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THE BROADWAY MUSICAL FASHION SHOW BY SUSAN ALEXANDRA FW20

🍉🌈 🍉🌈 🍉🌈 🍉@SUSAN_ALEXANDRA made fashion soundtrack history with her musical fashion show in NYC for FW20 🍉🌈 🍉🌈 🍉🌈 🍉🌈 🍉

Fashion merged with broadway in New York over the weekend, all thanks to designer Susan Alexandra and it was a Bat Mitzvah to behold. Picture the scene, colourful style, flamboyant tracks and razzle-dazzle. 

The Susan Alexandra Fall 2020 musical was the first of its kind at fashion week.

She has in fact made fashion soundtrack history!

You’ll recognise her beaded handbags and jewellery…

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An Exercise in Vocal Release

An Exercise in Vocal Release

Meredith Monk by F. Scott Schafer, 1999 Anne Waldman, beginning her Entanglement Variations at the alter of Saint Marks Church, adorned with long black robe and white scarf, gave what felt and looked like a sermon. Moving closer to the audience with each section, Waldman delivered abstracted social and political commentary as a moral teaching – a story whose direction, if not astutely followed,…

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Patricia Hoffbauer / Jesse Zaritt & Jumatatu Poe @ Gibney Dance

Patricia Hoffbauer / Jesse Zaritt & Jumatatu Poe @ Gibney Dance

Photo by Ian Douglas I had seen photos advertising Patricia Hoffbauer’s show Dance’s for Intimate Spaces and Friendly People at the new downtown Gibney the many, many days I had been there over the last month, attending classes to keep myself dancing during a time when I have no projects lined up or clear idea of what I’m doing.  The photo, on a poster publicizing the burgeoning dance center’s…

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Kate Weare Company’s 10th Anniversary Season at BAM Fisher

Kate Weare Company’s 10th Anniversary Season at BAM Fisher

  Photo: Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

                        For Kate Weare Company’s 10th Anniversary season, we looked back at earlier work as well as forward to what’s to come. As Weare mentions in the program, relationships are central to her work; the whole first half of the show consisted of excerpted duets from longer works. Sitting in the front row of the intimate BAM Fisher space, I was highly…

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January Dispatches

EVERYBODY WANTS TO DIE: On Fred Herko and Charlie Hebdo By Li Cata

Photo credit: Jeremy Jacob Schlange

Suicide is in the news these days.

First, the suicide bombings popping up in the headlines (or buried in the backpages) on a disturbingly regular basis—at the time of this writing, there were two in Nigeria within days of each other, one in Pakistan, and the prior week’s more widely reported…

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