Bill Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Following is a link to the NASDAQ website with pictures of the Jan. 6 market closing by NYCB, featuring Jennie Somogyi: http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/200601/mar...lose_010606.stm
bart Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Why has no one choreographed a Bulls and Bears ballet? (Or have they?) In the traditional version, part of the action might be scored to the sound of the ticker -- and ticker tape might fly at the (one hopes) joyful conclusion. Or, for the more abstract-minded, something very "downtown" in which the dancer's movements reflect that day's Dow's real-time ups and downs endlessly, with no clear emotional response.
Mme. Hermine Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 i saw something karole armitage did once that was about michael millken (however you spell it) but can't for the life of me recall what it was like other than the main character being both an actor and a dancer and a dance with some office chairs...
Hans Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 That makes me think of the typewriter tap dance in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
canbelto Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 I've got a better idea - the male danseur is the Investor, and the female ballerina is the Stock. It could be a great one act ballet. Investor first meets Stock, and Investor is swept away by passion. The Stock rising could with the right choreographer be a stunning series of lifts, each one higher than the last. But eventually, the Stock is ensnared in the arms of the villain Bear, and the Investor with a broken heart realizes he and Stock will have to part forever. The Stock and Investor pledge their love one more time, before the Stock is carried off by the Bear, leaving the Investor in the middle of the stage, heartbroken.
drb Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 I don't think any Wall Street firm will underwrite your production. Maybe if you changed your ending to one that rises like the end of McKensie's Swan Lake? Of course the guy hadn't taken his broker's advice to "hold" her. A stock tout, Rothbart, had mislead him to sell too soon. But stocks always go up.
KayDenmark Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Jennie is really game for being willing to do this! Talk about having to sacrifice for your art.
carbro Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 I'll say! Out in the street in just a swan get-up, and it was just barely 40 degrees.
Amy Reusch Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Out in the street? I always thought the bell was inside the stock exchange? My only regret is that they didn't try for something more photographic (or glamorous? remembering the Ballets Russes movie)... perhaps involving a danseur & a lift so that we could see a little more of her.
Bill Posted January 19, 2006 Author Posted January 19, 2006 Out in the street? I always thought the bell was inside the stock exchange? My only regret is that they didn't try for something more photographic (or glamorous? remembering the Ballets Russes movie)... perhaps involving a danseur & a lift so that we could see a little more of her. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Apparently NASDAQ takes pictures of their market-closers and openers in front of the exchange -- that's why if you scroll down the NASDAQ link you'll see swan Somogyi at the corner of 43d and Broadway. And I agree, a danseur and a lift with Jennie would have been more fun. Maybe she was the only dancer who agreed to go...
oberon Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 She must have been shivering. Someone once described her as "plucky"...I'll say! And so much more. So glad she's made it back after her injury. NYCB hasn't been the same without her.
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