffer Covid blows more than the 'cockroaches'!
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Opera in a carpark, opera in the 'eaves', opera for cows?
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“The Curtis Institute has published the results of an independent legal inquiry into allegations by the violinist Lara St John that she was raped at 14 by her teacher Jascha Brodsky, among two-dozen other complaints of a similar nature.”
Great, great recording of Beethoven’s Kreutzer sonata by Lara St John.
Now why was 'Moma' cat meowing expletives to, who I believe, was a 'Papa' cat early this morning? That's not for no reason! I could hear the barking meows from 500 yards! Went to investigate, 'Moma' then walked away, and 'Papa' sat there 'smugly' until I got a bit closer and there was a very slow retreat.
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Studio 5 available until this Tues/Wed Sept 29/30 then by NY City Center membership only ($100).
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Dr. Hiie Saumaa, currently working on a project on the unpublished writings of the choreographer Jerome Robbins gave a riveting talk via Zoom this lunchtime Sept 30, using Jerome Robbins’ notes and footage from the library archive, on his little known piece Watermill (1972). All very 'Zen' and not the least West Side Story. But you certainly saw Robbins' concentrate energy.
"whose pictorial imagery and experiments with stillness and slow motion created a stir at the City Ballet in 1972, stemmed from a 'healing period'," Mr. Robbins said. The festival will revive it for the first time since 1979, with Edward Villella coming out of retirement to re-create his original role as the Everyman hero meditating upon the life cycle."- Anna Kisselgoff (NYT, 1990)
One Zoom post-question was how much, if any, was Robbins influenced by the Judson Dance Theater? The reply was funny, that Robbins couldn't understand why there couldn't be more emotion in experimental theater and dance. Well, there's loads of that concentrate in Watermill. It kinda reminded me of theater director Robert Wilson. But it's unlikely Robbins saw or knew much about Wilson's embryonic work back in 1972. Einstein on the Beach was 1976. There's always a zeitgeist. And Robbins' notebooks show an almost parallel universe to Wilson's. Fascinating.
Hope the library considers continuing this Zoom enterprise even after normality is resumed. It's often tricky to get to Lincoln Center for just the hour to attend these great talks let alone Los Alaska! I mean it takes at least half an hour each way to get there from downtown, and I'm sure they'd be many who'd love to log-in remotely. You can subscribe to their newsletter (separate from NYPL's), so try
dance@nypl.org
NYCB Digital Fall Season: All Balanchine
This program will be available until October 6, 2020 (8 PM EDT)
Two wonderful, frustratingly inspiring (what dance story isn't!!) that I've mentioned on this site before:
Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter
and some of the great post-premiere discussion before my camera san-discs ran out at the DANCE on CAMERA FESTIVAL 2014…
oh and …Stars in the House have now raised over $500,000 since March for The Actors Fund. Tell me that;s not an amazing ‘grass roots’ achievement! Every episode is worth watching (not that I have yet;) and I promised myself I wouldn’t single out one ep anymore and get myself in trouble, but there was a very recent episode of their reunion cast series, Fame-the TV series. Never have I watched any Stars in the House that doesn’t leave me smiling (and informed). That doesn’t mean I don’t then get depressed because for everyone one of those funny, great success stories….so it’s F (I only ever saw the movie…) for the winter holidays.
Where have all my kittens gone, there were so mannny,
When will they ever learn?…
When will I ever….?
Ever
Learn.
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