Expedition to Rescue Sandi Kurz?

[edwin bock]

Sandi Kurz reports that her ISP is being fussy and
won't let her post anything to alt.arts.ballet.

She asked me to post her rejoinder and comments
about my next-to-last posting above under the
heading "Re: Post Limon Talk & Modern Dance Thread(s)".

Since Sandi's knowledge and taste are such vital
ingredients of this newsgroup, should we not
organize a virtual Northwest Relief Expedition
to rescue her (and us) from such harsh
isolation?

Ed Bock

[edwin bock]

(red faced)
--and rescue my pitiful spelling ability, whose kidnapping
led me to misspell her name!!!!

[Jooss]

> Sandi Kurz reports that her ISP is being fussy and
>> won't let her post anything to alt.arts.balle

So...what's the plan? Jooss
Jo...@aol.com

[eab...@my-deja.com]

In article <19991010115109...@ng-ce1.aol.com>,
jo...@aol.com (Jooss) wrote:
> > Sandi Kurtz reports that her ISP is being fussy and

> >> won't let her post anything to alt.arts.balle
>
> So...what's the plan? Jooss
> Jo...@aol.com
>

Thanks for your query; it moves me from rhetoric to
planning action. There seem to be two possible
courses:

First, to see if we can get the U of Washington to be
a bit more helpful in its web-use policy.

Second, if the first fails, to devise a relay of Sandi's
messages that will give the usual sender-identification
one finds in aab menus. It is not fair to her to have her
messages hidden under my sender-name.

Yours and others' ideas are most welcome.

Ed Bock

Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

[Nanatchka]

>Yours and others' ideas are most welcome.
>
>Ed Bock
>

Tillary, I presume? First, we get some chocolate, and Sandi gets some.
Expeditions need chocolate! Second, you keep relaying her messages, for which
we thank you. (You could, of course, have a second screen name, namely Sandi's,
but that seems idiotic. Soon you would be getting mal for her. Besides, it
would be a nuisance. And all the cross dressing before posting would get
tiresome, and you would start dreaming about Ruth St. Denis..)Third, How about
at the top of each one of hers you post you write in capital letters:
POST FROM SANDI KURTZ
and then her e-mail, if she wants it there.

As for her lurking under your name, it is a distinguished place to lurk!

I am not eating my dog on the way, no matter what,
Nanatchka

[LWindreich]

Sandi might consider subscribing (free) to Yahoo for using this newsgroup. LW

[Manhattnik]

I'm a little confused. I can undertand an ISP blocking newsgroups, especially
those pesky .alt ones, but can't she still log on to deja.com and do it via a
browser?

-- Manhattnik

All dances are too long, but some are more too-long than others.

[M. Lovejoy]

_i'm_ confused. i'm posting from uw, without hassle, so what's the
problem?

m

[edwin bock]

We can put away the dog-sled teams.

Sandi reports that she will soon be back in touch.

One of our valued dance history sources will not be denied
us much longer.

[Mikal Casalino]

X-42086-Poster: "Mikal Casalino" <cca...@worldnet.att.net>

hotmail?
easy and free.

m

>X-42076-Poster: manha...@aol.comnoQspam (Manhattnik)

[eab...@my-deja.com]

In article <19991011121124...@ng-fv1.aol.com>,
nana...@aol.comedit (Nanatchka) wrote in part:

>
>First, we get some chocolate, and Sandi gets some.
> Expeditions need chocolate>
>

> I am not eating my dog on the way, no matter what,
> Nanatchka
>

Nanatchka's imagination suggests the possibility of someone
creating a South Pole ballet based on the tragic Scott
expedition. Its history offers a rich choice of ingredients
to a choreographer including:
(a) the unsuccessful race to the Pole against Amundson
(whose men ate their dogs); (b) Scott's inflexible amateurism
and hubris punished by failure and death; (c) back at home,
Scott's driving, artistic, much sought-after wife has her
tragic come-uppance by marrying an even more creative and
insistant second-husband.

Obvious music ("ob music") as they would say in rec.arts.
books: Vaughn-Williams Antarctic Symphony, based on his
music for "Scott of the Antarctic".

Further ideas welcome.

[eab...@my-deja.com]

Forgot to add two possible attractions to a choreographer:

1. Crisis moment when Scott has to decide whether to eat
his exhausted, about-to-be shot ponies.

2. Possible dances could include Greek Chorus of penguins.
Also a choreographic challenge: pas de quatre on snowshoes?

EdB

[Manhattnik]

I was born to dance "The Dying Malamute."

Let's not forget that while Scott was dying, his social-climber wife was having
an affair with Nansen. Are Norwegians close enough to Denmark to allow for
Bournonvillian pastiche to represent them?

[A.T.]

How could one resist a scenario which would include the famous "Doggie
Ballabile" (a pas de cinq, I think) after which the dogs were eaten?

Manhattnik, Bournonville did a couple of Norwegian ballets, so there's
precedent. But I see a Graham piece in this. Think what Noguchi could do
with ice! Think what Graham could do with Ice. Think of her as the wife.
Social climbing? No. Misunderstood. Repressed. The true artist and
explorer in the family. Or perhaps the husband's insistence on polar
exploration had another reason......

If one insisted on being truly up to date, perhaps the audience could eat
the dogs after the Doggie Ballabile, and the remains could be displayed in
Brooklyn.

