ORIENTALiSH

Notes on Orientalism (and notes for students) by an uneasy lover and long time practitioner of the "Oriental"dance and yogic arts....

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Monday, June 30, 2014

Yoga Class Registration at NYU!

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Photo by Najmat It's registration for Summer II Monday/Wednesday Yoga classes at the Palladium Gym.  This class will begin on Monda...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Julian Barnes at Le Poisson Rouge (with pianist Angela Hewitt)

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A beautiful show at LPR. I only wanted to hear more of Barnes' own work.  He read from his beautiful story based on Sibelius' lif...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

New story in "Sequestrum" Magazine

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Artwork from Sequestrum.org I'm honored to have a short-short story "If Love is an Idea" published in the very new, cura...

Reading Freud's "Dora" as Fiction

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Ellen Gallagher's "Odalisque" 2005 considers the "male gaze" in psychotherapy.  Last night, I attended a firs...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

On Randa Jarrar's "Why I Can't Stand White Belly Dancers"

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There were a lot of hackles raised within the dance community last week when Randa Jarrar, a Palestinian-American writer whose work I'm...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Shimmies: A Sourcebook: "Turkish Twists" (Part 4)

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The "Turkish" hip twist is a horizontal movement, with the hips swiveling front and back.  The navel moves with the hips.  There...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Shimmies: A Sourcebook (Part 3): Three Quarter Shimmy

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In class, we did this as a version of the walking shimmy.  The important part of this movement, whether walking or doing the movement in ...
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