“We map the world as it is – not as people would like it to be,” announced the National Geographic, shortly after Russian soldiers stormed Ukrainian military bases in Crimea and the National Geographic was reportedly preparing to change the color of the Crimea on its maps …
It was an ironic choice to use the catchphrase of an ad campaign that ripped off the women’s liberation movement to sell its product as the headline for an evening celebrating four generations of women pioneers of post-modern dance.
That 1968 Virginia Slims campaign (“you’ve come a long way, …
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Ballet to the People meant to show up at Oregon Ballet Theatre in time to gatecrash company class. But on the way to the studio she succumbed to the siren song of Mother Foucault’s Bookshop. With its vintage office furniture and massive, mismatched, hardwood bookshelves, old and new literary …
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The Joffrey Ballet’s ambitious mixed bill, Stories in Motion, exploded onstage at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on September 20th: three ballets that trace a timeline of the infiltration of Modernism in ballet – from George Balanchine’s final work for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1929, …
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The 18th of September proved a global nail-biter, but after Scotland voted to uphold their historically rocky 300-year union with England, Mark Morris’ The Muir and A Wooden Tree, which opened his troupe’s season at Cal Performances in Berkeley one week later, proved a graceful though decidedly …
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