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...
by Neil | Oct 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
2:05 p.m., Saturday, October 7, 2023 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The American Wing – Charles Engelhard Court. Art for the Millions – Radical Dance for the People – takes flight as Xin Ying, Principal Dancer of the Martha Graham...
by Neil | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
What a delight to run into Limon Dance Company versatile veteran Daniel Fetecua, Martha Graham Company premiere danseuse alumna, the ever-luminous Blakeley White-McGuire and brilliantly ascendant Limon Company member Nicholas Ruscica last night among the hundreds in...
by Neil | Sep 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
“That girl, who was myself, is seeing a great landscape — untrammeled,” Martha Graham said of Frontier: American Perspective of the Plains (1935), her first collaboration with Isamu Noguchi, now gloriously and ecstatically on view at the welcoming...
by Neil | Sep 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
August 30, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m. – Such a prideful afternoon at the Dance Academy of North Jersey in Lake Hopatcong, bearing witness to my brilliant former danceaturgy student, Kristilee Maiella (Montclair State University BFA Dance, 2020), winner of the NJPAC New...
by Neil | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
What an honor and a pleasure to spend a wonderful hour on August 19th talking with Jacob’s Pillow scholar-in-residence Maura Keefe about Martha Graham – When Dance Became Modern before a blessedly attentive capacity audience — and then to sign (many)...
