Chava Lansky

3 weeks ago | dancemagazine.com | Chava Lansky

Joe Bowie has always loved baking. He grew up helping his mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in the kitchen, and while a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group he became known for the homemade baked goods he brought in for co-workers. As his performance career wound down, Bowie attended the French Culinary Institute, then spent a decade teaching bread baking, developing recipes, and working at bakeries across New York City.

3 weeks ago | pointemagazine.com | Chava Lansky

On a blazing hot day last summer, the environment inside the New Jersey Performing Arts Center was cool and hushed. A who’s who of U.S. ballet dancers entered from the wings, launching themselves across the stage in pointe shoes and unitards, while attentive audience members in suits and cocktail dresses looked on from their seats.

3 weeks ago | dancemagazine.com | Chava Lansky

Giant beach balls, glowing air-traffic batons, a rock quarry, references to Irish dance sensation Michael Flatley, a paleobotanist, and the Venus de Milo: These things make up the wildly imaginative world of SISSY, a new dance-theater play written, directed, and choreographed by Celia Rowlson-Hall, which runs April 24–26 at Baryshnikov Arts.

3 weeks ago | dancemagazine.com | Chava Lansky

On a blazing hot day last summer, the environment inside the New Jersey Performing Arts Center was cool and hushed. A who’s who of U.S. ballet dancers entered from the wings, launching themselves across the stage in pointe shoes and unitards, while attentive audience members in suits and cocktail dresses looked on from their seats.

1 month ago | thejewishnews.com | Chava Lansky

Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former Nazi Herbert von Karajan, in off-Broadway’s “Last Call.”(JTA) For much of the 20th century, the world of classical conducting was dominated by two figures: Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, who fiercely competed with each other throughout their prolific and illustrious careers.