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Damian Woetzel is a retired Principal Dancer, formerly with the New York City Ballet where he performed from 1985 until 2008. In addition to his work at NYCB, he frequently performed internationally as a guest star and visiting artist with numerous internationally recognized companies including the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, until his retirement from the stage in 2008.[1]
Woetzel currently serves as director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program, which under his leadership aims to further the value of the arts in society, focusing on education, social justice, economics, and diplomacy. He has created events and programs furthering this work in venues varying from the National Performing Arts Center in Beijing, to the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, the home of Shakespeare in the Park. In addition to his role at the Institute, Woetzel is a producer and director of dance and music performances, including the artistic directorship of the Vail International Dance Festival, where he presents dance performances and commissions. Among his other recent projects have been Lil Buck @ Le Poisson Rouge, an award winning show featuring Lil Buck, Yo-Yo Ma and an array of stellar musicians; an arts salute to Stephen Hawking at Lincoln Center; and the first performance of the White House Dance Series, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama.[2] Woetzel works with Yo-Yo Ma on his Silk Road Connect program in the New York City Public Schools, and on "Arts Strike" events which they have pioneered as a format for artists to engage in public service. In 2012, Woetzel co-produced the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to honoree Natalia Makarova, and for the 2014 Honors he co-produced the salute to honoree Patricia McBride.[3] In 2009, Woetzel became the founding director of the Jerome Robbins Foundation's New Essential Works (NEW) Program, which over a five-year period initiated grants to enable the production of 35 new dance works. In March 2015, it was announced that Woetzel will curate a new series for the Kennedy Center's 2015-2016 season.[4]
Woetzel was a Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet from 1989 until his retirement from the stage in 2008. At NYCB, he danced virtually the entire leading male dancer repertory, and had works created for him by Jerome Robbins, Eliot Feld, Twyla Tharp, Susan Stroman, and Christopher Wheeldon among others. Woetzel also frequently performed as a guest star with companies including the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and starred in numerous television broadcasts and as the Cavalier in the Time Warner movie version of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. Woetzel has also choreographed a number of ballets for NYCB and other companies.
Among his awards, in July 2012 Woetzel was honored with the inaugural Gene Kelly Legacy Award - an honor jointly created by the Dizzy Feet Foundation and the Estate of Gene Kelly in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kelly's birth. Woetzel serves on the artists committee of the Kennedy Center Honors, the Knight Foundation's National Arts Advisory Committee, and was a member of the Harvard University Task Force on the Arts. Woetzel holds an MPA degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In the fall of 2010 he was a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School where he co-taught a course on performing arts and the law. In November 2009, President Obama appointed Woetzel to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, where he has worked on creating the Turnaround Arts Program, which now brings arts education to some of the nation's most challenged school districts. In April 2015, Woetzel will receive the Harvard Arts Medal.[5]
- 1 Career as Director and Producer
- 1.1 Aspen Institute
- 1.2 Vail International Dance Festival
- 1.3 Lil Buck @ Le Poisson Rouge
- 1.4 Kennedy Center Honors
- 1.5 World Science Festival
- 1.6 New Essential Works Program
- 1.7 Studio 5 Performance Series
- 1.8 Turnaround Arts
- 1.9 Arts Strike
- 1.10 Silk Road Connect
- 1.11 Other Education Work
- 1.12 Harvard Law School
- 1.13 New York State Summer School for the Arts
- 2 Dance career
- 3 Honors and Appointments
- 4 Education
- 5 Personal life
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Career as Director and Producer[edit]
Aspen Institute[edit]
In June 2011, Woetzel was named the Director of Arts Programs at the Aspen Institute.[6] Under Woetzel's direction, the Aspen Institute Arts Program brings together artists, advocates, educators, managers, foundations and government officials to exchange ideas and develop policies that strengthen the reciprocal relationship between the arts and society.
Among the events curated by the Aspen Institute Arts Program under Woetzel's direction (an exhaustive list of past and future programming can be found at http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/arts-program):
• In November 2011, Woetzel curated the inaugural US-China Forum on the Arts and Culture in Beijing, in partnership with Asia Society and the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. The four-day forum was the first in a series of cultural exchanges seeking to strengthen mutual understanding between Americans and Chinese through panel discussions, lectures, film screenings, museum tours, dinners and performance. American and Chinese artists and cultural representatives engaged in the forum included Joel Coen, Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma, Alice Waters, Liu Ye, Ge You and others.[7] Woetzel also directed a Public Forum in partnership with the Public Theater titled "Does Culture Make Us Who We are," hosted by Anne Hathaway with guests including Bill Irwin, David Brooks and Oskar Eustis.
• In March 2012, Woetzel produced a panel with Howard Gardner, the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Dr. Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology at Boston College, and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, examining the current state of the arts in education.[8] Woetzel also hosted renowned artists Eric Fischl and Chuck Close in a conversation about artists and their audience at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York.
• In June 2012, the Arts Program for the first time curated multiple sessions at the Institute's premiere public program, the Aspen Ideas Festival.[9] For nineteen sessions, Woetzel brought renowned artists, policymakers, arts administrators as well as leading Chinese cultural representatives for discussions, film screenings and cultural exchanges focusing on how the arts impact society. Sessions included "Culture and Conflict" with Palestinian-born ballroom star and educator Pierre Dulaine and Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven; a conversation between renowned producer Julie Taymor and former Disney CEO and current Aspen Institute Arts Program chair Michael Eisner; "Radical Creative Spaces" with architect Elizabeth Diller; "Arts and the City: Making Cities Sing" with Rocco Landesman, Dennis Scholl, Darren Walker and Richard Florida; among many others.
• In October 2012, the Arts Program under Woetzel's direction hosted the inaugural Aspen Arts Strategy Group, convening over 30 arts leaders from around the nation in New York City, including Yo-Yo Ma (Cellist & Artistic Director of the Silk Road Project), Rocco Landesman (Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts) and Joseph Polisi (President of the Juilliard School), as part of a year-long effort to shine a light on the Citizen Artists initiative, define the value of artist engagement in a wide array of civic roles, and begin building templates for engagement, collaboration and coordination amongst artists, institutions and administrators . On March 6, 2013, the Arts Program convened the second Aspen Arts Strategy Group in Los Angeles, partnering with The Music Center. Assembled participants included Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress/arts education activist Alfre Woodard, contemporary artist Shepard Fairey, and violinist/educator Midori. The event included an "Arts Strike" at Skid Row's Inner City Arts education center, and a Citizen Artists Public Forum at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
• In December 2012, Woetzel and cellist Yo-Yo Ma organized a participatory visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, where musician Arthur Bloom and his MusiCorps program help wounded warriors to overcome injuries and recover their lives through intensive music practice.[10] The visit was one of a series of "Arts Strikes" organized by Woetzel and Ma in the D.C. area, and the first to occur outside the classroom in a rehabilitation clinic.
