A doctor, a judge and a choreographer walk into a room… Not the opening for a shaggy dog story, but components of the Dr. Kerry English Creative Fellowship. The newly announced fellowship provides five years of funding…
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SoCal Dance continues to stream with performances, workshops and online classes. Diavolo and JazzAntiqua Dance Ensemble focus on politics, race and war…
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This was a week when Italy’s La Scala Ballet was to perform Giselle and Onegin, two full-length story ballets that revolve around different types of revenge after mistreatment of women by men in positions of power. Meanwhile…the floor of Congress was the stage as a congresswoman articulately shredded a male colleague’s non-apology for misogynistic behavior. Meanwhile…
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Streamed performance everywhere was upstaged this week by the “Wall of Moms.” The female phalanx of linked arms provided peaceful counter-choreography to unidentified federal militia snatching demonstrators off Portland’s streets into unmarked vans, releasing them hours later without charge, without paperwork, without explanation. Unimpressed even with moms or that what had dwindled to a few hundred demonstrators until this invasion of Portland swelled the protesting crowd to thousands, the federal militia’s choreography reprised lobbed tear gas, impact munitions, and batons at peaceful protestors. The power of Portland’s scenes was further heightened by the death of Congressman John Lewis and 60-year old newsreels of Lewis with other peaceful civil rights demonstrators similarly beaten and attacked by men with badges wielding batons, firehoses, and dogs. In what may prove a timely coincidence …
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In a week when Britain’s government allocated 1.5 billion pounds (equivalent to 1.89 billion US dollars…yes, billion) to support that country’s arts organizations adversely impacted by Covid-19. Meanwhile, here in the U.S.A., performing arts, including dance, continue a lonely, Dickensonian exploration of virtual worlds on-line, most often streaming for free follow by a donation-ask with hat in hand. Locally…
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