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Tuesday December 30:

December 29, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

Gifts for impoverished artists and art lovers … [Read more...]

Gifts

December 29, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr 1 Comment

Dear Reader, I hope you are enjoying your holidays. I hope that if you went home, you came back before your family forgot they invited you; that if you stayed put for a "quiet" holiday, you didn't suddenly feel bereft; that if you spent the long weekend partying like it's 1999 (it's something else), the headaches you woke up to weren't too awful. I won't have a whole lot for you in the next … [Read more...]

Thursday, December 11:

December 11, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

Benjamin Millepied and wonder Thomas Forster … [Read more...]

The ballet boy with movie star magneticism

December 11, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

But first, Benjamin Millepied. The increasingly sought-after choreographer (and City Ballet principal) can make inventively odd dances, often when he's working in a minimalist mode. His 2005 quartet for men, "Circular Motion," at Fall for Dance, and his "Double Aria," at the 2005 New York City Ballet fall gala, transferred the workmanly, incremental procedures of Steve Reich or early Trisha Brown … [Read more...]

Being somebody

December 8, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

I once had dinner with a cinematographer. "There's a song about you!" I exclaimed. "It goes, I AM a cin-e-muuh-TAW-grapher...." The cinematographer smiled: "Isn't it the only song about us?" Yeah, probably. Which is one reason it works so well as prologue to Faye Driscoll's "837 Venice Blvd," the dance-drama that played at Here Arts Center in the South Village for ten days earlier this … [Read more...]

Apollinaire, Thursday December 4:

December 3, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

Faye Driscoll's miraculous dance-drama "837 Venice Blvd" … [Read more...]

Apollinaire Scherr

is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, as well as SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to... Read More…

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