• In April 2013, Woetzel and the Arts Program announced the appointment of cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the 2013 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, joining a roster that has also included director Julie Taymor, architect Elizabeth Diller, conductor Robert Spano, painter Chuck Close, actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith and others, along with Woetzel himself.[11]
• In June 2013, in partnership with the Public Theater and its director Oskar Eustis, Woetzel co-presented "What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money and Morals," a Public Forum event in Central Park's Delacorte Theater. The evening featured readings from Shakespeare's plays by Alan Alda, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Christine Baranski, Matt Damon, Raúl Esparza, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Lily Rabe, Vanessa Redgrave, and Gloria Reuben, plus a town-hall discussion led by renowned political philosopher Michael Sandel.
• In June 2013, the Arts Program under Woetzel's direction curated the second Arts track within the Aspen Ideas Festival, bringing together a diverse group of artists, cultural leaders and innovators to examine the growing role of the arts in realms from healthcare to education to peacemaking. The track, titled "Citizen Artists," included Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence Yo-Yo Ma, social entrepreneur and DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best, artist Leo Villareal, NYC Dept. of Culture Commissioner Kate Levin, MusiCorps founder Arthur Bloom and Lance Corporal Timothy Donley, and many others. Ma and Woetzel also convened a Conductors Symposium in Aspen, bringing together some of the nation's top music directors to discuss broad challenges that orchestras in the United States face.
• In October 2013, Woetzel and High Line architect Elizabeth Diller collaborated on the High Line Arts Education Project,[12] in partnership with the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and Diller's firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Thirty students from what have been identified as some of the nation's lowest-performing and highest-poverty schools traveled to NYC, to engage in a private photographic exploration of the High Line with Diller.
• Also in October 2013, Woetzel hosted actor Alan Alda at New York's Asia Society and Museum, in conversation about Alda's work offstage championing numerous civic causes, including longtime activism in support of women's rights and communications education for scientists.
Vail International Dance Festival[edit]
Since 2006, Woetzel has been the Artistic Director of the summer Vail International Dance Festival, where he presents dance performances and commissions.
Under Woetzel's direction, the festival has received wide acclaim for its innovation and growth as a nationally recognized showcase for dance, featuring such performances as the debut of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, and the launch of New York City Ballet MOVES. The Festival has also hosted the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Trey McIntyre Project, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and other major companies, and has begun engaging live musicians to accompany many performances, including guest appearances by such noted and diverse musicians as Philip Glass, Eddie Palmieri, Jennifer Koh and Brooklyn Rider. The annual International Evenings of Dance galas have become renowned for Woetzel's curation of first-time partnerships across companies and countries, as well as the presentation of young, emerging stars making their debuts in new repertory. In August 2012, The New York Times' Alastair Macaulay wrote that the 2012 Vail International Dance Festival presentations "were distinguished above all by catholic taste and brilliant programming. They merit superlatives" and that the International Evenings I gala "was simply the best gala I have attended in decades."[13] Writing the same week, Wendy Perron of Dance Magazine compared Woetzel to the legendary impresario Serge Diaghilev, and praised Woetzel for engaging and educating audiences through spoken introductions to each work, and for his commitment to collaboration with live musicians.[14]
Also under Woetzel, the Festival has commissioned choreographers to create new works, including Paul Taylor, Christopher Wheeldon, Fang-Yi Sheu, Jill Johnson, Ronald K. Brown, Trey McIntyre, Matthew Neenan, Larry Keigwin and Brian Brooks.
Woetzel has instituted a number of other initiatives as director, including bringing the educational arts program "Celebrate The Beat" - the Colorado associate of Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institute - to the Vail Valley, to reach local underserved children in the public schools.[15][16] Through public events involving Festival Artists, Mr. Woetzel has also institutionalized several initiatives highlighting community engagement with the arts, including an annual celebration of National Dance Day, "Dancing in the Streets" programs, open Master Classes and "UpClose" lecture-demonstration events which combine rehearsal, performance and commentary by Woetzel and special guests. Recent UpClose performances have included: "UpClose: Footwork," which explored virtuoso footwork in dance forms ranging from Memphis jookin' to ballet to tango to modern dance (2013); "UpClose: Stravinsky by Balanchine," an examination of the legendary collaboration between George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky, co-hosted by Woetzel and New York City Ballet Master-in-Chief Peter Martins (2012); "UpClose: Premieres," which provided a first look at a series of works created in Vail by choreographers including Christopher Wheeldon and Emery LeCrone during the weeks of the 2011 Vail International Dance Festival; among many others.
