INWARD BOUND ARCHIVE

INWARD BOUND week of April 13, 2020All week -- From the Love of Dance SIG:

NY City Ballet. Two short inspiring YouTube clips from choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. This Bitter Earth with Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle is beautiful!  (7 minutes)https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=this+bitter+earth+with+tyler+peck&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8After the Rain (New Beginnings) with Maria Kowroski & Ask la Cour, performed on the rooftop of a building near Freedom Tower, honoring 9/11, gives us hope about the rebirth of the arts and the city once we’re throughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9R3chdzVLA (3 minutes)

Tuesday, April 14, 3:00pm -- TTN Webinar -   Register today! Friendship Lydia Denworth discusses her new book on Friendship. $5https://thetransitionnetwork.org/events/4221/nyc/

Tuesday, April 14, 12:30-1:30Senior PlanetChair Yoga Featuring poses and breath awareness. Develop betteralignment and mind-body connection.Click or tap to join this class by Zoom:https://seniorplanet.zoom.us/j/170361931Meeting ID: 170 361 931

Thursday, April 16, 7:30The Center for Fiction – Online Event: Free Blonde 20th Anniversary Celebration with Joyce Carol Oates and Jonathan Sandloferhttps://centerforfiction.org/event/blonde-20th-anniversary-celebration/?utm_source=General+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=5645874116-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_11_07_28_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5fe6362917-5645874116-152575&mc_cid=5645874116&mc_eid=dbd3897c7c

Friday, April 17,   5:00pm       "Cocktails with a Curator | Rembrandt's Polish Rider” Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator https://mailchi.mp/frick/mem_cocktails_1_apr_2020?e=6fb1183466

Monday, April 20, 8:00pm- 92nd St   Y FREE – Sofia Coppola on Filmmaking: A Talk and Q&A with Annette Insdorfhttps://www.92y.org/event/sofia-coppola

INWARD BOUND week of April 20, 2020MUSIC “At Home” GALA CONCERT with the Met. Saturday April 25, starting 1pm available thru Sunday evening. (3 hours) Featuring more than 40 artists including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Renee Fleming performing from their homes and live streamed on the Met’s website: https://www.metopera.org/season/at-home-gala/

MOZART’s MAGIC FLUTE has been recomposed by ShakeUp Music into a colorful bird aria that is so endearing! Check out the Papageno/Papagena duet here. http://volkerpannes.de/portfolio/bird-song-opera/

BOOK CLUB Monday April 20, 9 pm OUR BRILLIANT FRIENDS After Dinner Book Club and Watch Party featuring HBO’s Movie Series of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, which speaks to the strengths of female friendships. (1 hour) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-brilliant-friendsafter-dinner-book-club-watch-party-tickets-102344846190?aff=erelexpmlt

DANCE

SWAN LAKE Cygnets doing their charming syncopated dance! (2 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd2nTXsivHs&feature=youtu.be

ALVIN AILEY Night Creature LIMITED RUN April 23-26 (17 minutes) https://www.alvinailey.org/performances-tickets/ailey-allaccess?utm_source=aaadt_eblast_482020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=allaccess_divining

ART COCKTAILS WITH THE CURATOR, The Frick Collection - April 24, 5:00pm

Van Dyck's Sir John Suckling (15 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNVeJpU2DHHR_0y_Zvgn3MgZQQFcFx2eI

DRAMA SHAKESPEARE !! Unlimited podcasts exploring the work of the Bardhttps://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited NOTE: April 23 is his birthday!

FILM – through Thursday, April 23 FILM at Lincoln Center will be streaming THE BOOKSELLERS (99 min), an entertaining documentary, providing a lively tour of New York’s book world, past and present, from the Park Avenue Armory Antiquarian Book Fair; to the Strand and Argosy book stores, and beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers. The $10 fee goes directly to support Film at Lincoln Center. https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-booksellers/

Inward Bound for the week of May 4, 2020

MUSICAll week –From the Chicago Sinfonietta Something light, fun and musically harmonious to brighten your day. (3minutes)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu3v6PdR_00

All weekSalon Salut: Competitive Foursome A brilliant, talented, snappy and fun female musical performance! (3 Minutes)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKezUd_xw20

ARTAll week

Frick Museum Cocktails with a Curator Streaming now: Constable’s, White Horse May 8 5:00pm Turner’s, The Harbor of Dieppe

https://www.frick.org/cocktails_curator

DANCENureyev & Fonteyn – Swan Lake Rare footage of Nureyev and Fonteyn dancing Act 3 of Swan Lake (4 ½ minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDB8fV9PVTU&feature=youtu.be

Ballet Hispanico CARMEN. maquia (1 hour) A contemporary take on Bizet’s classic opera.Followed by CLUB HAVANA, (20 minutes) featuring Latin-inspired dancing at its best.http://lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/show/ballet-hispanico-49

BOOKS

May 7, 8-9 pm JCC Manhattan presents Authors in Quarantine – Literary agent Julie Barr talks with author Ann Napolitano about her most recent work and how hard times affect creativity.https://jccmanhattan.org/programs/authors-quarantine-community-book-talks-julie-barer-ann-napolitano-dear-edward?utm_source=Conversations&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ANNNAPOLITANO

MUSEUMS

All weekIf you would like to get a glimpse of Spring outside of the City watch this.New York Botanical Gardens Video Journey Through Springhttps://www.nybg.org/journey-through-spring/

PRESENTATIONS/TALKS

May 5, 7:00 pm –The Thought Gallery -- Cinco-de-science -- The Science of Taste – A panel of scientists discuss food production, whether taste takes place on the tongue or in the brain, and how the body responds.https://thoughtgallery.org/events/cinco-de-science-the-science-of-taste/

May 6, 7:00 pm

The Thought Gallery -- National Humanities Center, The History of the Afterlife. Professor Bart D Ehrman recounts where our ideas of the great-beyond come from. https://thoughtgallery.org/events/heaven-and-hell-a-history-of-the-afterlife/WELLNESS

May 6, 10:00-10:30 amMorning Stretch at Senior Planet Stretching and breathing exercises to reduce anxiety and stress. https://seniorplanet.org/event/morning-stretch/2020-05-06/

ART? or HUMOR?

