{"id":1319,"date":"2016-10-22T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2016-10-22T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:06:32","slug":"new-york-city-blog-oct-16-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog – Oct. 16 – 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sunday evening was spent for a few hours in The Frick Collection’s Music Room. The Carducci Quartet, two violins, one viola and one cello, played a lively selection of Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Beethoven.The Anglo-Irish quartet plays across a gamut of classical and modern. The concert began at five p.m., ended around seven and then it was on to dinner at Le Charlot, a very snazzy, local French bistro.<\/p>\n

Part of the City Center sprawl is the Studio 5 series that is presented in a 56th Street studio. It began with Damian Woetzel and Wendy Whalen, sitting on high chairs like life guards, talking to the 200 member audience sitting around the perimeter of the large, bare space. Whalen and Woetzel met in 1986 when both were fledgling dancers at New York City Ballet. Woetzel is now the Artistic Director of the Vail Dance Festival. The evening\u2019s program focused on Remixing A Festival From Vail to New York. <\/em>The workshop is the first of four about dance. The dancing began with Robert Fairchild preforming a solo dance that Woetzel critiqued. This was followed by Unity Phelan and Cameron Dieck, young NYCB dancers, demonstrating how to interpret various dance movements. Heather Watts joined in the discussion and led Phelan through a few suggestive steps. Cameron Grant was the pianist who tripped merrily along with the dancers.<\/p>\n

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Robert Fairchild coming round the bend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Unity Phalen, Heather Watts, Wendy Whalen, Damian Woetzel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wendy Whalen, Damian Woetzel and Cameron Grant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s an immediate, behind-the-scenes experience. I can\u2019t wait for the next three sessions.<\/p>\n

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