I can’t believe that it’s already been 5 months since I blogged about the the first annual Savannah Dance Festival, scheduled for October 18-20, 2012: The new Savannah Dance Festival and thinking big. I devoted an entire City Talk column…
I’m incredibly excited about the Savannah Dance Festival planned for October 2012. My entire column today is devoted to it. SDF board president Pat Alley, as I note in the column, is a daughter of the late great Emma Kelly…
I think the first Spoleto USA show that I saw was the opera Wozzeck by Alan Berg in 1997, a spare and stark production — a bit too spare and stark for me, especially after a big, rich dinner with…
I’ve been a huge fan of modern dance for many years — and I’m sorry that one consequence of living in Savannah is the relative rarity with which major companies are anywhere in the vicinity. So it was really nice…
Dancer — and in a sense historian — Vijayalakshmi was up first in this remarkable and beautiful night of traditional Indian arts at the Lucas Theatre. Dressed in white with gold accents, wearing stylized makeup, Vijayalakshmi gave a brief description…
I always believed that the Telfair Museum of Art should go modern with its new building. I won’t try to recap the decade-old controversy here, but many prominent Savannahians thought the planned new building should “fit in” — i.e, that…
In this post a few weeks ago, I reviewed the Savannah Arts Academy’s incredibly impressive Winter Dance Concert. Given the quality of that production — in terms of both dancing skill and staging — it was pretty easy to decide…
Last night I attended the 2011 Winter Dance Concert at the Savannah Arts Academy. I imagine many hear “Savannah Arts Academy” and assume that it’s a private school. It’s obviously not. The arts magnet high school is one of the…
