fall for dance fest @ new york city center

 Minus 16 © Fernando Marcos, 2013.

 Minus 16 © Fernando Marcos, 2013.

Concerto  Lucinda Childs 1993

Semperoper Ballet  Neue Suite  William Forsythe  2012

Sebastien Rameriez and Honji Wang  AP15  2010

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre  Minus 16  Omad Naharin  2011

village bike @ MCC Theater

Greta Gerwig and Scott Shepherd                                         Photo by Oresti Tsonopoulos/The New York Times.

Greta Gerwig and Scott Shepherd                                         Photo by Oresti Tsonopoulos/The New York Times.

Directed by Sam Gold   

Written by Penelope Skinner

jean baptiste carpeaux @ the met

Ugolino and His Sons, modeled ca. 1860–61, executed in marble 1865–67

Ugolino and His Sons, modeled ca. 1860–61, executed in marble 1865–67

Like many nineteenth-century French sculptors, Carpeaux was from the working class. Son and grandson of stonemasons in Valenciennes, he was apprenticed as a boy to Debaisieux, a plasterer. Since drawing was a necessary tool of his trade, Carpeaux was enrolled in the Académie de Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture in Valenciennes, and, after his family's relocation to Paris in 1838, at the École Gratuite de Dessin (or Petite École) until 1843. That these two schools were open to instruct youths like Carpeaux in drawing was part of a government policy to encourage the application of the fine arts to industry.

museum of the american indian

Oh Great Spirit, who made all races,

look kindly upon the whole human 
family and take away the arrogance and

hatred which separates us from our brothers....

 - Cherokee prayer

rubin museum

Green Tara 

Green Tara

 

On a lotus seat, standing for realization of voidness, 
(You are) the emerald-colored, one-faced, two-armed Lady 
In youth's full bloom, right leg out, left drawn in, 
Showing the union of  wisdom and art -  homage to you! 
Like the outstretched branch of the heavenly turquoise tree, 
Your supple right hand makes the boon-  granting gesture, 
Inviting the wise to a feast of supreme accomplishments, 
As if to an entertainment-homage to you! 
Your left hand gives us refuge, showing the Three Jewels; 
It says, "You people who see a hundred dangers, 
Don't be frightened-I shall swiftly save you!" 
Homage to you! 
Both hands signal with blue blue utpala flowers, 
"Samsaric beings! Cling not to worldly pleasures. 
Enter the great city of liberation!" 
Flower-goads prodding us to effort-homage to you!

... First Dalai Lama (1391-1474)