Alexandra

<eab...@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7tv9pc$kvv$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...

[Manhattnik]

>How could one resist a scenario which would include the famous "Doggie
>Ballabile" (a pas de cinq, I think) after which the dogs were eaten?

Well, this was where the phrase, "dog eat dog" world came from, I think.

It could start as a pas de cinq.....

And, let's not forget the dream duet between Scott and Amundsen. Oh, wait,
that's Songs of a Wayfarer, isn't it?

[Nanatchka]

>Nanatchka's imagination suggests the possibility of someone
>creating a South Pole ballet based on the tragic Scott
>expedition. I

writes Ed Bock.

"Akita," remember
Akita?" Several years ago a poster wanted information about a ballet he called
"Akita."At least we have our title! If we really got serious, we could ask Ted
Talley to do the libretto--he wrote a truly marvelous play about Scott's
expedition called "Terra Nova."
Nanatchka

[Nanatchka]

>And, let's not forget the dream duet between Scott and Amundsen.

There *is* a dream scene in Ted Talley's play Terra Nova. The men are all
shown at a banquet table, in black tie, celebrating their journey, and then it
all dissolves and they are back out on the ice again. Very effective. There are
not a lot of roles for women (1, to be exact) but I suppose women could dance
the dogs, if you have dogs.
Nanatchka

[db]

Women could be penguins. Maybe female penguins on pointe could dance with males
on snowshoe. --Lobelia

[db]

Worth doing just for the chorus of penguins. And maybe the
snowshoes--would that be a first? --Lobelia

eab...@my-deja.com wrote:

> Forgot to add two possible attractions to a choreographer:
>
> 1. Crisis moment when Scott has to decide whether to eat
> his exhausted, about-to-be shot ponies.
>
> 2. Possible dances could include Greek Chorus of penguins.
> Also a choreographic challenge: pas de quatre on snowshoes?
>
> EdB
>

[db]

About that blank post I sent--it's not that I pressed send instead of
quote, that was the scenery.

--Lobelia

[Jooss]

My question is would female or male dancers perform the four little mushers?

That is said as the owner of three Great Danes who nobody is going to eat!!!
lili

Jo...@aol.com

[Nanatchka]

>That is said as the owner of three Great Danes

Tell us, is one of these dogseurs named Erik Bruhn, Lili?
Nanatchka

[Tr...@email.fake]

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway
db <plai...@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Worth doing just for the chorus of penguins. And maybe the
>snowshoes--would that be a first? --Lobelia

There are penguins (sans snowshoes) in Bintley's "Still Life
at the Penguin Cafe". (Ok so techically they are great auks
but then the great auk was the original penguin).

Trog Woolley
(A Croweater languishing in Pommie Land)

Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna

[Jooss]

>Tell us, is one of these dogseurs named Erik Bruhn, Lili?
>Nanatchka
>

Unfortunately not. All three are Boston Great Dances (black and white) so Erik
didn't seem to fit. My big guy, 185 lbs. is named Clyde and can be seen on the
back cover of my book [by the way, now out in paperback for $17.95) His mom at
145 lbs is named Liberty and his daughter [properly bred to a Harlequin of
different heritage] weighs in at 165.

All three have agreed to protect all cast members including the penguins which
I explained were actually miniature nuns from an Artic convent. Their only
request is that they be allowed to wear green berets.

smile a lot today! lili
Jo...@aol.com

[db]

Sorry about that second glimpseof the scenery. Sandi Kurtz is still having trouble
communicating to aab and asks me to pass this along:

I'm thrilled to be a small part in the generation of this thread, and thought people
might like to know that the local children's theater in Seattle did a version of Mr.
Popper's Penguins a couple years ago where the penguins were tap dancers. Seemed
like an obvious choice to me.

sandi kurtz

db wrote:

Miki, can we use your dog for the rescue? We need Sandi back.

[Nanatchka]

>
>There are penguins (sans snowshoes) in Bintley's "Still Life
>at the Penguin Cafe".

Oh lord, I remember them. Memo to Lobelia: Lose the penguins.
Nanatchka

[Nanatchka]

> the penguins which
>I explained were actually miniature nuns from an Artic convent.

This is going to get us into a lot of trouble in NYCity. Don't let your dogs
tell our mayor about it. He is very touchy about Catholic imagery. I hope the
dogs are housetrained, he is also touchy about animal droppings.
Nanatchka

[Tr...@email.fake]

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway

nana...@aol.comedit (Nanatchka) wrote:

And lets not forget Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins". On second
thoughts lets not remeber Dick Van Dyke.

[Jooss]

>This is going to get us into a lot of trouble in NYCity. Don't let your dogs
>tell our mayor about it. He is very touchy about Catholic imagery. I hope the
>dogs are housetrained, he is also touchy about animal droppings.
>Nanatchka
>

Cradle Catholic here, dogs have their own kennels and run within which to do
their duty. They drop in the house when we've been away for more than a week -
or once they see the suitacases come out. Thank God they don't have to live in
NYC - I'd have to walk then with a wheel barrow!!! lili

Jo...@aol.com

[MEast10516]

Please bring chocolate while I'm visiting the Essential Kurtz.
And I won't eat my dog on the way either.
Or my cat! muw