June 2011
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Billy Bragg's The Big Busk poll →
YOU can help decide what songs everyone will sing and play together with Billy Bragg at the opening night of Lincoln Center Out of Doors on July 27. Voting is now open - the top vote-getters will be added to the the set list. You can vote multiple times, and we encourage you to tell others WHY you think we should all sing your picks together? What makes it a great busking song?
For a video of...
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Watchlincolncenter:
Midsummer Night Swing: Soul Train on Fox’s Good Day New York
MYFOXNY.COM - You can relive the past at Lincoln Center on Tuesday as the ‘Soul Train’ rolls in. Julie Chang gave viewers a special preview of Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center.
Music from the dance show that hit a high note in the 1980s will keep your feet moving in Damrosch Park as the 40th anniversary is...
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WatchHighlights of @LCSwing’s opening night with the Jonathan Stout Orchestra, dance instructor Heather Flock @liliblue and the Brooklyn Bombshells, @DJRyanSwift, and a dance floor full of appreciative dancers. Tonight, more swing as well as ballroom dancing with Swingtime Big Band.
For extra credit, see if you can spot NY Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, as well as Lincoln Center...
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Tonight: Ryan Swift is DJing Opening Night of... →
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If you’re in NYC head down to Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park for the kickoff of Midsummer Night Swing from 6-11pm! I’m spinning before and during the breaks of the fantastic Jonathan Stout Orchestra. Heather Flock is teaching the lesson and directing the Brooklyn Bombshell Revue’s performance.
View from the DJ booth, Midsummer Night Swing Opening Night 2010
Free tickets for the...
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Spoek Mathambo, who plays @LCOutofDoors on Aug 10... →
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WatchGreat video of @asphalt_orch’s performance at the @bangonacan marathon. See them at #LCOutofDoors on Aug 3, before Trey McIntyre Project’s collaborations with Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Free. info at www.LCOutofDoors.org
thebigcityblog:
The Asphalt Orchestra makes an entrance.
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Metro - @Lincoln_Center @LCOutofDoors: New spaces,... →
Great piece on our dance offerings, including a quote in which I admit “Overstuffing is part of my aesthetic.”
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It’s not really a way to directly sell tickets.... →
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“When you look at the reasons for it, at least half of this is [because of] heart...”
– Dr. David Ansell explains why, on the South Side of Chicago, the life expectancy of an African-American male is eight years lower than that of a Caucasian man. On today’s Fresh Air, Ansell talks about caring for and treating the poor and uninsured in Chicago’s Cook County Hospital.
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The legendary Globe press's last show poster:... →
So happy to be a part of pop culture history.
My Artist Statement. →
My work explores the relationship between postmodern discourse and life as performance.
With influences as diverse as Kierkegaard and Roy Lichtenstein, new tensions are generated from both explicit and implicit meanings.
Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the mind. What starts out as vision soon becomes corroded into a hegemony of greed, leaving only a...
