SHOW #3 REASONS TO BE PRETTY

We'll be heading to the Lyceum Theater at 149 West 45th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues immediately after class on Wednesday, March 24th to see Neil LaBute's new play REASONS TO BE PRETTY. The show starts at 8pm is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. (Bring $$ or food so you won't be hungry during the show!)

The website url is www.doesthisplaymakemelookfat.com
Check it out for more information!

Here's Neil LaBute talking about beauty with Time Out New York theater critic (and past TRaC guest speaker) David Cote: the interview

Here's the short film from the REASONS TO BE PRETTY website:

Pictures of Us in Different Places at Different Times Doing Different Things

Ask Your Mama! 3/16/2009

Backstage at Carnegie Hall.

Oh my god, it's ?uestlove!

This was scary.

Writing on the Street 3/18/2009

This does not look awkward in any way.

There was probably a horn honking at the moment.

important TRaC announcement

Important safety video up on the Main TRaC Blog! Make sure to check it out....

www.High5TRaC.blogspot.com

Have a safe day.

~eric

ASK YOUR MAMA at Carnegie Hall (8pm)

Ask Your Mama! Music by Laura Karpman, on a text by Langston Hughes

"Hot jazz, German lieder, cha-cha, and Afro-Cuban drumming come together in this collaboration between four-time Emmy-winning composer Laura Karpman and five-time Grammy-winning soprano Jessye Norman, based on Langston Hughes’s epic poem, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A heady mixture of intersecting cultures, Ask Your Mama! brings together the collective memories of America and the hope for its future in a compelling tapestry of orchestral music integrated with technology and sound samples drawn from a dozen traditions."

Go to this site to download/read the Langston Hughes poem and listen to Laura Karpman, the composer, talks about ASK YOUR MAMA.

The ASK YOUR MAMA blog.

Here's info about the show and video on the Carnegie Hall website.

Carnegie Hall
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 8 PM
57th Street & 7th Avenue
be there by 7:40 pm!

directions by Subway:
A, B, C, D, or 1 to Columbus Circle
N, Q, R, or W to 57 St./Seventh Avenue
E to Seventh Avenue

Peck vs. Moody

Here is a link to the complete critique of Rick Moody's book, The Black Veil, ranted and argued by Dale Peck. You know, the one that started, "Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation."

Here's a very long, but worthwhile, response written in The Believer Magazine.....basically, it's all about 'SNARK'.

The flamewar started by that review made it into every literary circle. Even the New York Times Magazine weighed in on the issue.

All of this for us to think about. Basically, the debate is: What is the role of the critic? Everyone's got a different opinion. And everyone is right. And wrong. :)

Paul Taylor Dance Company at City Center

Paul Taylor (b: July 1930) is one of the foremost American choreographers of the 20th century.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company has represented the 'gold standard' of the modern dance world for more than 50 years. In the decades since the company's first performance, Taylor’s provocative choreography has not only won him accolades and acclaim, it has cemented his position as a cultural dance icon and one of history’s most celebrated artists.

Check out this interview with Paul Taylor.

Check out this little essay, written by PT, called Why I Make Dances.

Check out clips of Paul Taylor’s Piazzolla Caldera as depicted in Matthew Diamond’s 1997 motion picture documentary Dancemaker, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Multi TRaC 2009 has begun!

Woop! Woop!

Multi TRaC class begins tomorrow at the Jacob Blaustein Building in midtown Manhattan. The Jacob Blaustein Bulding is located at 165 East 56th Street between 3rd Ave and Lexington Ave. (It's close to the corner of 3rd Ave.) You can take the 4,5,6 or E,V trains to get there. If you take the 4, 5, or 6 train, get off at the 59th street stop and walk south to 56th and make a left. If you take the 6, E, or V train, get off at the 51st Street Station and walk north to 56th and make a right. You will need a photo ID of some kind to get into the building.

It is imperative that you get to class by 4:30. I will be there to meet you in the lobby, then you we'll go up together to the conference room we're meeting in. If you are late, tell the security guards who you are and they will call meto come down and escort you up. Please be on time!


Any problems you can contact me at eost@high5tix.org.


NOTE: Your first show will be immediately following class tomorrow. We will leave class tomorrow a little early to walk over to City Center for the Paul Taylor Dance Company, which begins at 7pm. Bring some food and/or money for a snack on the way.

SAVE THE DATE! Our second show will be at Carnegie Hall next Monday, March 16th, at 8pm! Check out the show here: www.askyourmama.com