The Brooklyn-based dancer Storyboard P is a master of “flex,” a style of movement that incorporates everything that’s been developed on the street — “breaking,” “popping,” “posing” — and many things that have not yet been dreamt of in other dancer’s philosophies. Storyboard seems to levitate as he glides and bends and contorts, confounding gravity...
Hope RekindledThis past week has given us more hope for our diseased republic than any other time in 50+ years of paying attention. Observing and participating in a long-overdue peaceful uprising, occupying the streets, feeling the righteous energy of people of all ages, colors, faiths, and wealth (or lack thereof), has…
Used traditionally, in most Western music the bass keeps time churning out fat quarter-notes based on the root of a chord. Ba-dum-dum-dum-dum. On his addictive new recording Tines of Change, the visionary master bassist and composer explores his instrument’s under-utilized sonic possibilities. The concatenation of squeaks, grumbles, twitters, growls, whistles, knocks, cries, howls, and, yes, nice...
