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WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL on May 6, 2012 will present WestFest all over Westbeth – a series of site-specific dances at Westbeth Artists Community. For APPLICATIONS to perform, and further information, click here.

On May 6th, 2012 WestFest will present the second annual WestFest Site-Specific Dance Festival throughout the intricate architecture of the famous Westbeth Artists’ Housing Complex in the West Village. Dance will decorate the hallways, stairwells, basement crevices, the laundry room, the courtyards, the engine room and the roof bringing life to a building dedicated to [...]

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miriam chaikin’s new chapbook

my life runs its course i run along beside it trying to get in Check out there is this moment and that moment on miriam chaikin’s artist page.

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Ruby Ornstein – new Smithsonian Folkways cd

Smithsonian Folkways has just published Ruby Ornstein’s cd, From Kuno to Kebyar: Balinese Gamelan Angklung. The music is played on a set of bronze instruments called gamelan angklung. Ms Ornstein, an ethnomusicologist, chose the tracks from hundreds of recordings she made while doing field work in Bali in the early 1960s. Not only is it [...]

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