In 2013, the Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Lil Buck @ Le Poisson Rouge[edit]
In April 2013, Woetzel directed and produced a "jookin' jam session" at New York's Le Poisson Rouge, featuring the Memphis jooker Charles "Lil Buck" Riley with special guests including dancer Ron "Prime Tyme" Myles, Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Marcus Printup (trumpet), Cristina Pato (galician bagpipe), John Hadfield (percussion) and the ensemble Brooklyn Rider. The evening featured a specially commissioned world premiere for solo cello by Philip Glass, co-choreographed by Woetzel and Lil Buck. Alastair Macaulay wrote in The New York Times, "As Lil Buck performed with an array of distinguished musicians on Tuesday night at Le Poisson Rouge, a series of extraordinary windows seemed to open, each revealing a new and imagined realm."[17] On October 7, 2013, Charles "Lil Buck" Riley and Ron "Prime Tyme" Myles were awarded Bessies in the Outstanding Performance category for their appearances in Lil Buck @ Le Poisson Rouge.[18]
Kennedy Center Honors[edit]
In December 2012, Woetzel co-produced the tribute to legendary ballerina Natalia Makarova as part of the 35th annual Kennedy Center Honors, which also honored actor Dustin Hoffman, comedian David Letterman, musician Buddy Guy, and ensemble Led Zeppelin, and was broadcast on CBS. The tribute to Makarova featured ballet stars Angel Corella, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Julie Kent, Veronika Part (American Ballet Theatre); Tiler Peck (New York City Ballet); and Alina Cojocaru (then Royal Ballet), in excerpts from ballets associated with Makarova's career including Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, and Other Dances. For his contributions to the Emmy-Award winning CBS special, Woetzel was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the 2012-2013 Primetime Emmy Awards.[citation needed]
World Science Festival[edit]
In 2009 and 2010, Woetzel produced and directed the World Science Festival Gala Performances at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. For the 2010 event he created an arts salute to science honoring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, featuring performances by Yo-Yo Ma, John Lithgow, and Kelli O'Hara among others.[19]
New Essential Works Program[edit]
In the fall of 2009, Woetzel co-founded and began directing the Jerome Robbins Foundation's New Essential Works (NEW) Program, which supports choreographers and dance companies during the current financial crisis by giving grants to enable the production of new works.[20][21] Choreographers who have received grants to date include Andrew Bartee, Stephanie Batten-Bland, Attila Bongar, Brian Brooks, Thaddeus Davis, Norbert de la Cruz, Elena Demyanenko, Robert Garland, Jodie Gates, John Heginbotham, Larry Keigwin, Jessica Lang, Emery LeCrone, Edwaard Liang, Jodi Melnick, Michelle Mola, Jennifer Muller, Matthew Neenan, Helen Pickett, Zalman Raffael, Brian Reeder, Ken Roht, Matthew Rushing, Amy Seiwert, Pam Tanowitz, Endalyn Taylor, Zack Winokur and Nicholas Villeneuve. Companies who have participated in the production of NEW works include Alaska Dance Theatre, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Ballet X, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Boston Ballet, Carolina Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Dance St. Louis, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Eugene Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Keigwin+Company, Nevada Ballet Theatre, NYC Opera, Oakland Ballet, Orchestra of St. Lukes, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadanco, Richmond Ballet, and Sacramento Ballet. Grant awards fall into two categories: NEW grants, for the premiere of a new work, and RE(NEW) grants, supporting the restaging of a NEW work.
Studio 5 Performance Series[edit]
In 2009, Woetzel launched as curator and director the new Studio 5 performance series at New York's City Center, which features in-depth examinations of today's most compelling dance artists and companies highlighted by in-studio performances and demonstrations. In 2009-2013, guests included David Hallberg, Christopher Wheeldon, Herman Cornejo, Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión, Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild, Victoria Clark, Rob Berman, Angel Corella, Wendy Whelan, Edward Villella, among others; topics of discussion ranged from musicality to collaboration to musical theatre; and featured companies included American Ballet Theatre, the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Dance Theater of Harlem.[22]
Turnaround Arts[edit]
As a presidentially-appointed artist on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (along with Chuck Close, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, Yo-Yo Ma, and others), Woetzel is actively involved with Turnaround Arts, an arts education initiative developed in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Domestic Policy Council to help turn around low-performing schools through engagement with the arts. Woetzel has adopted two schools – Lame Deer Jr. High School in Lame Deer, MT, and Orchard Gardens K-8 in Roxbury, MA – and works on arts programming and projects with the schools and their surrounding communities consistently throughout the year.
Arts Strike[edit]
In June 2010 Woetzel piloted "Arts Strike," a new effort to have celebrated artists engage educators and students, schools and communities, highlighting and sharing the unique power of the arts to empower, enrich and educate. The first events have taken place in Vail, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., and almost all have featured Woetzel with Yo-Yo Ma in schools, engaging with students and their teachers to promote learning through the arts.[23] Most recently, Woetzel piloted the High Line Arts Education Project, an Arts Strike organized in New York in collaboration with architect Elizabeth Diller.
Silk Road Connect[edit]
Woetzel works with Yo-Yo Ma on his Silk Road Connect program in the New York City Public Schools. In June 2010, Woetzel directed the culminating year-end event which took place at New York's Museum of Natural History, and featured the participation of the Silk Road Ensemble and 450 6th grade students.[24] In June 2011, the culminating year-end event opened the Central Park SummerStage series. Titled "Night at the Caravanserai: Tales of Wonder," the performance again featured hundreds of 6th grade students from New York-area public schools, Ma with his Silk Road Ensemble, vocalist Bobby McFerrin, the soprano Emalie Savoy, actor Bill Irwin, and author Jhumpa Lahiri, among others.[25]
In April 2011, Woetzel organized an "arts strike" at Inner-City Arts in downtown Los Angeles with Yo-Yo Ma, The Silk Road Ensemble, and Memphis Jooker Charles "Lil Buck" Riley.[26] The event included a demonstration and workshop for more than one hundred elementary school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District. Highlighting the event was a first-time duet directed by Woetzel between Ma and Lil Buck, who performed a Memphis Jookin' version of The Dying Swan with Ma accompanying on the cello; the performance was immortalized in a video shot by Spike Jonze which reached over one million views within weeks.
Other Education Work[edit]
In October 2012, Woetzel, Renée Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma — as National Cultural Advisors — helped Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveil the long-awaited Chicago Cultural Plan, which guarantees the arts an important place within the Chicago school curriculum.[27] The announcement came one year after the Aspen Institute Arts Program, with Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, convened a closed-door roundtable with Chicago Public Schools leadership and local arts education forces, to strategize on the place of the arts in the longer school day anticipated for 2012-13.
Harvard Law School[edit]
In the fall of 2010, Woetzel was a visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he co-taught a course on Performing Arts and the Law with Jeannie Suk.[28] The course explored many intersections of the arts and law, from copyright law, to courtroom performance to celebrity law, with guests including playwright John Guare, actor Alec Baldwin, and Balanchine Trust Co-Founding Trustee Barbara Horgan.
New York State Summer School for the Arts[edit]
Woetzel was the artistic director of the New York State Summer School for the Arts School of Ballet from 1994-2007.
Dance career[edit]
New York City Ballet[edit]
Woetzel joined New York City Ballet in 1985, and was a Principal Dancer from 1989 until his retirement from the stage in 2008.[29] At New York City Ballet, Woetzel had works created for him by Jerome Robbins, Eliot Feld, Twyla Tharp, Susan Stroman and Christopher Wheeldon among others, and danced more than 50 featured roles in the Company's repertory, including: George Balanchine's: Agon, Coppélia, The Prodigal Son, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Stars and Stripes, Swan Lake; and Jerome Robbins': Afternoon of a Faun, Fancy Free, Dances at a Gathering, A Suite of Dances, and West Side Story Suite.
Woetzel originated featured roles in: Jerome Robbins' Ives, Songs and Quiet City, Eliot Feld's The Unanswered Question and Organon, Twyla Tharp's The Beethoven Seventh, Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris, Carousel, Evenfall, Morphoses, and Variations sérieuses, Peter Martins' Jeu de cartes and The Sleeping Beauty, and Susan Stroman's "The Blue Necklace" from Double Feature. Woetzel also originated roles in ballets by Kevin O'Day, Richard Tanner and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, among others.
