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New York City Ballet concluded its 75th anniversary year with its traditional summer residency upstate at the amphitheater of Saratoga Springs’s Performing Arts Center (SPAC).
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Last week as certain ageist opinions were being aired in Washington, D.C., five performers in a tiny NYC East Village theater quietly made a case for the power of creative longevity. “Unstill Life,” created and performed by Rinde Eckert, Risa Jaroslow, Margaret Jenkins, Jon Kinzel, and Vicky Shick, presented by David Parker and the Bang Group, opened for the first of four sold-out shows. The bicoastal project will continue March 21–24 in Oakland, CA. Clocking in at barely more than 30 minutes, the show is intimate and fleeting. Like life, it seems to say, look away and you’ll miss it.
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What a beautiful review! I saw the show in Oakland. You captured it eloquently. Thank you.