No one told me Quinquin was a woman. Maybe he was played by a woman so that the Marschallin’s lover would seem less masculine so that he doesn’t overpower her. The way Quinquin got down on his knees and kissed her made it look like she was his master. The Marschallin obviously loved Quinquin, but it was a different kind of love. It was kind of like the way I love my puppy.
Add comment December 4th, 2013What stood out for me the most was the choreographed moves of the fairies, who in a sense became the forest while dancing as a unit. In this fairy-composed forest, Lysander tries getting away from Helena; they don’t run, they dance. It’s almost as if they are playing a game of tag.
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I love how Armajani combines visual art with written words. I think she is trying to bring out the point that just as words can make a statement, so to visual art can be used as an outlet for (in her case) political critique.
Add comment December 4th, 2013I loved the intensity of the scene when Romeo and Juliet first meet. They flirted on a careful balance between innocence and mischief; it seemed precisely the way Shakespeare intended it to be.
Add comment October 29th, 2013Fall for Dance
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What was so clever about the use of music in the first performance was that there was none; it radiated from the feet of the dancers.
I noticed how well the song choice matched the mood of each individual dance. When the music was ominous, the audience felt it too.
The vibrancy of the yellow alongside the lavender flowers struck my eye- I couldn’t help but snap a picture of it. You don’t see much beauty like that down in Brooklyn. Why can’t art expose itself in nature, too? And then, peeking out from the right you can see some brown deathly looking things. . .
Well, what on earth was this doing here? Yes, nonchalantly taking up space among all the beauty of the greens and flowers is this wilted, brown . . . thing. Of art in nature, there is not only life and beauty.
In San Francisco, summer of 1967, roughly 100,000 people congregated on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, denoting what would be the central political and social transformation of the Hippie Revolution. San Francisco was the undisputed heart of the social movement, as it became a melting pot of politics, music, drugs, and creativity. The hippie riot was also characterized by the complete lack of social and sexual inhibitions. As concepts like gender equality, communal living, and free love were continuously brought into public awareness, people began questioning everything about themselves and their environment.
The effects of the many social changes proposed during the Summer of Love are seen in the 1970’s and are felt in modern society. The hippies behind the revolution, also known as flower people, were an extensive group, many of which had suspicions about the government and opposed the Vietnam War. Some held concerns over art, including music, painting, and poetry, while others were more focused on religious movements. Only a handful cared for politics. What all of them had in common was their enthusiasm for incorporating fresh ideas and insights into both public and private life.
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