Andrew Herman- The Barrel “Coney Island” {series for the Federal Art Project. The Steeplechase-V}, 1939
Snow
Amazing photos of snow taken through a microscope found here.
Shakespeare’s plays are produced constantly, everywhere. Then, there are the adaptations—the films and operas that hew closely to the stories or use them merely as jumping-off points. “The Tempest” has been interpreted in classical ballet, but what would a contemporary-dance version look like? In 2011—exactly four hundred years after the play is thought to have been written—the Vancouver-based choreographer Crystal Pite presented one possibility, with “The Tempest Replica,” which she created for her company, Kidd Pivot. The recent performance of the work at the Joyce showed that the source material is as vital as ever, and in the hands of a creative force like Pite it can lead to an art work of astonishing beauty and thoughtfulness…
Continue reading Andrew Boynton on Crystal Pite’s new work: http://nyr.kr/VzyIAT
Photograph by Jörg Baumann.
