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...
by Neil | Jan 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
January 15, 2025 – The new years parade by. I lose count of how many times I have witnessed APPALACHIAN SPRING, and have come to understand why — because a masterpiece is inexhaustible. My familiarity with the enduring content of this dance has likewise...
by Neil | May 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Half a century ago, when I was living in Buffalo, N.Y., having labored for a PhD in Modern American Poetry, I launched a “little magazine” (as we called them back then) The Niagara Magazine, that I edited and published for eight years. The Premier Issue,...
by Neil | May 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Reading Paul Auster’s obituary this morning in The New York Times, I recall him as a gifted, elegant, cosmopolitan comrade and writer in the late 1970s, when my wife and I were starting a new life in Brooklyn Heights and Paul came over to our place for...
by Neil | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Wednesday evening, April 17th – Martha Graham – When Dance Became Modern front and center at the Company’s merchandise stand in City Center lobby.
by Neil | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thursday evening, March 13, 8:00 p.m., at 55 Bethune Street, 11th floor – The Martha Graham dancers introduce themselves after an incandescent, primal, thunderous, airborne, simultaneously rough-hewn and liquid rehearsal performance. Graham’s 1984...