did the California fog bring you visions and love facing as far away from Brooklyn as an American can possibly be your children thick with curls running in the wet sand squishy toes and starfish pools (rows of invisible arms inside billowing bell shaped sleeves, saying come come come and be free) I hear the […]
Stephanie Silvia
Stephanie Silva directed her own modern dance company in New York City and is a student of American poet Diane di Prima. She teaches movement and writing.
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Taken Off the Endangered List
The horse does not go into the forest with us (She remembers the long days of the long hunt) (The spear in flank and bloody meat roasting on sticks) The horses skirt the edges around The pack moving sure-footed on moss floor Ten by ten by ten by three The pack is gathering shrouded by […]
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Listen Up
The last time I saw the A Reason To Listen Poetry Collective, poet Therese FitzMaurice was cooing about the dying of the sun, her hand on her big pregnant belly. The same voice mesmerizes during a rehearsal of “Wind,” a piece in the collective’s new show, Spoken Synergy: A Collaboration of Spoken Word, Music and […]
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October and it may have rained
October and it may have rained once or twice but I have been flushed hot in a tee shirt on the Trinidad dock at the blessing of the crab fleet on a Thanksgiving morning We never really know and you wouldn’t think it but the rain comes slowly like fog the grayness moving quietly steady […]
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Banging on Everything and the Kitchen Sink
When was the last time you left the theater with everyone around you blown away? Last night, the performance ensemble Stomp delivered at the Van Duzer Theater. Whatever you thought Stomp was — it was more. Tickets are still available for tonight’s show. Yes, this is the popular group that turns everyday actions like sweeping […]
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Timeless Dance from Cuba and Beyond
This weekend presents the opportunity to travel from the evolving landscape of movement that is being called “new dance” all the way back to the ancient roots of Afro-Cuban dance and drum. On Friday, Synapsis in Eureka presents Leslie Castellano and Like Houses Through a Kaleidoscope, a dance and acrobatic stilt performance by two nomadic […]
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you are my apple skin
you are my sweet my apple skin you are my sun my summer wind you were my apple my apple skin a green blue river running over our young ardor your hands your apple wooded melodies pollen from the oak table top dusting my golden shoulders, my apple cheeks your songs my April wind across the cotton bedsheets sweaty […]
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A Dream of a Dance
For those who were turned away from the standing-room-only performances of A Midsummer’s Night Dream in 2011, you are in luck. Director Heather Sorter has restaged her original ballet — a dance version of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy of errors — for the large venue of Eureka High Auditorium. This soiree into the Bard’s land of enchantments […]
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Paul Taylor’s Dancers Deliver, then Disappoint
Despite Paul Taylor’s importance as a choreographer and the superhuman talent of his dancers, for some time he hadn’t been my favorite among 20th century modern dance masters. During Musical Offering, the ambitious opening dance at the Van Duzer on Tuesday evening, I became a born-again fan. This contemporary tribal dance revolves around a clan’s […]
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The Lusty Paul Taylor Dance Company Returns
The legendary Paul Taylor Dance Company returns for its third appearance at the Van Duzer Theater on Tuesday evening, May 7, followed by a cavalcade of spring concerts at local studios. Paul Taylor’s exuberant style of movement has become a staple of the modern dance idiom, influencing it for over 50 years. Building on classical […]
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Make sure to wear purple
Make sure to wear purple somewhere on your person (it could be hidden) lilac budlets on little girl underpants or red-violet denim Keds with zippers Remember this advice a butterfly barrette, plastic snap, blue-violet wings or a striped plum beanie and knitted scarf in Massachusetts in January or play with an Indigo dyed jump rope […]
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Dancing Into Spring
From students exploring their powers to established artists venturing in new directions, the spring dance season offers two highlights this weekend, with more coming up soon. This Thursday, April 4, at the Van Duzer, the HSU department of theater, film and dance presents On the Edge of Your Feet, an evening of contemporary dances. The university’s […]