Props to my homeboy Audiotrixx for hitting 4,000 downloads for his latest mix on FoundationKL. Audiotrixx’s In Transition mix is dark and heavy, heavy, heavy. Just look at that track-list. Download! Audiotrixx - In Transition ( June 2008 ) 1 ) Timang Burung – Audiotrixx Intro 2 ) Critical Mass – Ben Sage 3 ) [...]

Saturday’s Gala at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center had a relaxed, laid-back feel that matched the hot, humid evening, but the outdoor setting and sticky weather didn’t stop the crowds from dressing up for the occasion. Nor was the event lacking in star power: Rita Moreno, who played “Anita” in the film version of [...]

Parasti šie mani raksti , kuri sākotnēji gatavoti kā recenzijas , pārtop parastos bērnu miega stāstiņos par to kā Artūram šur un tur gājis. Nekādu uztraukumu - šoreiz pavisam noteikti būs tāpat , dārgie lasitāji. Sākšu ar vārdiem - Ja kāds vēl šaubījās , ka šis koncerts pārsitīs visus apmeklētības rekordus , tad viņam diemžēl nāksies [...]

I’ve had Eurythmics on the brain ever since dancing to Here Comes the Rain Again on Tuesday night in Obamaerobics.  Although I haven’t watched any of this season’s dance competition So You Think You Can Dance, there was a fabulous piece last year to Eurythmics’ 1983 hit Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), performed by [...]

Yup, brainstroms. It’s a personal joke between me and Nora. You’ll never get it, so don’t trip. By the way, Urbanscapes was fun. It was great meeting up with Nora’s friends, hanging with old buddies like Shinji, Words, Cliq and the rest as well as enjoying some (very necessary) personal space away from work etc. Yes, because today it’s back [...]

Designed by NYCB soloist Craig Hall The New York State Theater was packed on Friday night, and not just with the typical crowd of New York City Ballet devotees. Young people, too, had flocked to Lincoln Center to see the Dancers’ Choice program, a benefit for the Dancers’ Emergency Fund. Principal dancer Jonathan Stafford [...]

This weekend at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, the Christopher Caines Dance Company presented Spirits, a full-length work consisting of several intimate dances. Although I originally thought that the title referred to ghosts (especially because the work is dedicated to the memory of a close friend and colleague of Artistic Director Christopher Caines), [...]

The Rebel Scum’s video for, Bak Datang, their first Malay single, is finally out on YouTube. I remember being invited to the shoot, sometime last year, but I had to decline because I was working on a pitch. (And the shoot was scheduled on a Sunday afternoon. Yeah, what the fuck, right?) Well, too bad. Otherwise I could’ve [...]

A curtain call for Damian Woetzel (click to enlarge) Photo by Evan - Please do not use without permission. Watching one of my favorite ballet dancers - who I’ve watched for about fifteen years - dance his final performance and take his final bow at the New York State Theater last night was not easy. Writing about [...]

NYCB dancers in the final pose from Robbins’ Glass Pieces, photo by Paul Kolnik Tuesday’s evenings program at New York City Ballet took the audience on a musical journey from Bach’s solo piano and solo cello pieces, to an early twentieth century violin concerto by Alban Berg, to Philip Glass’s minimalist music of the 1980s.  The [...]