Aspen Community Theatre is offering a free dance workshop on August 23rd from 10 am to 3 pm hosted by Marisa Post, the director and choreographer for Aspen Community Theatre’s fall musical, "Chicago."
It's after 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon and I am still recovering from a fantastic night in Aspen. After interviewing the band The Alternate Routes late Saturday afternoon on KSPN I felt compelled to hit the town. The band gave an amazing acoustic performance on-air and I was ready to catch them live at the Belly Up where they would open up for Devon Allman's Honeytribe. Before the concert I headed to the Wheeler Opera House to catch the sold-out comedy show "Laugh Your Aspen Off". The comedians were all locals- and the comedy was all for the local. Alexa Fitzpatrick shined on stage as well as comedian Carbone. Unfortunately I had to cut out after 2 hours of laughter, so I missed the last 2 comediennes-As I wanted to catch the Alternate Route performance at the Belly Up...and gotta tell you I am glad I did. What a high octane performance. After being privvy to their acoustic performance on KSPN I was blown away by their plugged in stage performance.
Aspen is a code word for elitism across the country and around the world, but is the word really justified when it comes to the arts that we get to see and feel? Or has the arts scene in Aspen veered inexplicably and inexorably toward kitsch and popular culture?
Quietly but inexorably, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (ASFB) has become the best show in town.
Under the matched-set directorship of executive director Jean-Phillippe Malaty and artistic director Tom Mossbrucker, the ballet has continued to, well, leap to new heights with their performances at Aspen Middle School, the strangest venue for dance this side of Lincoln Center. The company ratchets things up again Friday and Saturday nights at 8 PM with a Mixed Repertory program, followed by an entirely different program August 12 and 13, 2006, as part of the annual Aspen Dance Festival.
As the “monsoon” rains poured from the skies in Snowmass Village last night, an energy of fire burst to the heavens from the Fanny Hill stage. Last night concert goers in Snowmass Village were treated to a night of massive free entertainment. The stage opened up with the electronic vibe of Particle that brought the crowd jumping to its beat, and craving for more as the last note was hit.
That was him outside Jimmy’s Friday night—unmistakably him with the big smile heading down the stairs into Cache-Cache or Campo di Fiori to no doubt eat as well as a man can eat. He was small for a star but then aren’t all stars growing smaller and smaller? You want them to be bigger because they are so big up on the small screen, and bigger still in our imagination, where we have seen them in so many guises we no longer know what is real. That’s the nature of Star Americana. The movies are still big: it’s just the stars that got small.
This week went to Diavolo presented by the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. First, I wonder if the performers think it is weird to be in an elementary school for their performances (the location of the Aspen District Theater). It’s a great venue for spectators. Small enough there isn’t really a bad seat in the house…unless you are in the front row to the side next to the speakers.
