Immigrants in Performance
Racing from torture and death, the United States has served as an international safe haven for immigrants the world over.
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Yo Yo Ma Faked It
It was hard to believe Yo Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman were actually playing live for the Obama Inauguration outside in the bitter cold, and now, today, the New York Times reveals — like the Obama invitations before it — the entire performance was faked!
Insects in Performance
The Newark Museum has a wonderful new presentation — running from 1009-2010 called “Insecta Fantasia” — where bugs are manipulated in aesthetic ways to help bring understanding to nature and history.
Magic and Wondering in the Princeton Atelier
The Princeton Atelier, created by SuperGenius author Toni Morrison, works to blend understanding and resolve conflict by using performance in the wake of logical thinking.
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Reading the Audience
If you’ve ever appeared before a live audience — or if you’ve created something that was presented to a live audience for you — you are well aware of the symbiotic power between performer and audience and you have learned to immediately recognize the subtle clues an audience provides to tell you if they’re with you or not. Getting them with you is hard; keeping them with you is harder.
The Black and Blind Piano Player
When I was a wee lad — perhaps 8 or 9-years-old — I acted in a lot of community theatre plays and musicals.
Acting was an opportunity to escape an ordinary life for one of imagination and history and it was a tasting of a freedom that has sustained me ever since.
Theatre made me an escapee from the mandatory expectations of a pedestrian community where staying and longing were demanded over exploration and fulfillment.
Dick Clark Human Speech
I am still undecided if Dick Clark’s return to television on New Year’s Eve was exploitive, sad or brave. It was probably a mix of all three but that’s a coward’s analysis so I will pick a vein and rip it open.
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