dirac Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Carolina Ballet presents a triple bill. Quote The grand finale, “Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2” was choreographed by Artistic Director Zalman Raffael to a piece composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff which analyzed the purpose of our lives and our existence after death with a compelling story of a lost soul (Marcelo Martinez) clad in the white of innocence and trapped in limbo, guided by an angel (Jan Burkhard) and divine beings through the cosmos. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 A review of Karen Valby's "The Swans of Harlem" by Danyel Smith for The New York Times Book Review. Quote All of this is absorbing. Yet it’s the odd details that shine brightest: Sells recalls painfully losing whole toenails while learning to dance on pointe — and eventually pirouetting with such speed that she could “feel the actual physics of it all.” At age 7, Rohan contracted polio, “a bird of a child with legs suddenly caged in thick braces.” Shelton recounts a fairy-tale first date during a stint in Paris, riding the Ferris wheel at Jardin des Tuileries. And what is most remembered about a performance to Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings” is “the transcendent scene of 17 women onstage, swathed in the palest and pearliest of blues.” Precisely because there’s so much meaning and humanity in this kind of minutiae, it has been methodically clipped from stories of Black women’s lives. It’s unsurprising that early news reports about the Swans and their cohort described them as “black slum youngsters.” Link to comment
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