Choreographer/Dancer Beth Soll, Artistic Director of Beth Soll & Company, will present Earthly Dances in Troubled Times, a concert of four new works and a film at Westbeth Center for the Arts, 55 Bethune Street, NYC.
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Quarry Dance IX, a creation of Rockport s Windhover Center for the Performing Arts and the Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre of New York City, is now available to view online at windhover.org. Additionally, 1623 Studios is currently showing it nightly on channel 67.
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The 75th anniversary of the Rockport Art Association s Christmas pageant is highlighted this pandemic year in the shop window of Willoughbyâs. The display includes a stable scene and costumes of the Three Kings.
As we say farewell to the pandemic-riddled year of 2020, a look back at the local arts and music scene shows a surge of creativity as people pivoted to find ways to keep producing during the tumultuous existence we all faced due to the coronavirus. As the year comes to a close, here are just a few more examples of how artists and organizations have kept traditions going and the music flowing.
The Offending Classic
Photo: Nikolai Aistov as the Rajah, Julia Sedova as Gamzatti and Pavel Gerdt as Solor (ca. 1902). Courtesy of the Marius Petipa Society.
We have recently seen a conflict over a Depression-era mural on the wall of a public school in San Francisco. It came under attack by the student body for its offensive content to minorities, even though the 1930s mural in question was by Russian leftist émigré artist Victor Arnautoff (hardly a household name) and was created as a protest against the injustice propagated by the United States of America against minorities.[1] A dead Native American at the feet of the first President of the United States is the offending element within this image. The irony in this image, which contests our country’s great democratic myth, is apparently no longer legible as such to the very interpretive community the artist might well have wished to address today. The dead Native American is now taken literally, and the representation itsel