Author Archives: Karen

Keigwin + Company’s Exit at the Joyce

Keigwin + Company Exit Joyce Theater Sunday, March 13, 2011 Keigwin + Company’s Exit was a great time from beginning to end.  The evening length dance is set in a dark smokey night club.  Along the back of the stage, … Continue reading

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Ronald K. Brown and Evidence at the Joyce

Ronald K. Brown and Evidence Joyce Theater Sunday Evening, February 13, 2011 From the moment that I found my seat in the theater, I could feel the electricity in the air.  A selection of Stevie Wonder songs filled the room … Continue reading

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Norman Rockwell Behind The Camera at The Brooklyn Museum

“The balopticon is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often—and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.” Eventually photography … Continue reading

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Dancers Chat with Zachary Catazaro

New York City Ballet Dancers Chat with Zachary Catazaro January 28, 2011 Photo by Paul Kolnik On selected Friday evenings during New York City Ballet’s season, they offer an event called Dancers Chat about an hour and a half before … Continue reading

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East Village Murals

I am of an age where I harbor many romantic memories of the East Village.  When I was a high school kid in the early 1970s, it was a place of music, art, fashion and revolution.  Nothing could have been … Continue reading

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Another January Morning in New York City

It’s been one month  since the first blizzard of this season.  The accumulations from that first snowfall are still on the ground.   There’s a song lyric that goes “They say a snow year’s a good year” and if there’s the … Continue reading

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Sneak Preview of Yesid Lopez’s Bolero at APAP – DeMa Dance Company

Choreographer and Artistic Director Yesid Lopez’s latest work for the DeMa Dance Company was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s mural Guernica (detail pictured above),which depicts the ravages of the Spanish Civil War. I had the opportunity to watch Yesid set this … Continue reading

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