Archive for September, 2021

Justin Peck Dancer, Choreographer Extraordinaire

Thursday, September 30th, 2021
  • Justin Peck homepage

  • Four Phrases Justin Peck Ballet improvisations

  • See a documentary on Justin Peck at Kanopy Ballet 422

  • Rodeo

    NYC Ballet’s Justin Peck and Taylor Stanley on Peck’s RODEO: FOUR DANCE EPISODES

    The Moon & Basho

    Sunday, September 26th, 2021
  • The Moon Glows the Same

    Matsuo Bashō 1687

  • The moon so pure
    a wandering monk carries it
    across the sand

    Matsuo Bashō

  • In Balanchine Classroom

    Sunday, September 19th, 2021

  • May 19, 1965: George Balanchine examines Suzanne Farrell’s hand in rehearsals for a NYCB production of Don Quixote at New York State Theater. (Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

    In Balanchine Classroom is streaming at Kanopy.

    Filled with never before seen archival footage of Balanchine at work during rehearsals, classes, and in preparation for his most seminal works, along with interviews with many of his adored and adoring dancers and those who try to carry on his legacy today, this is Balanchine as you have never seen him, and a film for anyone who loves ballet and the creative process.

  • Balanchine, 1941
    (Above photo by George Platt Lynes)

  • Balanchine Teaching – the New Yorker

  • Shakespeare of Dance and Our Contemporary

  • Balanchine danced with John Maynard Keynes‘s wife who was
    a ballerina.

  • 10th Anniversary of Occupied Wall Street – 2021

    Friday, September 17th, 2021
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    “Even the smallest of voices need to be heard” a placard held by the young Lego artist.
    (She will be 15 years old in a few days)

  • Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

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    Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

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  • Looking back…

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    Wall street Anti- Captitalist Protest Picture Gallery slideshow (Guardian)

    LiveStream Global Revolution

  • A line from Salvador Allende

    Balancing between abstract
    expressionism & futurism
    the calm metal instrument
    of my voice tweaks the once-

    sacred double-helix to create
    pyramids in bold colors &
    textures. Exquisite tropes. The
    great avenues will open again.

    Daniil Medvedev Moment, First Grand Slam at US Open

    Sunday, September 12th, 2021

  • New signal to the Tennis world
    Other Tennis players react on social meida

    Medvedev is the first to win a Grand Slam final against one of the Big 3 since Stan Wawrinka.


    (Dead fish celebration)

    “I like to play FIFA. I like to play PlayStation. It’s called the dead fish celebration. If you know your opponent when you play FIFA, many times you’re going to do this. You’re going to score a goal, you’re up 5-0, you do this one.


  • Happy winners!

  • Naomi Kawase – “True Mothers’ ( japanese title Asa ga kuru)

    Thursday, September 9th, 2021

  • A review of True Mothers

  • (Azu Makita was in “After the Storm” “The Third Murder’, “The Shoplifters” directed by Kore eda)


  • Juliette Binoche and Naomi Kawase photographed by Leslie Kee for Vogue Taiwan, 2018

    The Dvd of “True Mother”s offers Bonus feature discussion of Naomi Kawase and Juliette Binoche. Both ladies often became emotional and were in tears.

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    Naomi Kawase
    Masatoshi Nagases previous post
    Naomi Kawase wiki

    She employs this documentary-realism to focus on individuals of lesser cultural status, challenging prevailing representations of women within the male-dominated Japanese film industry.[1] This theme is also connected to her own personal reflections on contemporary issues in the current climate of economic depression such as the declining birthrate, alienation, and the collapse of traditional family structures

    Adieu Jean Paul Belmondo – (9 April 1933 – 6 September, 2021)

    Monday, September 6th, 2021

  • (Photo via The Many Faces of Jean Paul Belmondo

    Breathless actor, Belmondo dies aged 88.


  • (Thief of Paris, directed by Louis Malle)

    Jean Paul Belmondo, born 9 April 1933

    Son of Paul Belmondo, a French sculptor of Italian descent.

    That Man from Rio

    This fast-moving spoof of Bond-type movies features striking location photography of Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyer’s nascent Brasília and Paris of the time. In 1964 the film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay.

  • “Léon Morin, Priest” in English — was Melville’s sixth feature and almost the exact midpoint between early successes like “Bob le Flambeur” (1956), about a gentleman thief organizing the heist of a lifetime, and “Army of Shadows” (1969), his late-career masterpiece about the Resistance. Given his interest in the war, it’s understandable that he was drawn to “Léon Morin” and its story of life during the occupation.

  • In the interview included on this disc, Melville says he was sitting on it for eight years but never started because he couldn’t find an actor right for the part of Morin, and that it was only after watching Breathless that he decided to try and get Belmondo, who was initially reluctant and had to be convinced by Melville.


  • Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica (Sophia Loren won an Oscar for best actress)

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    (Is Paris Burning – Alain Delon and Belmondo directed by Rene Clement)


  • (Stavisky directed by Alain Resnais)

    Paris Journal on Stavisky (Jonathan Rosenbaum – see more photos here)

    Stavisky – Madoff with a Lot – a film review

    Quattara Watts – Paintings

    Thursday, September 2nd, 2021
  • Coolhunting.com Culture Quattara Watts


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    Maximum Impact, Kaelen Wilson Goldie on the art of Ouattara Watts

    Quattara Watts – wiki

    Ouattara Watts (born 1957) is an American artist[1] from Ivory Coast.[2] He studied at l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.[3]

    In Paris, he met Jean-Michel Basquiat at an exhibition opening in January 1988. Basquiat was impressed by Watts’s paintings and convinced him to move to New York City. They had a very short but important collaboration.[4] In the documentary Basquiat, Une Vie, Watts was filmed in his studio, working and talking about Basquiat.

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    Ouattara Watts and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, September 5, 1988.
    See more Art net here