Tell Me Why Podcast: Dance Choreographer Hilary Easton
In this edition of the 92nd Street Y's Tell Me Why podcast, host Julian Fleisher talks with Hilary Easton, native New Yorker and choreographer (she started her dance training at the Y at the age of 10), who will be presenting the world premiere of her witty, sensuous new dance-theater work, The Reclamation, at this year's Harkness Dance Festival in February.
Easton has been thinking about the connections and confusions between humans and nature. She looks at the way we romanticize the natural world while we fear and defile it, and at what sorts of corrections result from our interventions and abuses. In The Reclamation, the stage space (with its limitations) is a microcosm of our small planet, where dancers (Alexandra Albrecht, Michael Ingle, Joshua Palmer and Emily Pope-Blackman) and actors (Steven Rattazzi and Jean E. Taylor) vie for livable territory - and find it diminishing. The tension between man and the natural world is not straightforward - humans are not purely bad, nature is not always innocent, and the dance goes in some surprising directions.
The podcast offers both her serious and fun sides, even revealing her Jackson (Michael or Janet) preference.
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In this edition of the 92nd Street Y's Tell Me Why podcast, host Julian Fleisher talks with Tony Award-winning lyricist David Zippel, whose credits include City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl, Hercules and Mulan, among others. Zippel, the artistic director for the next Lyrics & Lyricists concert at the Y in February, It Started With a Dream: Lyrics He Wrote, Lyrics He Wishes He Wrote, shares his plans for the show, what it's like working with Liza Minelli, his favorite lyricists (including Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel) and much more.
With all the hidden treasures in NYC, it’s easy to pass one up. However, having just returned from the first program of the 39th season of Lyrics and Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y, a smile still on my face and a song—or many songs—in my heart, I must point out this gem.
Lyrics and Lyricists celebrates the Great American Songbook. These musical concerts are exceptional, and the talent covers the range of theatrical possibilities. Rob and I first attended a program when friends who had a subscription were unable to make a performance. The following year we began to subscribe. The theater is beautiful and spacious. I don't believe there is a bad seat in the house.
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In this edition of the 92nd Street Y's Tell Me Why podcast, host Julian Fleisher talks with Elliott Sharp, key figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. As mentioned in our previous post with film maker Bert Shapiro, Sharp is coming to 92YTribeca on November 20 for an evening of performances and a screening of the documentary about him, Doing the Don't. For now, listen to the self-professed physics geek talk about his music, the famous people who have lived in his East Village apartment and his quick demonstration of Mongolian throat singing.
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In this edition of the 92nd Street Y's Tell Me Why podcast, host Julian Fleisher talks with Chip Kidd, famed graphic designer, bestselling author and comics aficionado. Kidd's most recent book project, Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan, is set for release on October 28. Listen to the interview for a fascinating background on Batman in Japan, comics in general and a peek inside the "fun" world of Chip Kidd. He will be interviewing "comics god" Neil Gaiman at the 92nd Street Y on November 9 for the 20th Anniversary of the Sandman comic series.
Previously: Full video of the talk, Art of the Book, with Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd and Dave Eggers. Glaser returns to the Y on November 20 with creative director Stephen Doyle and art history lecturer Paul Stirtonfor Dialogues with Design Legends: Graphic Design.
Related: 92YTribeca is proud to announce its first 2D arts exhibition, Goddess, Mouse, and Man, featuring 3 of New York’s finest cartoon artists: Lauren Weinstein, Tom Hart and Matthew Thurber who will be teaching a class on Cartoon Storytelling.
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In this edition of the 92nd Street Y's Tell Me Why podcast, host Julian Fleisher talks with Marc Murphy, Executive Chef / Owner of landmarc [tribeca], ditch plains & landmarc [at the time warner center]. Recently featured on the Today Show, Murphy is one of the celebrity food judges in the Y's Mega Bites Recipe Challenge. Voting is now open for submitted recipes and you can win prizes just for telling us your favorite! Tune in for a great discussion on managing three restaurants in New York City and Murphy's secrets of the kitchen...does he prefer oil or vinegar?
In this edition of the 92nd Street Y's Tell Me Why podcast, host Julian Fleisher talks with Deborah Grace Winer, the new series artistic director for the Y's long-running Lyrics & Lyricists concert series. Tune in for a great discussion on legends of the American songbook and why "words matter."
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L to R: Bill Charlap (photograph by Carol Friedman) and Julian Fleisher
We are pleased to present a new podcast series of the 92nd Street Y, Tell Me Why with host Julian Fleisher. An accomplished jazz singer and New York personality (not to mention son of famed pianist Leon Fleisher), Julian will showcase the lighter side of the heavyweights who appear at the Y and make it one of the leading cultural institutions in the world. Listen to the first episode above where he interviews Bill Charlap, artistic director of the Y's Jazz in July concert series.
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