All Week Spanish Facebook Group has People transforming themselves into Artworkhttps://mymodernmet.com/quearteencasa-home-art-challenge/

HUMOR

All week Ministry of Silly Walks. Video (1 minute) Michigan family ask all passersby to do “Silly Walks”As from the Monty Python sketch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjysTbrNUug

Inward Bound for the week of May 11, 2020

NEW YORK, NEW YORK LET’S GET STARTED:

Ride the Cyclone on Coney Islandhttps://lunaparknyc.com/experience-coney-island- iconic-rides-in-360/ (3 minutes)

Visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Enjoy Spring Flowershttps://www.bbg.org/news/stroll_through_the_japanese_garden_in_bloom_video

(18 min.)

 

A few minutes of Central Park(For the best experience of this video, click Full Screen on YouTube) https://youtu.be/0ADxw30zDh0

 

SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH TWO ICONIC EXHIBITS

See Audubon’s Birds (https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/collections/92584/audubons-watercolors-for-the-birds-of-america/objects )

and Tiffany Lamps  ( https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/collections/4868/tiffany-glass-the-dr- egon-neustadt-collection/objects

LEARN SOMETHING NEW

Seneca Village (8 min.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsWYOZ8iqM&t=11s

Alexander Hamilton’s New York – A Slideshowhttps://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848366-alexander-hamilton-s-new-york-city-a-tour-of-the-rooms-where-it-happened

Masterpiece Murals https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848410-the-unmissable-mural-masterpieces-hidden-around-new-york-city

Wondering How New York Became New York?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqYNNOsgpqc The Big Apple” A Short History of New York City (22 min.)

 

LIVING IN A ZOOM WORLD

How to Add a Background to Zoomhttps://medium.com/coverr/rock-your-zoom-video-meetings-with-fun-video-backgrounds-6cc69789a890

Adding a background with a New York Public Library Theme https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/04/01/library-themed-backgrounds-your-next-video-call

MUSIC AND DANCE TO LIFT OUR SPIRTS Bolero Julliard (9 min)The piece is a virtual collaboration with Juilliard’s community of artists, bringing together dancers, instrumentalists, singers, actors, and alumni. Bolero Juilliard showcases the talents and creativity of the Juilliard community “in a portrait of art-making and shared experience amid physical isolation and uncertainty,”… and to the power of art-making to bring us together.”https://www.juilliard.edu/school/news/media-gallery?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=content&utm_content=bolerojuilliard_04.30.20#/node/146356

FILM AND VIDEO

This MET produced film was inspired by the Costume Institute's 1982 exhibition "La Belle Époque," organized by the legendary Diana Vreeland. This outrageous and slyly self-aware documentary takes you on a journey from the heights of decadence in fin-de-siècle Paris through the global pandemonium of World War I, starring Diana Vreeland and Douglas Fairbanks. (1 hour)https://www.metmuseum.org/150/from-the-vaults?v=la-belle-epoque-1983-featuring-diana-vreeland-and-douglas-fairbanks-jr-from-the-vaults&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Museum&utm_campaign=2020_0502_MetNews_Videos&cs= 

Barbra Streisand Reminds Frontline Workers They’ll ‘Never Walk Alone’ | Playbillhttp://www.playbill.com/article/barbra-streisand-reminds-frontline-workers-theyll-never-walk-alone

What A Wonderful World From the Chicks with Dip gang of friendshttps://www.newfolk.org/blog/2020/4/30/vide-premiere-chicks-with-dip-what-a-wonderful-world

Inward Bound for the week of May 17, 2020

FRANCEParis Ballet dancers in quarantine keep dancing…joyful and exuberant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiM-x4fPFRI&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

Paris – If you think NY’s High Line is new and different, take a walk along Paris’s Promenade Plantee:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0CQ73TmVeo

BELGIUMGhent The exhibition of the famous Ghent altarpiece and other paintings by Jan Van Eyck was closed by the Corona virus. However, we can take a virtual tour of that exhibition which we now know will not reopen when the quarantine is over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IZxr6eGJqk

CHINA Beijing The Forbidden City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRcwAAsNz8 Over an hour, but absolutely fascinating.

Hong Kong Chinese Ballet Dancers perform another wild version of Bolero. It’s crazy fun. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/videos/hong-kong-ballet-dancers-ravel-bolero/?fbclid=IwAR3VukOeKuGTbV9QX4kXXr_JEM-AFOvN-21Du6M97v2puaGFWHK1heKXsvs

ITALYFlorence: Models created from Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinary drawings demonstrate his genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxOagUqdibw

JORDANPetra: fascinating video about the secrets of Petra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK1bwnqXvX4 Bit weird at the end – but really good look at an amazing place

INTERNATIONAL 34 Ballerinas from 14 countries dance the swans in Swan Lake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PT14o5Wq7gE&app=desktop

15 Unbelievable places that actually exist: https://youtu.be/pFoty21X370YouTube

THE UNIVERSE: And, just in case you think you’ve seen it all: you have not! https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/space/the-known-universe