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  • “The Tempest” [by Alexander Lazarus Wolff]

    November 27, 2021

    Each shock and shudder pummels the shipas it cleaves through the waves. The updraughtbillows the sail, and combers floodthe storm-struck deck. Our crew, flayed by spray,squint ahead through the onslaught,making way to that island…

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  • Making an Inventory [by Lera Auerbach]

    November 26, 2021

      Bruegel's Sky – Fragment [Photo by Lera Auerbach] To live, one must make an inventory: Item 1: The sky. It is everywhere.   Item 2: People. There are many of them.   Item…

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  • Making an Inventory [by Lera Auerbach]

    November 26, 2021

      Bruegel's Sky – Fragment [Photo by Lera Auerbach] To live, one must make an inventory: Item 1: The sky. It is everywhere.   Item 2: People. There are many of them.   Item…

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  • Performing time present – Petter Jacobsson’s Ballet de Lorraine [by Tracy Danison]

    November 25, 2021

    Petter Jacobsson’s “Air condition” opens the Nancy Opera’s “Ready Made” 21-22 season. Photo©2021 Emilie-Salquebre Originally laid out to impose rational charm on what I get the impression was a rather higgledy-piggledy daily reality, there…

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  • Performing time present – Petter Jacobsson’s Ballet de Lorraine [by Tracy Danison]

    November 25, 2021

    Petter Jacobsson’s “Air condition” opens the Nancy Opera’s “Ready Made” 21-22 season. Photo©2021 Emilie-Salquebre Originally laid out to impose rational charm on what I get the impression was a rather higgledy-piggledy daily reality, there…

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  • Poets on Thanksgiving: A Roundup [by Stacey Lehman]

    November 25, 2021

    Some favorite Thanksgiving poems, starting with this one by Terence Winch: Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I…

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