Woetzel appeared in Dance in America's presentation of "Dinner with Balanchine," dancing Union Jack and Stars and Stripes. In May 1999, he starred as Prince Siegfried in Peter Martins' Swan Lake on the PBS national telecast "Live from Lincoln Center." Woetzel also appeared in the 2002 nationally televised Live from Lincoln Center broadcast "New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography" on PBS and in the May 2004 Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of "Lincoln Center Celebrates Balanchine 100." Woetzel starred as the Cavalier in the film version of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™, released in the winter of 1993. In October 1998, Mr. Woetzel appeared as one of the stars of the Cole Porter musical Jubilee in a special benefit performance at Carnegie Hall, during which he sang as well as danced.
Guest Appearances[edit]
During his career, Woetzel frequently performed internationally as a guest star and was a visiting artist with numerous companies including the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. In his guest appearances, Woetzel danced principal roles in classics such as Don Quixote, Giselle, and La Bayadere among others, in addition to his NYCB repertory.
Woetzel has choreographed a number of ballets for New York City Ballet, among other companies. For New York City Ballet, he choreographed Ebony Concerto to Stravinsky, and Glazounov Pas de Deux to the composer's Les Ruses d'Amour. Woetzel also choreographed the "Polovtsian Dances" for New York City Opera's production of Prince Igor, and in 1998, he choreographed and starred in a new version of An American in Paris ballet for Marvin Hamlisch's Gershwin Centennial Gala. In recent years, Woetzel has choreographed works including The Orchard for Pacific Northwest Ballet's Carla Körbes, which premiered at the Vail International Dance Festival, and collaborated on choreography with the jookin' star Lil Buck for performances in New York, Los Angeles and Colorado, among other places.
Honors and Appointments[edit]
Woetzel is the recipient of a Choo San Goh award for new choreography. He serves on the Artists Committee of the Kennedy Center Honors and as a judge for the Astaire Awards. He has also served as a juror for the Princess Grace Awards. Woetzel is a frequent speaker on the arts and arts policy. Woetzel was the 2008 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence of the Aspen Institute,[30] and in 2011, he became a member of the Knight Foundation's National Arts Advisory Committee. Woetzel also serves on the boards of directors of New York City Center, The Clive Barnes Foundation and The Sphinx Organization, and served on the recent Harvard Task Force on the Arts. In November 2009, President Obama appointed Woetzel to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.[31] In July 2012, Woetzel was honored with the inaugural Gene Kelly Legacy Award - an award jointly created by the Dizzy Feet Foundation and the Estate of Gene Kelly in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kelly's birth - for his contributions to the arts as a ballet star and director of dance and music performances.[32]
Woetzel holds a Master in Public Administration Degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.[33]
Personal life[edit]
Woetzel has been married to Heather Watts since 1999.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/dance/20nycb.html
- ^ At the White House, dancers get room to move in the East Room — The Washington Post
- ^ Kennedy Center Honors: A whirlwind weekend for Patricia McBride — The Charlotte Observer
- ^ Jason Moran and Other Guest Artists to Curate Kennedy Center Season — The New York Times
- ^ Damian Woetzel to receive Harvard Arts Medal — Harvard Gazette
- ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aspen-institute-names-damian-woetzel-to-lead-arts-programs-122872459.html
- ^ http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/arts-program/US-China-Forum-Arts-Culture
- ^ http://www.aspeninstitute.org/video/030912-arts-education-fact-fiction-future
- ^ http://aspenpeak-magazine.com/personalities/articles/damian-woetzel-aspens-new-art-attache
- ^ http://citizenmusician.org/News/Article/83/NEWS
- ^ http://www.aspeninstitute.org/news/2013/04/08/aspen-institute-arts-program-announces-2013-harman-eisner-artist-residence
- ^ http://turnaroundarts.pcah.gov/highlights/the-high-line-education-project/
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/arts/dance/vail-international-dance-festivals-evenings-of-dance.html
- ^ http://www.dancemagazine.com/blogs/dance-glance/4578
- ^ Eagle County kids invited to White House — The Vail Daily
- ^ Saturday's Yo-Yo Ma Event Shows Cellists' Passion for Art Education — The Vail Daily
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/arts/dance/lil-buck-at-le-poisson-rouge.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/arts/dance/bessies-are-presented-to-dancers-in-ceremony-at-the-apollo.html
- ^ World Science Festival to Start with a Big Bang — The New York Times
- ^ The Jerome Robbins Foundation and Robbins Rights Trust
- ^ Make It Relevant but Make It — The New York Times
- ^ http://www.nycitycenter.org/content/misc/studio_series.aspx
- ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-04/entertainment/ct-ent-1004-ma-20111004_1_arts-education-brizard-chicago-arts-partnerships
- ^ Big Lights Will Inspire You — National Geographic
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/arts/music/yo-yo-mas-silk-road-ensemble-at-summerstage-review.html
- ^ Yo-Yo Ma performs for Inner City Arts kids on Los Angeles's Skid Row
- ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-15/entertainment/chi-culture-plan-emphasizes-arts-in-schools-20121015_1_arts-education-chicago-cultural-plan-arts-instruction
- ^ Harvard Law School Faculty
- ^ Bowing Out, but Still Fancy Free — The New York Times
- ^ Aspen Ideas Festival Opens — The Aspen Times
- ^ President's Arts Group Names 25 Members — The New York Times
- ^ http://www.aspeninstitute.org/news/2012/07/24/arts-program-director-damian-woetzel-be-honored-inaugural-gene-kelly
- ^ He Parked His Barre in Harvard Yard — The New York Times


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Merrill Lynch Boosts Recruiting Deal for Top Brokers
Bank of America's Merrill Lynch Wealth Management unit has tweaked its recruiting deal to attract financial advisers from competitors.
The bank is now offering bigger upfront cash payments, as well as an extra client-asset incentive, to a larger pool of top-tier brokers, according to people familiar with the situation.
The new package, announced to some recruiters and managers last week, comes as the Merrill Lynch brokerage has lost some advisory talent to rivals, including UBS, in recent weeks. It is also a response to stiffer recruiting competition with a rising equity market this year, these people said.
Merrill Lynch, part of Bank of America's Global Wealth and Investment Management business, is now offering top-tier advisers at UBS, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo, 150% of the fees and commissions they generate from clients in an upfront cash payment, up 7% from its previous recruiting package.
