Posted in performance on Apr 27th, 2010
I have followed postmodern dance pioneer, Anna Halprin, in very small doses over a long span and this documentary about her life did not change my impressions. I find her work underwhelming except for a few astonishing images, her integrity and longevity, and the first film piece of hers I saw when I was a [...]
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Posted in Events, performance on Feb 16th, 2010
In its beauty and integrity, the Dunyati Alembic had the deserved honor of being the Wednesday evening event in the Main Hall at Kripalu Center for Yoga in the Berkshires. The Main Hall is a high vaulted temple, dramatically lit, with soft carpeted floors, and Wednesday evening is usually a community kirtan with many attendees. [...]
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Posted in performance on Sep 25th, 2009
Kate Temple-West, theater director, herbalist and Dancemeditator, muses on a recent dance/theatrer collaboration at BAM. Binoche & Khan –by Kate Temple-West Intrigued by the tagline “an actor dances and a dancer acts,” I bought a ticket to In/I as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s NextWave festival. The actor happened to be Juliette Binoche, so [...]
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