"Imagine that your body is a nation; its skin is its borders. Express that in movement. Go." This invitation to self-expression was the opening to David Dorfman Dance's performance of their latest piece, See Level, last Friday night at eight in the Goodwin Theater of the Austin Arts Center.
0 CommentsIn anticipation of the February 14 and 15 performance of his senior thesis, The Tripod sat down with Sasha Brätt to discuss his experiences at Trinity and in life. Tripod: Tell me a bit about your background. What are some of the highlights of your prior experiences with the arts? Sasha: I did a little acting and stage work when I was in grade school.
I missed the whole Beck thing in high school (sixth grade, really). Remember when everyone bought "Odelay" and "Mellow Gold" and walked around saying "I've got two turn-tables and a microphone"? My musical tastes back then weren't quite as developed as they are now.
If this week's movies had a theme, I suppose it would be luck. Was it good or bad luck that artist Frida Kahlo was hit by a bus--it brought her years of pain and suffering, but that pain and suffering motivated and inspired her to create phenomenal works of art.
FRIDA Feb 3-8 (2002) Director: Julie Taymor. Screenplay by Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Clancy Sigal and Anna Thomas, based on the biography by Hayden Herrera. Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas. Hayden Herrera's 1980s biography of Frida Kahlo turned this Mexican artist into a feminist cult figure, who expressed her physical and emotional pain in folk art-inspired paintings.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If a person is killed, but the media doesn't report it, did they really die? If a soldier kills a civilian, but can justify it to his superior, is it murder? Yes. This film gave the most honest portrayal of the perils of revolution I have ever seen.
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