A Bank of America spokeswoman said "ours has largely been a 'grow your own' talent strategy, but we have and continue to be a competitive, but highly selective, recruiter of top industry talent."
In recent years, the highest-producing advisers, who have joined the four major brokerages, have been known to collect signing bonuses of as much as 330% of their annual production, which could equate to contracts in excess of $2 million.


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In 1908, acclaimed photographer Lewis W. Hine snapped a simple portrait titled "Irish Steel Worker." The aged laborer has a weathered face and sad eyes. A pipe sprouts from his mouth. He sports suspenders, a thick handkerchief in his front pocket and a woolen cap atop his head.
Hine, born in Wisconsin in 1874, would go on to become one of the progressive era's great photographers. As Jacob Riis did a generation earlier, Hine used the camera as a tool to record social inequities and spur reform.
The same year he snapped the Irish steel worker, Hine also created one of his more famous series of photographs, entitled "Child Labor: Girls in Factories."
But it was a decade and a half later that Hine would find his true muse. Hine's most famous subject was not even a person. It was, instead, the tallest building in the world, a monument to enormity and audacity which just so happened to begin rising as the nation sank into a deep depression.
Construction of the Empire State Building began in March of 1930 on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at 350 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. It was completed 14 months later in May, 1931. At 102 stories, it was at that time the tallest building in the world. It is presently the third tallest building in America.
Hine's photographs of construction of the building capture the wonder, romance and artistry of the skyscraper and its builders. Almost as an afterthought, though no less important, the photos also capture a project on which Irish Americans played a central role, from the power brokers who envisioned this unprecedented project to the laborers who got the Empire State Building erected in just over one year. Hine captured the determination of the men who stirred the concrete and stacked the steel. But it's important to note that Irish-American power brokers also played a key part in the Empire State Building's rise.
First, there was Al Smith. A child of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Smith often claimed the only degree he ever earned was an FFM degree, because he had to go to work at the Fulton Fish Market when his father died. Smith emerged from Tammany Hall in an unlikely fashion: without the whiff of corruption. He served as a popular, progressive New York governor in the 1920s, but then made a doomed run for the presidency in 1928.
Smith was the first Catholic candidate to run for the White House, and many in middle America considered him an agent of Rome who hailed from the mongrelized metropolis. The Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on the campaign trail. Even Smith's opposition to prohibition was seen as deeply unsavory. Add in the fact that the economy was booming and you get the picture. Smith was trounced by Herbert Hoover.
Though it devastated him, Smith did not vanish into obscurity after this loss. He was named president of the Empire State Building Corporation, whose job it was to erect a towering new building on the former site of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Another important figure in the planning stages of the Empire State Building was John J. Raskob. Raskob's father was Alsatian, but his mother was Irish Catholic. The self-made man from Lockport, New York first got a job with the Du Pont family in the early 1900s and made enough money to invest in Manhattan real estate just in time for the roaring 1920s.
On August 29, 1929, Raskob, Smith and a group of investors took aim at the biggest real estate investment New York had ever seen: The Empire State Building.
Less than two months after this announcement, the stock market crashed. Raskob, Smith and the other bigwigs who saw dollar signs at the vast corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue would have to adjust their vision. The Empire State Building would still go up. The problem? It might turn out to be the biggest real estate boondoggle in American history.
Still, the project was good news for at least one group of people: Irish-American laborers desperate for work. Men like Irish immigrant Michael Briody.
Laborer Michael Briody would probably be forgotten had he not been New York Irish novelist Tom Kelly's great-uncle. Kelly had heard family stories about his uncle. Briody got mixed up in some shady business, was murdered and buried in the Bronx. Kelly decided to look more deeply not only into his uncle's past but into the celebrated skyscraper he helped build. The result was his thrilling 2005 novel Empire Rising. Though it is a work of fiction, Empire Rising is a rich, informative look at how the Irish helped build the Empire State Building.
There are no hard statistics about just how many Irish immigrants and Irish Americans helped build the Empire State Building. But it is generally accepted that Irishmen, as well as Scandinavian Americans, were the dominant group at the work site.
One reason for this is because a new wave of Irish immigrants had swept into New York City. As with the Irish immigrants (such as Mike Quill) who founded the Transit Workers Union (TWU) in 1934, more than a handful of Empire State laborers were Irish republicans on the run from the grueling civil war which broke out in Ireland in the 1920s, following the Easter Rising and partition.


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UVM drops fee, sees more applicationsThe Associated Press | March 10,2013BURLINGTON A decision to waive an early-application fee is being credited with helping to increase the number of students applying to the University of Vermont by 2.7 percent.
The growth is part of a plan by UVM President Thomas Sullivan to make the school more selective by accepting a smaller percentage of the number of students who apply.
In addition to the decision to waive the $55 early application fee, UVM officials believe there has been a positive buzz about the school among students and high school guidance counselors.
That buzz continued through a very good summer visit season and into the fall, said Chris Lucier, the schools vice president for enrollment management.
As of last week, 22,277 students applied for admission to UVM, just below the all-time record of 23,365 set in 2009.
Of the total number of applicants this year, 2,118 came from Vermont students, a decrease of about 5.5 percent from last year.
Lucier said he could not explain why there was a drop in Vermont applications, but he expected a rebound. This year we will likely have the third- or fourth-most applications from Vermont students since 1980, he said.
We have received over 2,000 applications from Vermont students consistently since 2006, the same period that the number of (high school) graduates in Vermont has been declining, Lucier added. This reflects our focused outreach to recruit Vermont students in the face of the declining demographics.MORE IN This Just InSPRINGFIELD The Springfield Select Board took the first step toward endorsing the towns... Full StoryBENNINGTON The parents of a 3-year-old girl are facing a felony charge after police said they... Full StoryBENNINGTON A local man accused of attempting to bring 600 bags of heroin, worth about $9,000,... Full Story
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Eleonor greets us on the steps, wearing open toed shoes and a cute green two piece outfit. We get the obligatory tease, and lots of good closeups of her pretty face and mouth. The outfit comes off, and we have her on the couch in mish, playing with her pussy. A guy then comes out of nowhere, and starts softly choking her, and sticking his fingers in her mouth. This goes on for a bit (not sure why), but things heat up when she pulls down his shorts and starts sucking on his cock.
She's on her knees, giving some good no hands head, and he takes control and starts skull fucking her. Before long, 3 other studs have joined the fray, and Eleonor has no problem giving each of them some attention. There's a lot of good deep throating here, one shot in particular is funny, as the first guy gets his tool all the way down her mouth, and holds it there until she slaps his thigh hard to get him out! Gotta love the attitude, haha. She pleases them some more while crouching, then switches over to the couch where she's on her back, and the guys take turns throat fucking her.
