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Arthur Mitchell R.I.P [by Stacey Lehman]
New York City Ballet principal dancer, Suzanne Farrell, rehearses Slaughter on Tenth Avenue with Arthur Mitchell while George Balanchine looks on. Photo (c) Martha Swope/NYPL Reading this obituary of the brilliant Arthur Mitchell fills…
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Next Line, Please: What’s in a Name? [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's post offers up a prompt for our creative consideration with the topic of: your name! As Mr. Lehman so masterfully puts it: "When spoken, a person’s name likely affects him or her…
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“Credit Bubble” [by David Lehman]
Shall we divide the foreplay from the feast?In the gloom of morning, the flightbegan. The sun rose not in the eastbut south, where the clocks said it was night. “Too many cocks spoil the…
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Arthur Mitchell 1934-2018
Arthur Mitchell, right, with George Balanchine Arthur Mitchell Slim dragon-fly too rapid for the eye to cage, contagious gem of virtuositymake visible, mentality.Your jewels…
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To the ray-guns and fungibles, Cowgirls! FRASQ performances at the Générateur show how it could be done [by Tracy Danison]
[FRASQ] #10, “Rencontre de la performance”, begins its 10th year of multidisciplinary performance at the Générateur in Gentilly from 6 to 20 October 2018, it's worth a bus ride, let alone a mass. Photo©BertrandBousquet…
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Facsimile Mantelpiece [poem and photo by Angela Ball]
Ed note: A few weeks ago, Angela Ball visited David and me in Ithaca, NY. One morning over coffee, Angela showed me pictures of her lovely home in Mississippi, where she lives and teaches.…
