Archive for October 13th, 2012

Money, Money, Money

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

By: Frank Cadenhead October 13, 2012. It certainly is the first time, and probably the last, that I will be able to join my home town, San Diego, together with the French city, Lyon, in the same sentence. But two similar stories in these cities have struck a chord. The first is a surprising item [...]

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Political Mother: Bring Earplugs and Irony

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

Hofesh Schechter is a slippery soul. In Political Mother, seen October 11 as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, the Israeli-born choreographer cloaks his earnestness in irony. The 80-minute, 2010 work is structured through a series of blackouts in which 12 dancers and seven musicians evoke the demagoguery in politics, and entertainment.

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