For the foot fetish guys, at one point as she has two penises near her face, the camera pans over and we see one guy is fucking her feet! Great stuff, that's what I'd be doing to if her mouth was already occupied. The deep throating continues, and we get a good position (as you can see in the preview pics) where she is bent over backwards, with her bare feet showing. Very cute stuff. After each guy gets his turn, we're ready for our facial finale.
The first guy blows a nice, thick load, but gets most of it in her mouth! We're not in AssTraffic my friend, this is CumForCover! She spits it out to cover a bit of her cheek, but he should have nailed her forehead. To top it off, he spits a thick loogie on her afterwards (a la David Perry), that's cheating! The second guy shoots a decent load off that nails most of her left cheek under her eye. The third guy gets some clear goo on her lips and on her forehead. The fourth guy gets good white globs of goo onto her forehead and nose.
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La Jolla High School's Interact Club ventured to Tecate for two weekends in May to build homes for two families.
The homes were constructed using a novel new building system from La Jolla-based Icology Group.
Interact club, a community service club sponsored and guided by the Rotary Club of La Jolla, has completed a total of 14 homes for impoverished families in the Baja area.
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Installing the ELK-9200 near the Load1. Turn Off the appropriate electrical circuit at the Electrical Breaker Panel before attempting to install the ELK-9200.2. Mount the 9200 near the Load/Device that is to be controlled. Note: In addition to the Line circuit coming from the Breaker Box to the Load/Device, it will also be necessary to have a nearby 110 VAC for plugging in the appliance style automation module (purchased separately). Virtually any automation appliance module (i.e. UPB, Insteon, ZWave, X10, etc.) can be used with the Elk-9200, as long as it supplies the third (3rd) ground prong.3. Carefully disconnect the Line circuit cable where is goes into the Device being controlled; Water Heater, pump, etc. Re-route this cable into the bottom of the 9200 enclosure using an approved electrical wire clamp (not supplied).4. Connect the two (2) hot wires coming from the Line circuit cable to the terminals marked "LINE" and the neutral wire to the terminal marked "Neutral".5. Run a new section of similarly rated cable from the Device into the top of the 9200 enclosure using an approved electrical wire clamp (not supplied). Connect the two (2) hot wires to the terminals marked "LOAD" and the neutral wire to the terminal marked "Neutral". Reconnect the wires inside the device.REFER TO THE WIRING DIAGRAM BELOW.6. Connect the three (3) prong cord to the automation appliance module and plug it into the local 110 VAC outlet.7. Turn On the electrical circuit and test the 9200 operation by transmitting remote commands to the automation appliance module. The relay/contactor will be noticeable loud when switching On and Off.
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(Agamemnon, in Odysseus's tale:) '[…] most pitiful was the voice I heard of Priam's daughter Kassandra, killed by treacherous Klytaimestra over me; but I lifted my hands and with them beat on the ground as I died upon the sword, but the sluttish woman turned away from me and was so hard that her hands would not press shut my eyes and mouth though I was going to Hades'. So there is nothing more deadly or more vile than a woman who stores her mind with acts that are of such sort, as this one did when she thought of this act of dishonor, and plotted the murder of her lawful husband. See, I had been thinking that I would be welcome to my children and thralls of my household when I came home, but she with thoughts surpassingly grisly splashed the shame on herself and the rest of her sex, on women still to come, even on the one whose acts are virtuous.' (11.421-434)
Where Penelope is a steadfast symbol of loyalty, Klytaimestra is quite the opposite. She betrays her lord by taking a lover in his absence and shows her treachery by killing her husband when he returns. She so hates him that she refuses to honor the rights of the dead – closing his eyes or shutting his lips so that he may be granted passage to the Underworld. So embittered is Agamemnon by her betrayal that he condemns all women on the grounds that they have the same sort of treachery in them.


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University campuses are the front line of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States, but a new study documents hundreds of cases in which students and scholars have been punished for expressing themselves. Watch the testimony of some of those who have dared to speak out, as they describe the backlash they've faced.
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Nader is suing the Federal Election Commission for not investigating the law firms that allegedly worked on behalf of the Democratic National Committee in a coordinated effort to obstruct his bid for the presidency in 2004.
In a result sure to spark intense debate, Israel's attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last May has been declared by a government commission to be a legal use of force for self-defense. Israeli commandos killed nine activists attempting to break the blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip.
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"Illegal protest" can count a new baritoned bedfellow. In an interview ahead of the Copenhagen climate change conference, former Vice President Al Gore pronounced civil disobedience to be justified, believing that the global warming crisis requires more forceful methods of political activism.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter is reportedly planning to retire from the bench at the end of the court's current term. Souter's decision to leave will likely not affect the political balance of the court, as his replacement by President Obama will likely be another liberal-minded justice.
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A recently declassified memo shines the spotlight once again on John "Take Them to the Point of Death" Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor and once deputy legal counsel in the Justice Department.
An interim decision by the Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday marked the beginning of what could become a two-tiered road system in the West Bank. With two separate legal systems for Palestinians and Israelis already in operation, critics fear segregated roads would lead toward further institutionalization of apartheid in the occupied territories.
Hillary Clinton has had difficulty keeping pace with Barack Obama's fundraising, which could explain the launch of a new pro-Clinton 527 group called "American Leadership Project" that already has a commercial it plans to run in Ohio. The group is not subject to the same rules as the campaign and can theoretically raise unlimited amounts of money.
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You may recall that right-wing hate-monger Ann Coulter was accused of voter fraud not too long ago, for registering to vote using her real estate agent's address. Now it turns out she may have used the same address to register a driver's license—meaning Coulter could be charged with two third-degree felonies and one misdemeanor, if only someone would prosecute the case.
U.N. experts have found over 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets throughout Lebanon. The cluster bombs, most of which were dropped in the last 72 hours of the conflict, continue to injure and kill Lebanese civilians. (Also: What is a cluster bomb? )
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He's been described as "the most powerful person you've never heard of," and "Cheney's Cheney." He's David Addington, the vice president's chief of staff, and he's behind the legal arguments to support presidential-sanctioned torture, the attempt to discredit Joe Wilson, and the bogus Niger uranium story. The New Yorker has a must-read profile.
Patrick Fitzgerald writes in a legal briefing, "It is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to 'punish Wilson.' "
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Truly shocking: White House lawyers are arguing that the new law banning cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees does not apply to people held at Guantanamo.
