Hear Gwe, Young Man of New Guinea, A Novel Against Racism, performed Sunday, June 12, 2:30 at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, SoHo, NYC. The novel is by anthropologist Arnold Perey, and is moving. The anthropology is authentic, as Dr. Perey lived with Gwe's people, the Mengti people, in New Guinea. His doctorate advisor was Margaret Mead. This book tells a story of how a white anthropologist learned to see how much LIKE he was to the men and women, through his study of Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by poet and critic Eli Siegel.
And the drama is also in the stories of love, war, the family, while, all the time, two people come to see one another as deeply alike. It's tremendously moving and urgently needed now! This is a dramatic reading, with Dr. Perey, Anne Fielding, and Bennett Cooperman. -- Devorah Tarrow
Monday, May 09, 2005
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Fabulous presentation by Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co.
Saturday, April 30, I attended a May Day Celebration at the American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark that was absolutely smashing! It was in honor of the IWW, the Wobblies, and among the entertainers were Anne Feeney and George and Julius. And the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company sang and commented on union and labor songs. It was one of the deepest presentations I've ever heard, as that theatre company showed, for example, how the song "Ten Cents a Dance" is about the feelings of a working woman, a woman who has to earn money by dancing with customers--and someone makes a profit from her work--work which is degrading and saddening. See this Theatre Co. at http://aestheticrealismtheatreco.org/
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