If you are feeling that your brain is very happy and content and have a desire to change that, I would encourage you to watch Swan Lake and immediately follow it with Black Swan. The juxtaposition of the smooth, ethereal dancing of Tchaikovsky’s ballet– which was first produced in 1870– and the gritty and rather disturbing …
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The Art of Live Performance
Allow me to paint you a figurative picture, not a real one because I have the artistic ability of a one-flippered penguin. Anyway, you’re sitting in the absolute worst seat in a concert hall. You can barely see the performers and your neck is craned to an angle that would make a giraffe uncomfortable. And …
From Stage to Screen: A Musical Transformation
I sat in the Packard Lobby on a surprisingly comfortable blue couch that wasn’t really a couch because it lacked certain aspects of a couch such as arm-rests and a backrest, but I digress. The reason I sat upon this not-a-couch was because we, the students, had been tasked to go and find a place to sit …
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