![]() ![]() We chatted with Janine Thériault who plays La Belle about her role and what it's like to perform with "virtuals."ġ. In Lemieux Pilon 4D Art's La Belle et la Bête, the actors interact with stunning projected imagery in a retelling of the age-old Beauty and the Beast story. In his usual non-linear way, Wilson has pried this narrative apart, examining it from all angles. ![]() Among other things, Hurston’s book is an allegory of slavery and liberation in America. Such reflections on the multifaceted nature of myth dovetailed with Wilson’s reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain, a retelling of the Moses story as a Southern American folk tale. “Show me your Moses and I’ll tell you who you are,” Professor Shinan tells his students at the beginning of each semester, laying out a variety of images. It was Shinan who coined the word “Moses(es),” evoking the many faces of the man who delivered Once there, he met Avigdor Shinan-a Moses scholar at Hebrew University who happens to be the uncle of one of his dancers, Anna Schon. The biblical story of the Exodus has been in the back of Wilson’s mind for years-who hasn’t heard about the burning bush and the crossing of the Red Sea?-but it acquired new layers of complexity when he traveled to Jerusalem in 2010 for a residency sponsored by the Foundation for Jewish Culture (now the American Academy in Jerusalem). Wilson says with a laugh, discussing some of the ideas behind his new work, Moses(es), which will have its New York premiere at the BAM Harvey on Dec 4. That’s part of the fascination,” the choreographer Reggie Hope to see you in the café this weekend…ĭarrell McNeill is the Associate Producer of Music Programming at BAM. Many of these figures (including Arturo O’Farrill, Renee Manning, Buddy Williams, Jimmy Heath, and TS Monk among others) will be returning the favor in a birthday musical celebration to Earl in the café.Īnother music-rich weekend awaits. Award-winning trombonist/tubaist/composer Earl McIntyre, a fixture in the Lincoln Center Latin Jazz Orchestra, has performed with some of the biggest names in all genres of music. Representing strong for the sonically eclectic sounds that are New Orleans’ stock and trade, Water Seed is supporting its fourth release, Wonder Love 2, with a deep mélange of dirty grooves. Week 10 ushers in popular New Orleans soul/funk quintet Water Seed on Friday, November 22, making only its second-ever swing thought the northeast, while an all-star assemblage of jazz talent gathers to celebrate the 60th birthday of jazz trombonist Earl McIntyre on Saturday, November 23. Speaking of the Bard, in 2011, Ed Hall’s company Propeller blew the roof off of the Harvey Theater with a wonderful, over-the-top production of The Comedy of Errors. But within the plays are numerous instances of characters switching genders to achieve a questionable goal or complicate the plot. Males played the female parts in Shakespeare’s original productions. In numerous Greek, Norse, and Hindu myths, sexual identities are switched, either as punishment or as a way to avoid detection. Here is a quick historical scan of cross-dressing at BAM.Ĭross-dressing has long been essential to storytelling history. Whatever our forward-thinking founding fathers had in mind, we have gladly complied. Without getting into confusing legal jargon, BAM is required to present, on a regular basis, men in women’s attire and women wearing outfits normally associated with men. The 1861 bylaws of the Brooklyn Academy of Music contain a little-known, and oddly undocumented, regulation. Reinhild Hoffman's Callas, performed by Tanztheater Bremen
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