Dancescape.Although its dancers are shown here outside the historic Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing arts center located in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. and popularly known as BAM. Founded in 1859 and opened in 1861, it is the oldest such institution still in operation in the United States. , the local troupe known as Spoke the Hub Dancing celebrates its twenty years of community service this month by performing at Old First Reformed Church in its own Brooklyn neighborhood, Park Slope. Spoke founder Elise Long wouldn't have it any other way. She has dedicated herself to a form of dance-theater that doesn't concentrate on established venues, such as BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised. , but is performed where the people already are--in the streets, churches, markets, and schools. Performances are on the weekends of April 23-25 and April 30-May 2. Harris Green San Francisco photographer Marty Sohl has captured the city's dance scene in memorable fashion for years, whether classical or modern or something in between was set before her. A recent assignment for Alonzo King's Lines Contemporary Ballet provided a harvest of lively images, among them this studio portrait of Maurya Kerr, a study in sharp angles and soft fringes, in King's Suite Etta. Bart Roth Edgar Degas's treasure trove of drawings, paintings, and sculpture devoted to dance can be relied on to yield unexpected, along with predictable, pleasures. The 1891 pastel at right, for example, demonstrates the master's unalloyed un·al·loyed adj. 1. Not in mixture with other metals; pure. 2. Complete; unqualified: unalloyed blessings; unalloyed relief. delight in contrasting flesh tones and fabric textures in a composition that makes bold use of open spaces. More intriguing is how he guides--or possibly thrusts--our interest into the upper right corner, where a second dancer's head and shoulders extend into the frame. Are we seeing an exchange of confidences? An intimacy? A consolation? The ambiguity enhances our interest in what would otherwise earn only a passing glance. This drawing, purchased by the National Gallery of Canada National Gallery of Canada National art museum founded in Ottawa in 1880. Its holdings include extensive collections of Canadian art as well as important European works. Its nucleus was formed with the donation of diploma works by members of the Royal Canadian Academy. , Ottawa, in 1953, is part of the exhibit of French and English drawings from the NGC NGC New General Catalogue (of Nebulae and Star Clusters; astronomy) NGC National Geographic Channel (TV) NGC National Guideline Clearinghouse collection at the Frick Collection in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , through April 25. H.G. Martha Graham is not the first person most people would name, if asked for an Andy Warhol subject; however here she is, in his Letter to the World (The Kick) from The Martha Graham Portfolio, 1986. He had worked for Dance Magazine after he arrived in New York City in the early 1950s. Warhols, along with classic George Platt Lynes George Platt Lynes (15 April 1907 – 6 December 1955) was an American fashion and commercial photographer. Born in East Orange, New Jersey to Adelaide (Sparkman) and Joseph Russell Lynes he spent his childhood in New Jersey but attended the Berkshire School in photographs, will be in the exhibition "Watching From the Wings," at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, through May 23. Karen Dacko |
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