Dance is hard to see *

In the new issue of Kaleidoscope I came across an article on the new work of the dancer Michael Clark & his company and trying to find out more … just discovered these elder ones ..

It is in attitude quite close to traditional ballet, though refreshingly breaking down boundaries … crossing into …

The Disorder of Things

One hardly hears anything anymore about Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who once started as Federico Fellini’s assistant on the set of 8 1/2, except that there has been her birthday the other day. But she might be worth to be recalled for some of her extra ordinary films or as the Harvard Film Archive …

IWD – International Women’s Day

According to UN definition .. International Women’s Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, ...

Read de Beauvoir, don’t put it down ..

... ends today’s essay by Barbara Vinken in the taz, and I guess she makes a still actual point here. ‘faces’ of Beauvoir from Simonedebeauvoir.kit.netNot only is it good to recapitulate how women had to fight (like for these nowadays ‘common’ rights like voting, access to universities, .. etc) ... but also to learn …

let’s get feminist: recalling Simone de Beauvoir, 1908

Feminist Simone de Beauvoir, the influential french intellectual and author will have her 100th birthday this week.
Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, her scandalous 1949 account of what it meant to be female – regarded as the founding text for the modern women’s movement. She met Jean-Paul Sartre in …

.. understand islam …

Even though a bit late, but still a selection worth to go through is the hint from bookforum.com regarding a compiling review in the last issue of ‘The New York Review of Books’, which goes through several titles on Islam and combines it with a selection on the headscarve and the veil’ under the …

Medea alone – interesting, yet ….

‘Medea’ the old myth of the furious woman, passionate, betrayed, full of revenge .. has been reworked by numerous writers and theater plays, but among the more interesting interpretations are surely the one of C.Wolf’s polyphone ‘Medea. Voices’ and Heiner Müller’s text, which he had straightened down to the essential staff.
Stripped down further …