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The inaugural Unite Ballet Festival, directed by Calvin Royal III, took place at the Joyce Theater from August 13-18, 2024.
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On a steamy July evening, the arty fashionistas of Bushwick seem remarkably crisp and refreshed, wine spritzers in hand, as they gather for a rare showing by two rock stars of dance at Carvalho Park gallery in Brooklyn. New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns and postmodern minimalist Jodi Melnick have collaborated twice previously. This week they’ve come together to work with Diana Orving, a Stockholm and Paris-based textile artist, whose amorphous construction of silk organza and jute resembles a jumble of billowing white skirts—or an elaborate web spun by some giant insect—or a skyful of clouds viewed from a ropy hammock. Before the show, observers roam about, mostly keeping to the perimeter of the sculpture, then lean against the walls to wait for Mearns and Melnick to emerge.
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The inaugural Unite Ballet Festival, directed by Calvin Royal III, took place at the Joyce Theater from August 13-18, 2024.
FREE ARTICLEBefore digital audio, compact discs, cassette tapes with their ribbons of sound sandwiched within a small case, and pressed vinyl records, came wax cylinders to record and reproduce sound, thanks to Thomas Edison’s 1877 invention of the hand-cranked phonograph.
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