Adele has an engaging stage presence without any gimmicks. Not putting down gimmicks, they can be fun, but its refreshing to get a glimpse of something that appears to be genuine. Watched this recent video performance and got such pleasure in watching Adele enjoy and have fun with herself and the audience. Because there were not fifty thousand people there, she could see them. And they could easily see her.
Choreographer and Artistic Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar-photo by: Antoine Tempé
Some anthropologists believe that the first form of human communication was dance. Embedded in the dances’ message was and still is the basic need of any community to stay together. Dance always tells the truth.
Urban Bush Women’s mission is to create dance and to create community.
“Urban Bush Women Resistance & Power” at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse , there are still tickets available for tomorrows’ performance. Sunday May 1st, 2011 3PM
Julie Taymor stepping down or away from “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” was expected. In her talk at TED 2011, last week there seemed to be a hint that she was expecting a downturn in events and was cushioning her admirers and supporters for a possible fall.
In Broadway history it is not unusual for directors or writers to be removed from projects that they’ve started. Possibly the one difference here is that Julie Taymor’s visual style is so unique that it would seem impossible for someone else to supplant the original intent of the play. Ms. Taymor’s work for me has always been about magic, our accepting something that we knew was not real, like an elephant disappearing in smoke or in her case turning puppets in lions and giraffes (“The Lion King”). Taymor is a brilliant illusionist and feeds our visual fantasies.
“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” may have been too large of a project for right now, plus no one is immune to some failure and Ms. Taymor will be back to Amaze us once more.
Leonard Bernstein
The music for ” West Side Story” works so well and it is the reason for me to want to see this new revival. The story everyone will admit is an old story. The dancing is wonderful and the staging magnificent, but it is the music and score that stays with you. I hope the current production has not gotten caught in using special effects to tell this story.
Stephen Sondheim
You should be able to love this play with your eyes shut. Also
Somebody has to figure out a way to make “Broadway” affordable again.
Live shows just about every night at Andy’s Jazz Club is something special. On Tuesday’s every week, there is the Tim Fitzgerald Trio, featuring Sarah Marie Young. Ms. Young’s delivery is smooth and real easy to appreciate.
Sarah Marie Young
Our first introduction to Ms. Kitt may have been her 1953 hit record “Santa Baby” and her unusual featured live performance on the Ed Sullivan T.V. Show. Eartha Kitt passed away recently-Christmas Day 2008 to be exact. Eartha Kitt shattered (at that time) my limited beliefs about what it meant to be a “Negro”.