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BOSTON -- In October, Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and former titleholder Junior dos Santos meet in their rubber match to decide who's the better man in the octagon.
Shortly before that UFC 166 title fight, Daniel Cormier and Roy Nelson get the heavyweight conversation started on the same card. Late this month, Josh Barnett returns to the UFC after 11 years away, and Fabricio Werdum still waits in the wings.
Is there a clear No. 1 contender in the big-man division? Arguments can be made for several candidates on who is closest. Judging by the buildup to the UFC Fight Night 26 co-main event between Alistair Overeem (36-12 mixed martial arts, 1-1 UFC) and Travis Browne (14-1-1, 5-1-1), which airs Saturday on Fox Sports 1 (6 p.m. ET preliminary card, 8 ET main card), the UFC is not ready to answer the question.
Despite former Strikeforce champ Overeem's star status and Browne's promising run, there is little talk of what comes next for either. Even the headliner of Saturday's event at TD Garden in Boston is taken aback.
"That hasn't been named the No. 1 contender match, which surprises me," said Chael Sonnen, who meets Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the main event before returning next week as a Fox commentator. "I think we're all going to call for it on Monday morning, regardless of who wins," he said.
UFC President Dana White said during a news conference Thursday that the bout was a big fight in the heavyweight division and a big opportunity for the fighters but said he needed to see them fight before deciding their fates.
Maybe that makes sense. Overeem's and Browne's title plans were smashed by Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva, who subsequently was TKO'd in a rematch with Velasquez. Looking ahead in a division where fortunes change with one punch is a risky proposition for the UFC.
"I think I have just as much to lose as he does," said Browne, who stopped Gabriel Gonzaga by TKO in April. "This is my shot to make my name. Losing to a guy like Alistair, all it does is put me way back in line. (If) he loses to a guy like me, he still has his persona. So to me, it's do or die."
Overeem, who returned to his native Netherlands to prepare for Saturday's bout after training in South Florida for his two previous UFC fights, is motivated by a desire to not repeat the mistake he made in underestimating Silva, who knocked him out in February at UFC 156.
"Maybe my mind was dwelling on other things," he said. "It's never good to look too far ahead. I'm not really thinking about anything other than Travis. I'm not really thinking about my ranking or my position or any other fighters."
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What would have to happen? This used to be my most dreaded question to hear. It usually came from one of the Zimmers, one of the owners of the radio stations, where I work. It was usually followed with, "to increase revenue," "to see more clients" or "to get more listeners." If that question came up in a meeting, you better have an answer. So today, I find myself asking that same question, just a different subject. "What would have to happen, for Sikeston and the surrounding area to come to a Bootheel Bombers minor league baseball game?"
For about three years I have worked on this project. When I was first approached about helping bring a minor league to Sikeston, I thought this would be something that Sikeston would love to have. I mean our most successful sports program at Sikeston High School for the past seven years has been the baseball team. Go to a Little League game on any given night and you will see practically half of Sikeston there watching games. In the process, as I have been out in the community talking to people about the team I have heard great excitement. People have told me how excited they were that this team was coming and couldn't wait to see a game. So it's been a little surprising to me to see a handful of people at the games and sometimes less than a handful.
As I try to understand why no one is coming to support your local team, I hear comments like, "well, I didn't know we had a team." Really? It's talked about on the radio; our local newspaper, the Standard Democrat has given us excellent coverage. KFVS talks about every game and KFVS was live from our first game during their news at 5 and 6. The Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce has had articles in two monthly newsletters, it's been talked about at Chamber luncheons and it's on the Chamber's web site. There are schedules at various businesses around town, including the YMCA, Pizza Inn and The House of Color, just to name a few. You haven't heard of the team? Really?
One of my favorite things to hear is, "Well, maybe if you had more local players on the team people would come to the games." Matt Bucker, Oran. Reif Tucker, Portageville. Adam Riley, Cape Girardeau. Jamie Puckett, Sikeston. How many more local players do we need to have? This isn't your local legion team. This is not your local high school team. This is a minor league baseball team, which means we try to find the best players from wherever. In addition to the above, we have young men from Mississippi, Florida, Colorado and even two from Venezuela. They have come here to play ball for your team. To give something Sikeston can be proud of to have in their community. How do you think these young men feel about Sikeston, when they play in Farmington, Mo., in front of 600 plus fans and then come home to about 70, half of which are from the other team's town. I've never heard anyone say, "I would go to a Cardinal baseball game, if they had more players from St. Louis on the team." (Yes, I know that is major league baseball and there is a difference, but I am sure you know where I am coming from.)
These young men have played some excellent baseball. Recently, Brent Telano pitched nine innings, allowing one run. The Bombers beat the number 2 team in the league that day, Union City, 2 to 1. The next day, Dan Robbins pitched nine innings, allowing only 2 runs. Unfortunately, we lost to the number 1 team in the league, Farmington, 2 to 1. Two great back-to-back games and you missed it. This is baseball at its best. No high-priced players. No stadiums so large you could lose your entire family in the crowd. Just young men playing baseball, hoping for a chance to someday play the next level. Hitting with wood bats. (I prefer the klunk of wood compared to the ding of metal and I know I am not alone.)
If I have heard it once, I have heard it a thousand times, "there is nothing to do in Sikeston" or "Sikeston has nothing to offer in the way of entertainment." Well, here is your chance to be entertained. Here is your chance to sit back, relax and enjoy a good game of baseball, played the way it was meant to be played.
So Sikeston, I ask you, what would have to happen? Attached is a schedule of the remaining home games. Now you know when they are. Now you know we have local players. Come show them Sikeston's enthusiasm for the sport they play.
Go Bombers!
Bill Powers
Bootheel Bombers
July 19 - Farmington, Mo. @ Sikeston, 7 p.m.
July 20 - Farmington, Mo. @ Sikeston, 7 p.m.
July 28 - Union City, Tenn. @ Sikeston, 7 p.m.
July 30 - Union City, Tenn. @ Sikeston, 7 p.m.
Aug. 4 - Farmington, Mo. @ Sikeston, 7 p.m.


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Ben Gleib returns to the Improv at Harveys this week for his third outing and hey, why not? Every time I tune into "Chelsea Lately," he seems to be on and "Esquire" magazine named him one of "Six comedians who would be comedy's next big thing." Time to get a break from so much adulation and perform in a place where he won't get a big head. That could be a problem though, since the last two times Ben has been up here has done very well.
