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Hip-hop Round-trip: London to New York

"Blak Whyte Gray"
Boy Blue
Michael "Mikey J" Asante, Creative Direction and Music
Kenrick "H2O" Sandy, Choreography
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
Lincoln Center White Light Festival
November 16, 2018

Members of Boy Blue held a post-performance chat last night after the US premiere of "Blak Whyte Gray," and it was a shock to hear their British accents. Their intense and acrobatic hip-hop dancing was straight from the streets of New York – having made

film review

Godot and Warhol in New York

"Waiting for Godot"
By Samuel Beckett, directed by Garry Hynes
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York
November 5, 2018

"Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Opening November 12, 2018

In the mid-20^th century, Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” seemed like an end game. Two vagabonds meet daily by a tree, and hope for a deliverance that never comes. In

Humanity in Splitsville

"Split"
Lucy Guerin Inc
Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York
October 13, 2018

Two women – one naked, one in a modest blue dress – dance parallel figures to the sound of drums, on a bare stage marked off by a square of white tape. The gestures suggest a range of human activities: play, sport, religious ritual, repetitive work, rest, sex, sleep, and dance itself, ballet and modern and folk. The moves are identical but look different, articulate and sensuous

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