Little Island Announces Inaugural Summer Performances
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Little Island, the hottest, tiniest floating public park in New York City, opened to a not-infinitesimal amount of fanfare at the end of May. Everybody loves the $260 million, Barry Diller-funded Hudson River park, which is being treated by New Yorkers as some mix of Instagram backdrop and picnic destination. As if you needed any other reason to make your way over there, the park has announced its first slate of special live events happening there over the next two months, including concerts, ballet performances and more.
The events kick off on the weekend of
Review: The Charms and Pitfalls of Dancing the Gods on Camera
This year’s iteration of the Indian dance festival, in two programs, is online; with Surupa Sen, what’s gained is emotional intimacy.
Rama Vaidyanathan, performing in Delhi (with Humayan’s Tomb in the background).Credit.Inni Singh
May 24, 2021, 12:47 p.m. ET
Since 2011, the World Music Institute’s Dancing the Gods festival has consistently delivered high-quality Indian dance to New York. Last year, like so much else, it was canceled. This year, like so much else, it’s virtual which means that another stage experience is being mediated by cameras, with all the attendant possibilities and pitfalls.
Leni Stern Talks Composing and Recording During the Pandemic
Leni Stern is a guitarist, singer/songwriter and band leader whose music spans jazz, folk, African, Latin and other global styles. She has been a presence in New York
’s live music scene for many years and has toured the world, working with a huge assortment of artists, including Malian stars Salif Keita and Bassekou Kouyate. Afropop
’s Banning Eyre has known and played with Leni for years, so their Zoom conversation about Leni
’s 22 CD Dance (out June 4, 2021) is as much a dialogue between old friends as a journalistic interview. Here it is!