A few months before she died, Asha Greer wanted everyone to wake up. We were sitting on the porch of her little house in Miran Forest, near Batesville, on a cool October day. She was reflecting on art and tea, life and death, and I asked the beloved artist, spiritual teacher, and longtime Charlottesville resident […]
In Under the Veil, Iranian-born choreographer Miki Liszt offers an intriguing and deeply personal investigation of what she calls in a program note “the ways in which cultures reveal and conceal women.”
stage What is it about Charlottesville and art? Whence springs the rich, organic, artistic funkiness that pervades this place and its people? After a night of Shentai, I have decided that perhaps the nine Muses, in a wild, ululating, naked race to strew creativity across the earth, lingered here longer than other places. It’s in […]
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “magic” as follows: 1. the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces; 2. conjuring tricks performed to entertain; 3. mysterious and enchanting quality; 4. (informal) exceptional skill or talent.
Well, if you’re looking to see this definition in the flesh, here’s your chance.