Category: Articles By Cindy
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Watching the Pendulum in Portland
Watching the Pendulum in Portland “The Europeans come out of angst (like, two world wars, for example) and a deep desire to work artistically, spiritually, to make a statement. Americans grow from our vaudeville roots, and we just want to have fun!” –Laura Green Portland, the pearl of Oregon, has been called a European city.…
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The Real American Folk Song
The New York Times SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1999 THE REAL AMERICAN FOLK SONG By CINDY MARVELL ”Teddy Roosevelt loved ragtime. Woodrow Wilson didn‘t like it. Calvin Coolidge wouldn‘t say.‘‘ So writes Max Morath of Woodcliff Lake in ”The Road to Ragtime,‘‘ to be published on Sept. 1 by the Donning Company Publishers of Virginia. With…
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The Original Object, Redux
For jugglers, a sphere can be considered the simplest or most complex of objects. Two acts recently challenged limits and created beauty with these objects. Dmitry Chernov, having already won a bronze medal at Cirque de Demain in Paris as a teenager, performed his shaman routine in the Big Apple Circus. Les Objets Volants, a…
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The Juggler A Novel by Rachilde
The Juggler A novel by Rachilde. 215 pages soft cover. Available through Rutgers University Press; 109 Church St.; New Brunswick, NJ 08901. $12.95. The republication of Rachilde’s novel “The Juggler,” now translated into English for the first time since its original publication in 1900, marks a rediscovery of the prolific French author Marguerite Eymery Vallette…
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Summer Circus Keeps the City’s Parks Jumping
Summer Circus Keeps the City’s Parks Jumping by Cindy Marvell A partner can mean twice the awe onstage, twice the laughs, yet not always four times the props. Several contemporary circus duos illustrate these aptly entertaining friendships as part of Circus Now’sSummerstage series. With a name that belies their gentle, disarming opening, The Incredible Incredible,…