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Driving Toward Summer
Via washingtonpost.com
May 2012
Eiko and Koma’s trademark meditative pace will be part of the Caravan Project at Maryland’s Clarice Smith Center, but the work’s conclusion sets it apart: performed in a trailer, the duo will hop in a car and drive away, “looking toward summer,” as Eiko says.
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Duke Artists Named
Via ddpaa.org
Apr 2012
Among the first class of Doris Duke Artists, who’ll receive multi-year cash grants of $225,000, are Walker friends Anne Bogart, Bill Frisell, Vijay Iyer, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Young Jean Lee, Eiko Otake, Ralph Lemon, Meredith Monk, Sarah Michelson, and others.
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Full Circle
Via galleristny.com
Apr 2012
Upping the dance mojo at Westbeth Center for the Arts even more, the Martha Graham Dance Company is moving into the Greenwich Village studios Merce Cunningham’s dance company occupied since 1970. Cunningham got his start in 1939 as a soloist with Graham.
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Arts Rebound
Via artsusa.org
Apr 2012
After hitting an all-time low in 2009, the vitality of the arts industry, as measured by the newest National Arts Index, is rebounding. While funding remains a concern, “half of the 83 indicators used to tabulate the Index score increased” in the latest reporting period.
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Merce’s Ocean
Via nytimes.com
Apr 2012
When Merce Cunningham’s dance company performed the choreographer’s magnum opus in a Minnesota quarry in 2008, filmmaker Charles Atlas was there. His Ocean, which captures the Walker co-production in vivid detail, screens this week as part of the Whitney Biennial.
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Arts Ed Alert
Via ed.gov
Apr 2012
Arts education in US public schools has taken a hit over the past decade, according to a Department of Education report released Monday: While 20 percent of primary and secondary schools offered drama or dance 10 years ago, only 3 or 4 percent do today.
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Occupy Super Fly
Via vanityfair.com
Mar 2012
Bill T. Jones says he’s directing and choreographing a Broadway musical based on the blaxploitation film Super Fly. It’s “quite a new take on” the 1972 movie, he says, adding that it’s “very much made for our Occupy Wall Street era.”
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Feel the Moves
Via nytimes.com
Mar 2012
Newly published research finds that spectators watching ballet performances “showed muscle-specific responses in their brain as if they were expert dancers—even though ‘they were clearly not capable of doing the actual movements.’”
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Plan-It Hennepin
Via downtownjournal.com
Mar 2012
The Plan-It Hennepin initiative exploring ways to reimagine Hennepin Avenue from the Walker to the riverfront has a twist: it aims to let arts and community groups lead the charge. The four-part Talk-It Hennepin lecture series should get the discussion going.