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...Classical Theatre of Harlem, Chan established a network of art institutions that could outlive the “Godot” production itself. He moved to New Orleans for the entire fall semester in order to build his project from the bottom up. Chan taught classes at local universities and set up art workshops with New Orleans high school students. He even arranged potluck dinners for people in the neighborhoods where he would later stage the play. These dinners allowed Chan and his collaborators to discuss specifics of the performance, such as setting and themes, with his future audience...
...themselves. “What he was able to do with space was unprecedented,” he said. “He was described as a ‘machine for living’ but it was the living that was most important to him.” Local artist and photographer Helen K. Eddy said that she was able to relate more strongly to the late architect after Weber’s talk. “My art, like that of Le Corbusier, is to express beauty,” she said. “Some artists create...
...like to be pegged,” Brown said. “I don’t like to be told who I am.”As part of the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lectures Series, Brown spoke about art and dance with Richard Colton, a local dance instructor. What could have been a structured interview became an intimate discussion concerning her movement, her aesthetic theory, and her career. “You never have enough opportunity to hear artists talk. They interview more athletes,” lamented audience member Martha Armstrong Gray, Dance Director...
...experience of Ada Fisher. This fall, the Salisbury, N.C., physician ran for a state general-assembly seat representing a mostly white, working-class district. Several black college students who campaigned on her behalf were dissed by peers as "Uncle Toms." Then, in September, as Fisher walked toward the local Republican Party's booth at a county fair, a white man told her to go back to the Democratic Party booth "where she belonged" and to support Barack Obama. Never mind that the 61-year-old is a third-generation Republican. She also recalls hearing of white people urging friends...
...will move swiftly to temper the party's tone, using the model of Ronald Reagan, who, he says, "made it cool to be a conservative." But one of Steele's more daunting mandates will to be to broaden the GOP's base of black voters. "I'll tell local chairmen, 'If you want to be chairman under my leadership, don't think this is a country-club atmosphere where we sit around drinking wine and eating cheese and talking amongst ourselves. If you don't want to drill down and build coalitions in minority communities, then you have to give...