You just have to ask me for it. Interview with the Vampire, S1.01: In Throes of Increasing Wonder
I love Franklin Einspruch's snarky take on Odd Nerdrum's paintings at Forum Gallery. Warming to Nerdrum's new work, Einspruch reports in the NY Sun that the Norwegian painter studied with Joseph Beuys. Who knew? His review ran in April and the show is already down, but here's an excerpt and some images from the gallery's…
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Director Joji Matsuoka guides actors, led by Kaoru Kobayashi in the central Master chef role, through simple stories that don’t resort to the histrionics of the usual melodramatic fare
Yahoo Star Shammi Kapoor – the original Rockstar of Hindi cinema, best known for his histrionics, energetic dancing style and unique mannerisms redefined the romantic image of heroes on Bollywood s…
The arrival of the Dinan M235i won't make you forget about the 1-Series M. The new coupe is so refined that you might start to miss the raw 1M's histrionics.
The arrival of the Dinan M235i won't make you forget about the 1-Series M. The new coupe is so refined that you might start to miss the raw 1M's histrionics.
He is known for his insatiable Need For drama. Histrionics Are his drug. He requires frequent dosing Of idolizing Chants by crowds. He does not believe in Science Or in reason Or in truth, Which to him detract from The ardent fervor He craves as complete Fealty Proof. For Sammi's Weekend Writing…
The author debunks some common misconceptions about gesturing and offers keys to finding a balance between stiffness and wild histrionics. Could your body language be more expressive? Do you inhibit your natural body language when you’re public speaking because of self-consciousness? Maybe you’ve been told (by a well-meaning but misguided person) that you wave your […]
Vogue described this collection as “a spoof on ancient Egypt as seen through the eyes of Hollywood,” and its look as “Cleopatra meets Sid and Nancy, complete with trompe l’oeil tattoos and a jewel-of-the-Nile dress made entirely out of safety pins.” Understated the collection was not. While some critics were beginning to tire of Galliano’s histrionics—“By now he has established that at each season he will marry two improbable themes,” asserted critic Amy M. Spindler—Vogue remained supportive. “Outlandish! Unreal! Why make clothes no one can wear?” the magazine asked, answering: “Because the best ideas are born from extremes.”
Dworkin would become the ur-figure of so-called anti-sex feminism, a contentious term used to characterize feminist opposition to pornography, prostitution, and S&M. Her reputation, forged through thundering speeches and legislative efforts as well as her writing, is one of stridency, man-hate, and paranoid histrionics. In her work, rage is authority; her imperious voice and dirty mouth make for a feminist literature empty of caveats and equivocation. And reading her now, beyond the anti-porn intransigence she’s both reviled and revered for, one feels a prescient apocalyptic urgency, one perfectly calibrated, it seems, to the high stakes of our time.
Julie Sedova and Lubov Egorova in the 'Pas des Crotales' from Petipa's 'La Fille du Pharaon' - (early 1900's). Petipa's break, 'La Fille du Pharaon,' was an extravaganza in the best sense of the word. None of us can possibly imagine the splendour and opulence that must have held the stage - or alas, imagine for it ever to grace the stage again. The ballet was first given in 1862 as a vehicle for Italian guest ballerina Carolina Rosati. The libretto was taken from Gautier's 'Le Roman de la Momie,' in turn inspired by the excavations in Egypt: When Lord Wilson and his assistent John Bull spend the night in a pyramid seeking shelter from a sandstorm, they end up in the lord's romantic reverie, in which the main mummy comes to live and guides him to her former life, thousands of years ago. There and then she was Aspiccia, the beautiful daughter of the pharao. Wilson becomes Ta-hor, carving a niche for himself as her love interest and saviour in a ballet that lasted some 5 hours, including masterly crafted dance scenes (such as an all female dance for Huntresses, a Grand Pas for six ballerinas embodying different rivers), and spectacle involving a dive into the Nile, a fight with a lion and an apotheosis with living gods. The unparalleled succes of 'La Fille du Pharaon' ensured Petipa's position as first balletmaster with the Imperial Ballet. In that capacity he was to remain unchallenged for over 40 years. The ballet was to accompany Petipa throughout his career, as he revised it from time to time, culminating in the big revival of 1898 when Matilda Kschessinskaya danced the lead. Important ballerinas like Anna Pavlova, Julie Sedova and Olga Spessivtseva danced Aspiccia frequently in the early 20th century. After the revolution 'Fille's' position of 'über-ballet' was 'taken over' by Swan Lake, which by by then, politically motivated, had been recycled as a simple story of good versus bad, something Fille du Pharaon and similar ballets with a subtler storyline and 'bel canto-like score' could not 'aspire to' in the harsh climate of 1920's Russia. The rich and expensive production and its upkeeping will not have helped either. The ballet was last given in 1928, starring Marina Semeonova. It took another Frenchman, Pierre Lacotte, to recreate it a century later (for the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow). Lacotte's highly agreeable, trimmed down version honours Petipa's storyline and some of his steps. Fille's choreographic notation is preserved (albeit in a less than complete state) in the Sergeyev Collection, housed at Boston's Harvard University. The grand ballets of Petipa (with the exception of the Tchaikovsky trilogy) have long been treated with poor insight: artistically dismissed on base of stage effects, histrionics and mime scenes, while their scores were misunderstood by ears used to a more symphonic and or intricate orchestral sound. However, the dawn of the 21st century saw most of these unclever ideas subside, for the reconstructed versions of Petipa's ballets prove that both their theatrical concept and their pure step-based achievements can hardly be overestimated.
