MARTHA GRAHAM – WHEN DANCE BECAME MODERN – now on Spotify!

by Neil | Nov 16, 2023 | Uncategorized

[Screenshot by Richard Fahrer.]

Thanks to Sen. Bill Bradley and producer Devorah Klahr for re-posting my childhood memory on their AMERICAN VOICES podcast

by Neil | Oct 29, 2023 | Uncategorized

The Dance Historian Is In – MICHIO ITO’s modern provenance

by Neil | Oct 26, 2023 | Uncategorized

At The NYPL for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Wednesday, October 25, 2023 – Wendy Perron and Muna Tseng share their exploratory scholarship and embodied experience in a revelatory discussion of Michio...

MARTHA in Madrid

by Neil | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorized

Thanks as always to eagle-eyed Leslie Andrea Williams, on tour in Spain with the Martha Graham Dance Company, for spotting my book at the Biblioteca y Centro de Documentacion – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

ART FOR THE MILLIONS – from the curator’s perspective

by Neil | Oct 11, 2023 | Uncategorized

What a privilege to spend an instructive hour at The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Allison Rudnick, Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, guiding me through her thoughtfully-mounted exhibition resonating with the social conscience, iconoclasm and raw energy of...

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day – remembering a long-ago visit to the Yucatan

by Neil | Oct 9, 2023 | Uncategorized

February 2, 1988 – We emerged from our subterranean adventure in the Caves of Loltun in the Puuc region south of Oxkutzcab, met the artist Vicente Chable Canul, and talked with him about the fieldwork for my book in progress, Legends of the Plumed Serpent. He...