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Comment on What makes a Balanchine ballerina? Meet Carol Sumner. by Carol Sumner

Carol Sumner — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:51:15 +0000

Debra, this is all good stuff! Love what you did with mine, can’t thank you enough!!

Comment on Dance preservationist Norton Owen honored with ‘Dance in Focus’ film award by Sally Clements

Sally Clements — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:54:40 +0000

Is there more besides a picture. I love your picture!

Comment on Marie Bryant put a bun in Betty Grable’s oven by Kevin Spicer

Kevin Spicer — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:11:57 +0000

That she can be attached to so many dance and cinema greats of the mid 20th Century is fantastic. She is worthy of a properly researched biography. I suspect more revelations about WHO did WHAT may come to light! http://jsalmonte.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/in-focus-marie-bryant/

Comment on In Hines vs Davis, Sammy wins by decision in the first round by debra

debra — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:27:13 +0000

Isn’t that something, Sandi? Davis truly talking thru his taps.

Comment on In Hines vs Davis, Sammy wins by decision in the first round by sandi kurtz

sandi kurtz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:40:31 +0000

Thank you so much for such a lovely clip — the dancing was wonderful, but what touched me the most was the shot of Davis’ shoe as he was putting it on, and the big worn spot next to his toe tap — the evidence of all the work that goes into the seeming effortlessness.

Comment on Jack Cole invites you to a ball by sandi kurtz

sandi kurtz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:29:00 +0000

I think it’s interesting that in both of these clips there’s a real sense of menace associated with the waltz — in the Merry Widow I think I even hear a quote from the Ravel La Valse.

Comment on Between “Pina” and a hard place by debra

debra — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:49:53 +0000

Woody and Jacqueline, thank you for these comments! Just today, the film got its official Academy Award nomination as Best Foreign. Woody, thank you, especially for sharing that memory. Go see the film — you gotta see it in the theater, it’s 3-D! — and send me your thoughts. Cheers, Debra L.

Comment on Between “Pina” and a hard place by Woody Schofield

Woody Schofield — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:40:33 +0000

Debra,

I am wanting to see this film as I was curious what it captured of Pina’s work. I have been a fan of Pina’s for 20 years and saw several of the BAM performances beginning in the 90′s . I at times was amazed at her fantastical and epic theater on subjects, eg. “Palermo Palermo” with the audience facing a massive brick wall that filled the entire proscenium until it fell back and crashed onto the stage with dust and pieces of brick flying about and dust (that she brought from Palermo) floating into the audience. I had just returned from a Dance Theater of Harlem tour in Palermo and the smell was exactly from Palermo. The dancers performed amongst the broken brick for the remainder of the performance with plenty of vocal theatrics touching on Italian culture. Pina was an amazing choreographer and director. It’s unfortunate the film may not pay adequate tribute to her significant contributions to the dance world.

Comment on Next up for Meryl Streep: Maggie T. takes cooking lessons by mike schlesinger

mike schlesinger — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:06:20 +0000

The scenes of Marilyn singing were not replicating the films themselves, especially as she was performing numbers from different movies. I took it to be taking place in a rehearsal hall, so the “choreography” was simply her own.

And unless you’re making some sort of punning inference to Ms. Williams’ sexual preference, I believe the word is “thespian.”

Comment on Marie Bryant put a bun in Betty Grable’s oven by debra

debra — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:35:56 +0000

I need to look into the Loring school. Everything happened there. Thanks for your comments, Larry B and Bob B.