Dance of the Hemp Dragon

  舞麻龙 “hemp Dragon Dance”, Sichuan Province, China   Dance of the Hemp Dragon Ancient Chinese hemp harvest festival’s created a magical day of celebration.  This celebration would birth a magical creature…  The Hemp Dragon… For the Qiang people living Read More …

Inquiry into Boogie Woogie, 1944

Inquiry into Boogie Woogie “Can you remember perhaps some time when your radio was discoursing Jazz(by chance, of course) and you suddenly had an almost irresistible impulse toward delinquency” the New York Times, JULY 16, 1944 Defying gravity in 1953 Read More …

No One Puts Baby in a Corner, 1956

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche   Lili Berde performing her forbidden dance ‘The Marihuana’     No One Puts Baby in a Corner Read More …