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
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
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
Miraculous
The city streets were covered with snow for the last seven weeks. Today was the first day of mild weather and I can finally see the soil in my backyard. When the last of the snow had melted away, this … Continue reading
Battery Park Pier
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
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
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
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