Satirical by nature, Gleib was given very good reviews performing at the Vancouver Comedy and Laughing Matters festivals. He has written for the Radio Music Awards and has his own podcast called "Last Week On Earth," which, as he says, "covers everything that happened on Earth in the last week." He covers a wide range of topics on his podcast and I forgot he can be political at times, which is an offshoot of the radio gig he did reporting for Southern California NPR-affiliate KPCC at the last Republican National Convention.
Ben's talents extend beyond just the comedy. As an actor he starred in the NBC prime-time comedy "The Real Wedding Crashers." The show also aired on Bravo and Style networks. His voice-over work includes Marshall the sloth in 20th Century Fox's "Ice Age: Continental Drift." As mentioned earlier Gleib has been on "Chelsea Lately" a bunch of times, as well as on "Last Call with Carson Daly," "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and "Last Comic Standing."
Ben is also a fixture online, with videos that have notched up to 17 million views. Other credits include selling a pilot called "The Gleib Show" to Fox and releasing his first comedy album, titled "Not Available in Stores."
Lukas Seely
Making his debut up here this week in the feature slot is Lukas Seely. In the relatively short span Lukas has been doing stand-up comedy, he has amassed a nice resume. He was nominated as an emerging comic in the New York Underground Comedy Festival and has also opened for people such as Dane Cook, Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Ron White, Bill Burr, Greg Giraldo and Jeffery Ross. He started out in his hometown of Billings, Mont., relocating to Seattle in 2004 and developing a following in the comedy scene. From there he worked his way south to Los Angeles.
Here's an interesting six degrees of separation: When "Chelsea Lately" regular Ben Gleib canceled his performances in Missoula, Mont., one weekend, Lukas Seely filled in. Obviously Lukas was still living in Montana at the time, but what a coincidence to have the two of them together here this week.
I can't believe Lukas would drive down from Billings to Denver every other week to do open-mic nights at The Comedy Works downtown. That's an eight-hour drive, folks. Fortunately he had a cousin who lived in Denver so he could crash at his place before heading back to Billings the following day.
Things have really panned out nicely for Lukas. He's producing many projects, one of them a pilot for the Food Network based on the cooking of his mother, who has been providing egg rolls to the people of Billings for more than two decades via farmers markets and two restaurants, Taste of Asia and the Samurai. The egg rolls are a metaphor representing his family's freedom and his parents' escape from a communist government. The plan is to travel around America finding other restaurants that have the same story as is. Pretty cool, huh? He's also continuing to bring live stand-up comedy to his home state through the Montana Comedy Project, so, even though he's physically in Southern California, his heart and soul remain up north.


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Yeah, I know…it's short notice, but I thought I'd throw out a little giveaway to you Ninjas!
Tentiko wants you to fall in love with Denver!
By experiencing Denver in authentic ways, you build your community…and Tentiko wants to be a part of that by offering experiences that will open doors to participants to fall in love with all that Denver has to offer.
And they want to start by offering Denver Craft Ninjas a free class in watercolor painting!
I have two FREE seats reserved for one lucky Ninja! Are you free Tuesday?! Yes, tomorrow! January 29th! 5:30 PM!
Grab your friend, your partner, your mom and learn, hands on, from artist Pixie Glore about watercolor painting.
The theme is painting an exotic place – you bring an image of your favorite exotic place, sip a little wine and have some fun!
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Leave a comment on the blog with your FAVORITE exotic place – Comments are open now until HIGH NOON tomorrow!
We'll pick a winner and send them all the information they'll need for their free spot in the class tomorrow.
This offer is open to any and all who live in the Denver area and are over 21 years old.
If you're interested in participating, but can't make it tomorrow, Tentiko has given us a discount code for 25% off this watercolor class! Click here to sign up and use pixie to redeem this offer.
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Thanks for visiting my pages with easy viola solos! I have just started this page and will continue to upload easy solos, Christmas melodies and viola and piano arrangements. All these music scores are my arrangements of public domain melodies and you can use them freely without any obligations. The viola music scores are uploaded in PDF format which will give you high quality printouts!
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This page offers you easy viola solo arrangements of popular melodies including Abide With Me, Amazing Grace, America The Beautiful, Happy Birthday To You, The Star-Spangled Banner and more. All melodies can be downloaded and printed in high quality PDF format!
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Here you can download and print out popular Christmas carols arranged for easy violin. The printable PDF violin scores include Angels We Have Heard On High, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Joy To The World and We Wish You A Merry Christmas!
Many Famous Composers Have One Thing in Common - They All Played Viola
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Yes, composers of such calibre as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Hindemith,
Mendelssohn loved the viola and played it. Also several famous violin players
including the most famous violin player, Nicolo Paganini, played the viola
and still today several famous violin players show their appreciation for
the viola by playing it.
It's just that, until the 20th century, it wasn't fashionable to be a full time viola soloist, and we also have to say that playing the viola is more physically exacting than the little brother violin. The violin could more easily enable the performer to show off his fireworks, so why bother? Many virtuosos recognized her beauty, though, and played it occasionally and even wrote works for it.
There were two notable exceptions, between mid 18th century and mid 19th
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Hindemith was a concert viola player and composed many viola works. Paganini was the origin of Berlioz's Harold in Italy, for viola and orchestra and Paganini himself wrote a virtuoso viola composition that he premiered in London. There is much more music for viola than most people think, and this beautiful mellow toned instrument will be a discovery for you!
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The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles says the written portion of driver's license exams aren't going to be written for long.
Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is holding a news conference on Tuesday to introduce an electronic testing system for new motorists. They'll soon be available for motorcycle riders, as well.
The testing system with touch-screen monitors was made possible by a federal grant.
Dunlap says the new system is easier to use and is offered in different languages. He says the system also randomly generates each test, ensuring that no two exams are the same.


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The Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA) was reintroduced today by Congressman Elliot Engel of New York. The bill would ban employers and schools from being able to request or require that employees, job applicants, students, or student applicants provide access to personal password protected digital accounts. The bill is a win for businesses, schools, employees, job applicants, student applicants, students, and the right to privacy.
With access comes responsibility. Without access it would be very difficult for an employer or school to be held legally liable for the digital content that an employee or student posts on their personal digital accounts. Therefore, the bill may protect
businesses, schools, and taxpayers from tremendous legal liability.
This bill is needed because some companies are approaching employers and schools with the pitch: require your employees and/or students to verify their digital media credentials so we can scan everything they have said online, everything said about them online, and everything their digital connections discuss online. In general, nobody should be required to verify their personal digital credentials/activities/content absent a legal proceeding that requires it. More information will be forthcoming.
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