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The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Three): Jane Zwart [by Angela Ball]
Poem with a Hole in It My great-aunt had a typewriter that knocked the bellyfrom every O she wrote. Every poem has a hole in it. A rifle’s sight, the peg of lens in…
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Wanted: A five-points-on-a-post-it-note guide to enjoying live dance performance [by Tracy Danison]
As this scene from "L'Aveuglement" ("Blindness") dance performance by Mylene Benoit reminds us, live dance performance is exciting and important. But spectators need access – initiation and apprenticeship – to fully enjoy and appreciate…
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Wanted: A five-points-on-a-post-it-note guide to enjoying live dance performance [by Tracy Danison]
As this scene from "L'Aveuglement" ("Blindness") dance performance by Mylene Benoit reminds us, live dance performance is exciting and important. But spectators need access – initiation and apprenticeship – to fully enjoy and appreciate…
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Theme Music: Claude Debussy’s “Danse Tarantelle”
08 / 22 / 08 Today in 1862Claude Debussy was born.I remember where I was and what I was doingone hundred years and two months later:elementary algebra, trombone practice,Julius Caesar on the record playerwith…
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Theme Music: Claude Debussy’s “Danse Tarantelle”
08 / 22 / 08 Today in 1862Claude Debussy was born.I remember where I was and what I was doingone hundred years and two months later:elementary algebra, trombone practice,Julius Caesar on the record playerwith…
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“Confession” [poem by Charles Baudelaire, tr. Sandra Simonds]
ConfessionOnce, and only once, Sweet Girl,my hand on your ass, I felt my spirit. It was late and snow fell against the moon,while all of Paris slept, and the cats passed before the houses,…