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every year, Shen Yun unveils an entirely new lineup of dances, songs, and musical scores. At the core of Shen Yun’s performances is classical Chinese dance, with China’s numerous ethnic and folk dance styles rounding out the evening. In a collection of short pieces, audiences travel from the himalayas to tropical lake-filled regions, from the legends of the culture’s creation over 5,000 years ago to the story of Falun Dafa in China today, from the highest heavens down to the dusty plateaus of the Middle Kingdom.
Above: Dance Imperial Archers, 2010 • The show moves quickly through regions, dynasties, and legends. Ethnic and folk dances fill the stage with color and energy. Tremendous athleticism, thunderous battle drums, and masterful vocalists are all set to animated backdrops that transport you to another world.
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CITYWIDE CHIN, COUNCIL “GOING GREEN” City Council Member Margaret Chin received recognition from the League of Conversation for her support of “green” policies and commitment to making the city more sustainable and environmentally responsible. Chin’s score, a perfect 100 percent, put her in a field of 22 of her peers to receive perfect marks. 48 council members were judged in 11 categories and were given passing marks for “pro-environmental action” in 2010-2011. The City Council’s mean score was 90 percent for the 2010-2011 year, up from 68 percent in 2008-2009. According to a statement released by her office, Chin was specifically recognized for her primary sponsorship of a bill aimed at increasing the quality of the air we breathe in our office buildings and residential high-rises. The bill, which was enacted in December 2011, requires buildings that replace or install new air handling systems on or after 2013 to use new air filters that produce significantly better indoor air quality. STATE SUPREME COURT ORDERS REPORT OF 9-1-1 EMERGENCY CORRESPONDENCE RELEASED Borough President Scott M. Stringer called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to release a report detailing the efficiency and effectiveness of the city’s 911 emergency responses after a judge ordered the records be made public.
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Borough President Stringer’s NYU Concessions Fall Short, Critics Say | By AlAn KrAwitz In his recent conditional approval of NYU’s 2031 core campus expansion plan, Borough President Scott Stringer was able to take a few items off the massive table. But many local residents, preservationists and politicians still believe the plan is huge, despite its recent reining-in. The revised plan, sent by Stringer to the Department of City Planning last Wednesday, includes a density reduction of 19 percent, or 377,000 square feet, of the project’s proposed 2 million square feet. Further, public strips of parkland around Washington Square Village will be designated and preserved, while the temporary gymnasium on the site of two community playgrounds will be eliminated, as will the proposed dormitories in the Bleecker Building. An affirmation was also secured regarding NYU’s commitment to provide space for a K-8 school. Stringer has also emphasized the economic benefits of NYU’s plan for New York City, which promises to create around 9,500 permanent jobs and as many as 18,200 new construction jobs over the next 20 years. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), was not impressed by the modifications to the plan. “Paring down the buildings in the NYU plan doesn’t address the fundamental problem; unless NYU develops a long-term strategy for directing its growth outside of the neighborhood, they will be taking over more and more and more of the Village, tipping the balance of neighborhood character and becoming more and more the overwhelming and dominant presence in the area,” he said Berman noted that other schools such as Yale, Harvard and Brown had all faced similar issues. “Those schools managed to work with their respective municipalities for winning solutions, including satellite campuses in nearby areas of the city where large-scale growth was wanted and needed and would add to economic development and diversity, not deaden it,” he explained. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said he would give serious thought to any NYU plan to return to the borough with a renewed
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presence. “It would be a great asset both for the Bronx and NYU if the school would consider returning to the Bronx and building a campus in our beautiful borough,” Diaz said. Berman said that the revised plan still dooms the Village to be overtaken more each year by NYU. He added that Stringer’s vote was particularly disappointing since he didn’t hold a public hearing on the plan before making his decision, and he didn’t heed the recommendations of his own community task force on NYU development. “The amount of growth proposed is titanic and, just like the ship, might sink the community,” said Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council (HDC), of the modified NYU plan. “I believe, in terms of process, the [borough president] should have held a public hearing on this,” Bankoff said. “I know he has been working hard for several years on this topic, but by not holding a public hearing on it, he has deprived the people who have just come to an understanding of the proposal of a chance to voice their concerns to him.” Bankoff said that by not holding a public hearing, Stringer missed the chance to better inform his decision-making. Both the HDC and the GVSHP are part of a group, which also includes NYU faculty, that has retained the law firm of Gibson and Dunn to mount a legal challenge to the NYU plan. Assemblywoman Deborah Glick said in a statement that the NYU plan “continues to be a travesty” and that only minimal concessions were secured by the Stringer negotiations. However, Brad Hoylman, chair of Community Board 2, which voted against the NYU plan, had some positive comments regarding Stringer’s efforts. “The agreement announced today by the borough president with NYU is an important initial step that addresses major concerns identified by the Community Board, and represents the first time NYU has committed to any changes to its massive expansion plan,” Hoylman said. But he also reiterated that the board would continue to seek additional changes to the plan in the ULURP process with the City Council.
