by Neil | Aug 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
“I talked to Linda Hodes and she would be delighted to meet with you,” renowned Martha Graham Company veteran and founder of the UC Berkeley Dance department Marni Wood told me on June 10, 2014. Marni and I had chatted over coffee (at her favorite spot,...
by Neil | Mar 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
A poem worth pondering, chosen in a time bearing witness to the invasion and destruction of our institutions. In the essay collection The Witness of Poetry (1983), Milosz stresses the importance of Poland’s cultural heritage and history in shaping his work. “My...
by Neil | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Into my seventh decade as a published author/editor/critic. Books and little magazines and manuscripts and photographs and ephemera on the 3rd floor have been building up, containing multitudes. It feels like forever that I’ve been talking to friends and family...
by Neil | Feb 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Friday afternoon, February 21 2025 – In the 11th floor rehearsal studio, inundated by Hunter Johnson’s invasive score, bearing witness to the Martha Graham ensemble unspooling this episodic quasi-narrative under the impeccable guidance of Blakeley...
by Neil | Jan 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Tuesday evening, January 27th, 2025 – in the Studio at 115 Wooster Street – I was invited by Samantha Geracht to sit quietly (as always) and lend “another pair of eyes” to a rehearsal for Charles Weidman’s seven-minute epic, the 1936...
