Split sides videorecording / Cunningham Dance Foundation presents Merce Cunningham Dance Company
By: Charles Atlas
R.I.P., Mr. C.
modern dance would have been a different thing without you and it will never be the same.
Reviewer: Beth
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A moving presence
By: Kent De Spain
a film by Kent De Spain, UT Theatre and Dance faculty member.
Reviewer: Beth
A strange eventful history : the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and their remarkable families
By: Holroyd, Michael
From the 9/6/08 Times review by Michael Arditti: “He [Holroyd] creates a saga in which the glories of an older generation are dissipated by children.”
Reviewer: Beth
Christian Lacroix : histoires de mode
By: Christian Lacroix
Quoting Eddy in the BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous, “Lacroix, darling.”
Reviewer: Beth
The Fosse style
By: Debra McWaters
Choreographer for musicals “The Pajama Game,” “Damn Yankees!,” “Sweet Charity,” “Cabaret,” “Pippin,” and “Chicago,” among others
Reviewer: Beth
Trisha Brown : so that the audience does not know whether I have stopped dancing
By: Peter Eleey
The Walker Art Center presents the exhibition Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing, the centerpiece of a spectrum of programs honoring the 40-year career of this contemporary dance icon at a moment of increasing interest in the broad sweep of her work and its influence. Providing an in-depth look at Brown’s visual arts practice, the exhibition features a survey of the artist’s drawings going back thirty-five years, a live early performance work in the gallery, and videos of seminal early performances.”
from e-flux: http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/5332
Reviewer: Beth
Buried Child
By: Shepard, Sam
Last Fall, Sam Shepard made a visit to the Fine Arts Library. The evening before he arrived, I thought I should read his Pulitzer Prize winning play, Buried Child. In addition, Beth Kerr, Theatre/Dance Librarian told me if you can only read one thing before Shepard arrives, read Buried Child. This play is about a dysfunctional family, set on a farm in the Midwest. Shepard does an excellent job describing the strained relations amongst the three generations of family members. The family secret, the mystery of the “Buried Child” is revealed in the third act of the play. Now I recommend it to patrons who look at the Shepard materials on display and want to read something by him.
Reviewer: Laura Schwartz
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Barber, E. J. W.
The best parts of this book are the chapters on the development of string. Barber’s hypothesis is the ability to make string is an important precursor to the development of civilization. Her point is that once people can make string, then they can tie things together. This means you can make rope and rope can be used to tether an animal or child, it can be used to make fishing lines, fishnets, bags and just as importantly you can use string to carry items on your back. Once you can carry loads then you can begin to move goods. And once you can do these things you are on track to make coiled pottery and weave.
What interested me the most was the description of how easy it is to make string. The easiest way is to use already existing vines, the second step according to Ms Barber is to take plant fibers and roll them on your leg to make an every expanding string. Rope is merely a number of strings put together. The evidence cited in this book is pottery and wall paintings, since most fabric doesn’t survive. Barber examined thousands of early pots and paintings looking for evidence of early cloth making.
Reviewer: Susan Ardis
Empire Falls
By: Richard Russo
I am really recommending any of Richard Russo’s works. All of them are great and you can follow a rise in the quality of his writing as you read newer and newer works. The basic premise seems to be the same in each of his novels (at least the 4 of his 5 which I have read): they’re all set in a small town in the American Northeast and full of wacky characters — some in dire situations, some suffering for caring about those in dire situations, and some suffering at the hands of those in dire situations. Either way, the characters are what are great about Russo’s writing. He makes you believe that these unreal folk are real and he makes you suffer along with them, while at the same time you often want to give them a smack-in-the-head wake-up call. This title won Russo the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 2002. Basically, it is a chilling commentary on Columbine, but the plot, as in his other works, is almost incidental to how the characters react to what is occurring. Russo is always funny and often at the same time heart-wrenching. His books are quick reads and all wonderfully realized.
Reviewer: Beth Kerr
The magical life of Long Tack Sam [videorecording]
By: Ann Marie Fleming
Interesting glimpse into the world during WWI-WWII and especially vaudeville life during this time.
p.s. Great fashions and costumes!
Reviewer: Beth