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What are your feelings on the proposed NYU expansion? I don’t really mind, just so long as Washington Square Park isn’t affected. This is where I spend most of my time outside of class.
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Do you think NYU could end up having a negative impact on the community? I don’t really see a problem [since Stringer’s revisions]. In your opinion, does NYU seem pressed for space? Space is an issue, but the campus is so vast I don’t really have a sense of how big of an issue it is as the school sees it. Plus, who knows what the campus population will be like by the time it’s finished.
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Do you have an opinion on the NYU expansion? yeah—in short, I think the university is as bad as the catholic church. They, fordham and columbia are all doing their communities a disservice with their expansions. Even after Scott Stringer’s conditional approval, which curtailed NYU’s plans? curtailed? did he stop them from taking over the neighborhood? lowering a building isn’t the problem. They’re taking over the neighborhood, driving up real estate prices, making it very difficult for people to even afford to live here. It’s a crime.
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After considering the concessions that NYU has made at the request of Borough President Stringer, how do you view the expansion in terms of its impact on the neighborhood? bringing jobs to the neighborhood, keeping the park, adding the [elementary] school, and making sure that the building [on Mercer St.] isn’t too ridiculous looking are important…so I guess it would be a good thing. Do you feel the addition of the four proposed buildings to this area would hurt the character of the Village? I don’t see anything wrong with it. People know this part of town is as much Nyu as it is greenwich Village. I think having the campus here is part of the charm. I certainly don’t mind it. We live in a city—there are buildings.
LaUra h., 20 (nYU StUdent)
Do you think the NYU expansion could be a bad thing for Greenwich Village? I’ve interviewed other people in the area who’ve had strong feelings about me being from Nyu. The school doesn’t have the best reputation in the neighborhood…Still, that’s an awkward question for me to answer, because I love Nyu. The school is already infiltrating the area, and from what I see we don’t need more buildings—aside from residence halls. I’ve heard that a lot of people get put into [apartment buildings] because there isn’t enough campus housing. Stringer’s amendments to the NYU expansion actually call for the elimination of 7 floors of housing above the Mercer Building. NYU agreed to that. Do you think that was the right decision? really? I think if anything, residential halls are the one thing the school needs more of.
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Tony Lowe’s Icon Eye Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (betw. 1st & 2nd Sts.), anthologyfilmarchives.org; 1 p.m., $9. Icon Eye is a film documentation of young Californian musicians as they spend time in the Portmore neighborhood outside Kingston, Jamaica, collaborating with the astonishing Rastafarian dub reggae vocal group The Congos. After the screening, there will be a discussion with the film’s principal players.
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Lee Brice Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St. (betw. E. 4th St. & Astor Pl.), joespub.com; 9:30 p.m., $20. There’s no mistaking that Lee Brice is a country boy. With his steel guitar strums and fiddle, Brice brings us to his world—a world of open fields and an America that most New Yorkers would find unfamiliar. Seeking to broaden his horizons and defy the border limitations of the country genre, Brice is a can’t-miss act that’ll give you new perspective on “redneck boys and country girls.”
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race Lee Boggs, a 96-year-old civic activist, has spent her life on the front line of almost every progressive movement in the last century, supporting the rights of women, minorities and workers. A resident of Detroit, Lee Boggs has just released a new book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. Boggs offers ideas for this generation of activists and plans for the problems of today. We sat down with Boggs to talk about activism, her history and advice for Occupy Wall Street members. Tell us about your latest book. What makes this American Revolution different? Well, I think it’s important to understand that we begin with a chapter in [the book] that says: “These are the times to grow our souls.” Most people don’t think of revolution in terms of growing our souls. I think it would be helpful to understand that the times we are in for this revolution are very different from what people usually associate with revolution. What I think is taking place is that we are at a very important historical transition at a cultural level that is as farreaching and as essential as [the transition] from hunting and gathering to agriculture 11,000 years ago. Most people think of revolution in a vertical way, in terms of the Russian Revolution and the seizure of state power. We have just come through the 20th century, where those revolutions have turned out to be colossal failures in terms of creating tremendous dictatorships. People have wondered whether it was possible to make a revolution. We are in the midst of a transformation of a fundamental nature, because the industrial age is coming to an end, particularly in a place like Detroit—a city that was once a national and international symbol of the miracles of industrialization and then became the national and international symbol of the devastation of deindustrialization. It is now in the midst of revitalizing itself, rebuilding itself, respiriting itself from the ground up in a way that people hadn’t expected. You have been a supporter of Occupy Wall Street. Can you give us your opinion of how the movement stands today? Well, as it happens, the Occupy Movement was a facilitator here of the movement in Detroit and the new book. I talk about it a great deal—I think it’s fantastic and I love what it has managed to do in terms of
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changing the conversation. But I think it has changed the activism to such a degree that it has not really encouraged people who are involved in the movement to imagine alternatives. I think that the Occupy Movement is going to have to begin doing more with imagination, a reimagination of alternatives.
ting around is very difficult. I mostly need a wheelchair. I realize that there are limitations. On the other hand, I know I have a tremendous amount of energy to have lived for as long as I have lived and to have experienced as much as I have experienced. I have never wondered about having another life.
