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Florence Guides
Just like they announce on their website, Florence Guides are made up by a group of art graduates, passionate of the city that they were born in.
Jams in Amsterdam
Improvisation of contact is a dance technique and style in which the dancers lean on each other using the mass of their bodies during the movement, respecting certain basic rules, but unleashing instinct and improvisation. It´s considered that during the early 1970s, the American dancer Steve Paxton was the first one in laying out the basics of this art, especially developing intense duos which lacked a musical background, in other words, a pair of dancers touching each other, falling, counter-weighing each other, standing up, caressing each other in a mutual balance which ends up being a mix of dance, theatre and a martial arts duel. The atmosphere which is created among the dancers, and with the crowd in general, is cooperative and equal. This accessible and slightly elitist atmosphere favours the celebration of informal encounters which receive the name ´jams´, and which the promoters of this style of dance usually celebrate around the world. Today I want to talk to you about a place in Amsterdam where you can attend both classes and weekly ´jams´: it´s the Studio 100 dance studio, located on Wittenstraat 100 (between Westerpark and the Jordaan). Every Saturday afternoon a large amount of dancers from different styles, origins and levels of experience (an advantage of improvisation is that there´s no need for a long technical learning curve before you begin to dance) gather there. From 2pm until 4pm they have a class (with a different teacher every week) to explain the bases of contact improvisation, suggest basic movements to start each dance and (most importantly) clarify some security notions to avoid injuries in the heat of...
African Innovations in New York
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the largest in the U.S. and the second largest in New York City. However, it would have been even four times larger if the planning regulations had not obliged in 1895 to make an alteration of the original plan leading to the reduction of its excessive size. The current building was opened in 1897, but until the decade of the seventies of the twentieth century, the museum did not own its independence, being a subdivision of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts, Letters and Sciences, which also included the Academy of Music, The Botanical Gardens Museum and the popular Infancy Museum of the New York district. The size and variety of its collections is at the height of its huge number of square meters and its spectrum ranges from stunning masterpieces of ancient Egypt to the Center for Feminist Art Elizabeth A. Sackler, which displays, among other pieces, the seminal installation of Judy Chicago´s “Dinner” Within this impressive array of exhibits, the collection of African art (in fact the Brooklyn Museum was one of the first to present an exhibition of African art in American territory, in 1923), comprised of more than 5000 pieces that run more than 2500 years of history,makes it the largest of all existing in the United States and is especially outstanding In the last year this extraordinary collection has undergone a meticulous process of reorganization that has finally culminated in a new way of presenting the pieces based on chronological and contextual criteria which moves aside the until now eminently geographical approach This new presentation of these parts is...Mangiamo Valencia
At Mangiamo, with two stores in Valencia, they offer fresh homemade pasta and pizzas to takeaway.
Las añadas de España Valencia
At Las añadas de España in Valencia, they offer an assortment of international wines, as well as courses and oenological tastings.
International Film Festival in Venice
The International Film Festival in Venice is one of the most important in the world, and if you´re a lover of the seventh art, this is a must.
Merci Merci Paris
Merci Merci dedicates itself to fair trade albeit from another point o view: all the benefits of their sales go to Third World children´s projects.
Sterling Gallery Budapest
Next to the Danube, Sterling Gallery Budapest offers designs in jewellery and small complements crafted by the best local artists.
Expo Bigger than Life en Viena
Perhaps more a stylist with the insight needed to refine and extend the techniques and methods in combination with existing cinematic conventions of art, literature and Victorian theater that a true innovator, the truth is it´s hard to argue that David. W. Griffith deserves the honorary title of “father of cinema,” if we consider the way his extensive work decisively shaped the language and syntax prevalent in film making for over fifty years starting with the most basic elements of the trade. The great Austrian director Eric von Stroheim, responsible for some of the most memorable films of all times, which in its infancy, having begun working as an extra, became assistant director of Griffith, said of him that he took charge of poetry and beauty in what until then was a form of cheap tawdry and tacky entertainment For the truth is that this film was essentially in those early years of the century something of a confusing matter in America, movies were fast moving consumer goods that were bought by the meter and displayed as part of vaudeville and variety or booth. Some of those petty first exhibitors hoping to make some money with what was essentially still considered a novelty with a bad reputation and a low prestige miles away from any artistic pretension (a famous assertion of a famous theater critic in 1905 referred to the convenience of shooting anyone who genuinely enjoyed a movie) became a term yet not too long ago as the highest magnates and rulers of the mighty and dazzling Hollywood Empire, whose powerful influence soon would seize the dreams and...
