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Barber of Disruption Town

Barber of Disruption Town

How do? Welcome to my shop Let me cut your mop Let me shave your crop Daintily, daintily…Hey, you! Don’t look so perplexed Why must you be vexed? Can’t you see you’re next? Yes, you’re next, you’re so next! Bugs Bunny, Rabbit of Seville (1950) This Cardinal Barber Shop is the real fucking deal: it’s […]

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Dominique Serrand Life is a Dream

Dominique Serrand Life is a Dream

The phone rings. Can’t tell you who. I’m sworn. But trust me, Google images knows things. ΒΏQuΓ© es la vida? Un frenesΓ­. ΒΏQuΓ© es la vida? Una ilusiΓ³n, una sombra, una ficciΓ³n, y el mayor bien es pequeΓ±o; que toda la vida es sueΓ±o, y los sueΓ±os, sueΓ±os son. What is life? A madness. What […]

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Palo Alto Racist Sidewalk

Stanford Indian at 735 Emerson St, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense. Vine Deloria Jr. The Indian. Stanford’s mascot from 1930 to […]

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Palo Alto Racist Sidewalk
The Burghers of Calais

The Burghers of Calais

The Condemned Men of Palo Alto So here’s the shot. Stanford’s quad, that cathedral to optimism and endowments, and right there in the middle: six bronze figures who understood that sometimes the price of collective survival is individual annihilation. Rodin’s Burghers of Calais. Cast number seven, if anyone’s counting. Look at them. 1347, their city […]

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February 12, 2018 · Collusion

Chocolate Heads in The Anderson Collection

Chocolate Heads in The Anderson Collection

Figures in a California Landscape: a dance performance by movement troupe Chocolate Heads inspired by Manuel Neri’s sculptures in The Anderson Collection at Stanford University. This piece is part of a year long Aleta Hayes/Chocolate Heads project exploring the idea of California.Β Native Californian, Manuel Neri with his interest in the human figure, provoked this deepened […]

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LINES Ballet at Taube

LINES Ballet at Taube

Alonzo King LINES Ballet hosted an evening of music, dance, and discussion highlighting the company’s upcoming Spring Season world-premiere of SUTRA. Held at the Taube Atrium Theater, Wilsey Opera Center

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Your whole life is a rehearsal

Your whole life is a rehearsal

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. Judith Malina Look at him, Babatunji is DESTROYING himself in that studio and I mean that as the highest compliment I can give because destruction is the only path to the real shit, not the performance, not opening night where everyone […]

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