What advice would you give to young activists involved in Occupy and other movements? How can they reimagine? I urge them to consider what time it is on the clock of the world. That is the first question I think you have to ask yourself; otherwise, you think that you only respond, react to everything. You watch the response to the Trayvon Martin murder in Sanford, Fla. We must understand that the murder of Trayvon in 2012 is very different from the murder of Emmett Till in 1955. We are at a very different time on the clock of the world. The murder of Emmett Till in 1955 sparked the public bus boycott a few months later, which was the spark for the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement began to change a lot of things in our country. It brought about a kind of revolution in values, which has in turn brought about a kind of counter-revolution, which I think has brought about the movements today—we’re seeing these responses to Trayvon and the Occupy movement.
What book should every young person read? I have two favorites. One is Hegel’s Phenomenology, which was written in 1831 and deals with the expansion of the human being and the human spirit. Another one that I think is a really fabulous book of this time is The Third World, by Alvin Toffler, which has been a bestseller for many years and which you can pick up at any secondhand store for practically nothing. What Toffler points out is that we have had three waves of civilization. The first wave was the agricultural wave; it’s when everything was based on the land. The second was the industrial age, where you have the people working to produce on the assembly line. You get a lot of standardization and specialization and concentration and centralization in that period. That period is now coming to an end, and we’re entering something called the third wave, where there is a link between the producer and the consumer and you have the intervention of the markets. That is where we are going now in the world. Grace Lee Boggs will speak at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium (66 W. 12th St., betw. 5th & 6th Aves.) Sunday, April 22 at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, email socialjustice@newschool.edu.
You’ve done more in the past 10 years than some people do in their lifetime. Have you ever thought, “Well, I’ve done my part, it’s time to settle down”? Well, I’m very old. I’m almost 97. I’m hard of hearing. I have a lot of weakness. Get-
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Get ‘Em While It’s (Not So) Hot New York’s elusive springtime deserves its own set of treats
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It is way too early to be thinking about the summer. It’s mid-April—taxes are behind us, Memorial Day looms far off on the horizon and you can’t walk past a garden in bloom without stopping to exclaim, like a 4-year-old, “Flowers! Pretty!” No way is it time to think about the summer yet. But. There’s a fine line between spring and summer, especially in New York, where the one can notoriously blend into the other in the blink of an eye. This week saw an uncomfortable preview when the temperature spiked on Monday to a near-record high, and even on steadier days, the midday sidewalks feel positively equatorial. There’s a fine art to this slippery semiseason. You can’t leap right into summer standbys; there are a solid four months of
real heat ahead, and anything you start doing now will be worn threadbare by Labor Day. Though we’re champing at the bit to unpack the sandals and shorts, that way madness lies. You must save yourself somewhere to slide to when August humidity turns the subway into the world’s most unpleasant rainforest—then and only then can you bust out the flip-flops and eat pints of Ben & Jerry’s with your head in the freezer. Right now, even frozen treats should be refined, delicate, virtuous; a minor thrill in your spring-cleaned day, still healthy and light—the cherry blossom to August’s overblown gardenia. The drinks from the Kelvin Natural Slush Co. (various locations, find them daily at @kelvinslush or this Sunday, April 22 at the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market Gourmet Food Truck Bazaar, 39th Street & 9th Avenue) are Vendy Award-winning Slurpees that come in flavors actually found in nature. More reasonable beverage than gut-busting dessert, their ginger, citrus or tea slushes are all perfect for sipping on an afternoon stroll. If you’re feeling feisty, add one of their fruit or herb mix-ins for a grownup version of Coldstone Creamery’s candy-coated free-for-all. Caramelized pineapple in the spicy ginger base is a match made in tropical heaven; add basil for an unexpectedly sophisticated kick.
