It is July 16th in the middle of the afternoon, and I am standing on a concrete island in a sea of asphalt outside the Delta terminal at La Guardia. The breeze is doing exactly nothing to avert the blistering heat, and I am wondering where the heck my hired car has gone; with envy I watch a few well-heeled travelers climb into [...]
A couple of seasons back Louisville Ballet gave its audiences a taste of choreographer Mark Godden in the guise of his version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute (which he first created for Canada’s Royal Winnepeg Ballet), where Tamino—here a TV junkie in a smoking jacket—enters not from stage right or left, but is dropped from [...]
I love hosting guest artists at Knoxville Ballet School. I get a chance to cross my own threshold in civilian clothing, for a change, and watch young dancers respond to somebody else standing at the front of the room. This experience usually shakes me to my core, as I witness a fresh take on classical [...]
EEEEWWWW. Well, homage to Theatre Knoxville Downtown, anyway, currently mounting a production of Blood Relations—The People Against Lizzie Borden. (And incidentally, my dear friend Betsy is cast as Lizzie’s sister, Emma; go, Betsy.) You may be surprised to learn that Lizzie’s story has been made into a ballet. I sure as [...]
Occasionally when I can’t sleep I dig into my collection of ballet videos and revisit some favorites. This was the case over the last couple of weeks when I decided to dust off my copy of ABT’s Le Corsaire; this particular production was taped in 1999 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in [...]
As usual, Shakespeare on the Square nearly got away from me. This is typical. I hear the dates and the plays announced months in advance, think I have loads of time to see them, and then they’re nearly gone. This was the final weekend: I’m sorry to say I made it [...]
His name is Brian Pittman, and you can purchase his work at Bliss Home on Market Square; here is a detail from the drawing just around the corner from the Square:
Fun in the water fountain this morning; I love how the child in the foreground appears to be levitating:
The facade of the Emporium on Gay [...]
Found this:
It is the work of the “cathedral-drawing guy” Almostgotit mentions in her comment on my July 26th post; anybody know his name?
Teenager is taking a theatre class downtown on Saturdays for the next few weeks; today was the first. Because the class is only an hour and a half, I decided to stay put and explore rather than drive home and back. I had a thoroughly self-indulgent little while, including a quiet iced coffee with my [...]