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Tell me a little bit about Hold Time. How did the album come together? All of my records sort of start out the same way. I go through my tapes that I've been making for well, half my life, basically. Since I was 15. I write constantly, so there's a lot of material to choose from and there's a lot to discard...
...method used by Joop Caboort throughout the show to emphasize the minimalist nature of Kylián’s choreography. A dancer, concealed behind another until this moment, shifted to the right quickly and almost imperceptibility, revealing that there are in fact two. Without regard for a definitive start or end, the curtain then fell, rising again as “No More Play” continued. “Black and White” revels in such play between the evident and the hidden, the proper and the audaciously inappropriate. It is a dark game that questions...
...Love,” in which she adapted both lyrically and melodically. Traoré also incorporated funny ditties that she learned as a child into her performance. Traoré is a natural performer who spontaneously beams and breaks into languid dance as she sings. Her songs start off slowly but pick up momentum as she and her band members start to sway back and forth with enthusiasm. In one of her songs, “Zen,” Traoré croons, “Oh, que je suis zen,” before belting the same lyrics...
...years, Presidents have used this image of omnipotence to mask a reality of inaction. The pattern got its start in the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon appointed the nation's first energy czar, a Coloradan named John Love. The arrival of the handsome Westerner was announced with appropriate czarist fanfare, and Love went right to work on a plan to reduce the amount of energy that Americans consumed. But he quickly realized that Nixon didn't really want Americans to consume less energy; he wanted people to think that he cared about the issue, even if he didn't. Love...
...Some interpret Sarkozy's comments as sniping that the Czechs are not up to the task of running the E.U., a task they took over from Sarkozy himself at the start of the year. There is also whiff of 'Old Europe' sneering at the E.U.'s newer eastern European members. But Hans Martens, chief executive of the European Policy Centre (EPC), says it is more a reflection of a Gallic instinct to intervene...