The Soft Serve Fruit Company (1371 3rd Ave., at 78th St., or 25 E. 17th St., at Broadway, www.softservefruitco. com) is just what its name implies, to shockingly good effect. It’s just fruit, water and cane sugar, but the texture they get out of their magic machines is light years from that time you tried to make “instant ice cream” by pulverizing frozen bananas in your food processor, shorting the engine in the process. For everyone who’s ever cursed sorbet for being too icy and hard to scoop, this is a revelation. Banana is the most treat-like, especially when topped with crushed pretzels and warm peanut butter or maple syrup (yes, it’s natural, but I never said it was virtuous), but mango and strawberry are simply delightful, no adulteration needed. A proper Italian affogato is a perfectly respectable adult diversion, no kid’s bribe wrapped in classy packaging. OK, so it’s gelato, only a tiny linguistic step away from ice cream. But it’s a dainty portion of the stuff that is drowned in a shot of espresso, less blowsy than a Starbucks Frappuccino and
far more satisfying. At Maialino (2 Lexington Ave., betw. 22nd St. and Gramercy Park, www. maialinonyc.com), a Roman-styled trattoria perfect for leisurely lunches or a midday pickme-up, the gelato is fior di latte, sweet milk, and the espresso is dark and rich. Dawdle over this with a tiny silver spoon, watching the opposing textures merge and meld into a third while gazing upon the gated glory of Gramercy Park. Enjoy these now while your sanity lasts and you can still appreciate something more flavorful and interesting than the bluntforce frozen trauma of a Mister Softee cone. After all, those spring blossoms are already dropping fast—didn’t somebody once say something about gathering rosebuds while ye may? This is definitely what he meant.
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shen Yun “Simply astounding to watch, and a pleasure to the ear.” — OperaOnline
“Beautiful sound... strikingly intricate melodies.” — NYTheater.com
TwO GREAT CLASSICAL MuSIC TRADITIONS— ONE GLORIOuS SOuND FROM The MOMenT the gong is struck to herald the beginning of the show, you know you are in for something musically memorable. The Shen Yun Orchestra masterfully blends two of the world’s greatest classical music traditions, Chinese and Western. Ancient Chinese instruments such as the soul-stirring erhu and the delicate pipa lead the melody on top of a full orchestra of Western strings, percussion, woodwinds, and brass. The Western orchestra with its energy and grandeur, and
the Chinese instruments with their distinct tones and styles, together create a dramatic new sound. VOCAl SOlOISTS
“Very moving in every way. It captivated all of my senses.”
— Alessandra Marc, world-renowned soprano Right: Haolan Geng, soprano. Each program is heightened by several moving selections from our singers.
The resounding voices of bel canto soloists are an integral part of the Shen Yun experience. each program is heightened by several moving selections from our singers. Their impassioned songs give voice to hopes that have shaped Chinese culture for centuries.
CLOTHING AN EMPIRE TheRe’S A ChIneSe SAYInG: “each dynasty has its own adornments,” and thus Chinese history is replete with a lavish variety of apparel. every year Shen Yun creates hundreds of gorgeous, hand-made garments spanning China’s dynasties, regions, and ethnic groups. “I saw here the best example about how fabric, clothing, and sleeves can enhance the movement and tell the story,” said famed designer norma Kamali. With traditional garb of the Manchurians, Tibetans and Mongolians, the costumes consist of imperial dragon robes, cloud capes, ornate headdresses and vestments, warriors’ armor, and celestial maidens’ long silky sleeves.
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PROJECTING TIME AND SPACE VIVIDlY AnIMATeD backdrops, grand as they are intricate, extend the stage and transport the audience. They are so remarkably true-to-life that audiences forget where they are and journey to another place and time. Spectacular settings reflect China’s landscapes, dynasties, and mythology. Some scenes even transcend this world, entering a majestic paradise
where fairies dance amid the clouds or in a heavenly palace. An innovation in the world of performing arts, Shen Yun’s projection designs synchronize all aspects of the stage—costumes’ colors, specific dance movements, props, lighting, the music of the orchestra—to create “a dream world of perfection,” as one audience member exclaimed.
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“an extraordinary experience... exquisitely beautiful.”
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5,000 yEARS OF DIVInEly InSPIRED CUlTURE
“It’s superb.
I am going to mention it on the news ... people should see it.”
WORlD’S PREmIER ClASSICAl CHInESE DAnCE COmPAny UnIqUE ORCHESTRA BlEnDIng CHInESE & WESTERn InSTRUmEnTS
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Emmy Award-winning news anchor
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the authenticity of it … from a spiritual level.” —Donna Karan Creator of DKNY
“so inspiring...
I may have found some ideas for the next Avatar movie.” — Robert Stromberg,
Academy Award-winning production designer for Avatar
“a beautiful show... fantastic!”
— Joy Behar,
auThENTIC ChINEsE, MadE IN aMERICa
Co-host of ABC’s The View
Based in New York, Shen Yun is reviving authentic Chinese culture, which has mostly been destroyed in China under communist rule. Today, you can no longer see a show like Shen Yun inside China.
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