My story of working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on its final performances.
So the challenge for Southern artists now is to stay connected– to keep the ankles in the mud and the fires smoldering.To be a product of the palpable senses, and to let the sights, sounds, emotion and memory of your place build your reality and your platform.
A well-selected soundtrack can elevate a meager narrative, ho-hum acting, or clunky dialogue. Listen closely.
It’s a chilly album, but there’s a lot of warmth sheltered in the ice.
The Friday before Halloween sees queues for New York City’s Fright Shows snaking round corners, but two Curator writers and a half dozen of their friends coiled into Tribeca’s City Winery to peek into John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders. While nobody screamed in horror, the evening is worth an explanation.
They are one with their instrument. There isn’t a point at which the man stops and his instrument begins. This was Jaco.
It was the beginning of the second song when this little, white, Baptist girl hopped up from her seat to find a deserted place in the wings of the mezzanine, so she could groove without blocking anyone else’s view.
On Jakob Dylan, Cormac McCarthy, Japan, and prevenient hope.