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I WAS THRILLED BY 'PERSEPOLIS' A BRILL/ANT ANIMATED VERSION OF MARJANE SAM A PFS
SPIRITED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS. EASILY ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
COMIC-BOOK-PACE-TO-SCREEN TRANSLATIONS I'VE SEEN. FLUID AND INVENTIVE,
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cal genre — from Baroque to modern
— as well as inventing some new ones
and participating in curiosities like the
Genesis Suite, to which he was the only
non-Jewish contributor. His music has
inspired some of the greatest choreog-
raphers of the 20th century.
In Stravinsky Revisited, a follow-up to
the success of Viva Stravinsky in 1989,
the U-M University Dance Company has
created another concert paying homage
to the composer, but this time featuring
contemporary composers inspired by
the master as well. Pieces by two Jewish
choreographers will be featured.
Ann Arbor-based choreographer
Jessica Fogel, a recipient of an award
for a Lifetime of Achievement in the
Arts from the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit, pres-
ents a choreographic retrospective of
her works set to an original score by
Stephen Rush. The score is based on
a musical fragment from Stravinsky's
Symphony of Psalms, written in 1929
for the 50th anniversary of the Boston
Symphony (Time magazine named it
the best piece of the 20th century).
Beginning with Israeli folk danc-
ing in the elementary grades, guest
choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman's life
has been all about dance. Gwirtzman,
dances, choreographs and directs for
the New York-based Daniel Gwirtzman
Dance Company. His Village piece is
set to seven brief movements from
four Stravinsky compositions. Inspired
by the folkloric traditions of Eastern
European cultures, Village honors the
unions of lovers, the rituals of a cohe-
sive community and the presence of
tragedy among life's joys.
Rounding out the program, Amy
Chavasse premieres a work set to
Stravinsky waltzes, polkas and tangos,
combining movement, video and text
to relate historical events of the 1920s
and '40s; Ginger Thatcher explores the
ideas of light, shadows and the cutout
motifs of Matisse in her work Shadow
Dances, set to Stravinsky's Ebony
Concerto; and hip-hop dance choreogra-
pher Rennie Harris, artistic director of
Puremovement based in Philadelphia,
looks at Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
Stravinsky Revisited will be presented
7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31-Feb.
3, at the Power Center in Ann Arbor.
Tickets: $18-$24; students, $9 with
I.D. (734) 764-2538 or www.music.
umich.edu.
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for Californication, and Jeremy
Piven, best supporting actor, for
Entourage.)
Day-Lewis often is described
as "a Jewish actor" in the Jewish
press because his mother, English
actress Jill Balcon, 83, is Jewish.
His late father, famous poet
Cecil Day-Lewis, was of Irish
Protestant background, the son
of a minister.
Daniel was baptized into the
Anglican Church, and he sang in
the church choir as a boy. His
mother came from a very assimi-
lated background, and Day-Lewis
says he never heard a word of
Hebrew or Yiddish until young
adulthood.
Yes, he is married to film-
maker Rebecca Miller, whose late
father was the famous Jewish
playwright Arthur Miller. But
Rebecca's mother (photographer
Inge Morath) was not Jewish,
and Rebecca was raised in no
faith. Day-Lewis and Miller mar-
tied in a church
ceremony pre-
sided over by
the famed Rev.
William Sloane
Coffin, a great
friend of Arthur
Miller.
Daniel Day-
In 2005, Day-
Lewis
Lewis decided
to take up an
offer from the London Times to
accompany "Doctors Without
Borders" psychologists to any
war zone they were working in.
He chose to go to Gaza, and
his Times' article can only be
described as an unbalanced dia-
tribe against Israel.
No question, Day-Lewis is a
great actor. I just don't consider
him a "Jewish" actor. It seems
that nobody else in the Jewish
press ever wants to spend a little
time, as I did, and uncover these
"awkward" facts about Daniel
Day-Lewis.
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