The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
THEATER REVIEW: "When She Danced" ★★1/2 Through Dec. 20 at TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington Ave.; Running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes; Tickets: $25-$35 at 773-281-8463 or www.timelinetheatre.com. Forging a biographical drama about one of history’s greatest dancers is a...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by [January's] 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance...." The San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival received seven nominations apiece....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by the 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance between Sept. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2009. Lee will be honored for "Flux," an interdisciplinary piece...
AdScam/The Horror! (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... sophisticated motion graphics and editing at our desks or on a plane. We can make type dance like Isadora Duncan on LSD. We can compose and record music. We can buy a $49 video camera and shoot stuff. These are all things Mr. McCarthy can't do on his Olivetti. But they don't make us better than McCarthy. Because Mr. McCarthy's trade involves ideas. So far no one has built a desktop...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... became a convent school for young ladies; when the nuns moved out in 1905, the artists moved in. Isadora Duncan opened a dance school in the upstairs gallery, Matisse took over the classrooms across the garden, and
Boston Review (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... place where they could be themselves. They were famous—Ellis, Goldman, Olive Schreiner, Roger Fry, Isadora Duncan, Jack London, William Morris, E. M. Forster—and they were obscure, tramping out to Millthorpe by the score to have a taste of the working wisdom that Carpenter and his commune had begun to radiate. In England between 1890 and 1920, if you had any aspirations to lead a...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... strategy, and as a tool within alienation. Effigies brings together works channeling the likes of Isadora Duncan and Joan Armatrading. In the sculpture Armatrading, history is repeated twice, when a mock-up of Gerrit Rietvelds famous zig-zag chair act not only as a reference to him, but also to Joan Armatrading’s iconic 1980 album cover Me, Myself I, where it is depicted. Viste...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... Bianca is dark-haired and in Pre-Raphaelite soft focus, wearing layers of flowing chiffon like Isadora Duncan, seated before folk art tapestries and languid palms; Thaïs is as bottle-bleached as a punk rocker, wears theatrical costumes that make her look like Pierrot-meets-Road Warrior, and lives in a magnificent spread of intricate Op Art chambers, full of perspectival tricks, boxy...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... and Mendelssohn. ( New York Times ) -- Fast on their feet : The nominations and honorees for the Isadora Duncan Awards -- honoring the best in the Bay Area dance community -- have been announced. ( San Francisco Chronicle ) -- And in the L.A. Times : Researchers say that the ancient Nazca people of Peru hastened their own demise through deforestation; President Obama makes 25 appointments...
driverchris (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... in one hand, but the additional protection is reassuring hopefully preventing some combination of Isadora Duncan and a spinning top. Opinions differ on the value of these front bars - they'll probably save your paint in a low speed drop but Bruce reckoned they were just as likely to trap or smash your leg in an accident. The single bar on the front of Paul's Bullet was fixed with...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... century were frequent guests there, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Elliot, Isadora Duncan, Sinclair Lewis and Truman Capote. She used her wealth to promote many of them. Dayton librarian and Dayton historian Leon Bey speaks about the marker and its installation at its unveiling over the weekend, AFTER THE JUMP...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... the exclusionary dance that puts regular people off to dance but dance itself, the way God and Isadora Duncan ... Email
