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QUILL SHOT MAGAZINE
Dawn Branch is a native New Yorker who began her dancetraining at the Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center in Queens, New York. She then attended and graduated from the prestigious LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts (The “Fame” School). While there, Ms. Branch trained in the Cecchetti ballet technique and studied the Graham technique with Penny Frank and Elise King. While attending high school, Ms. Branch also trained at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, where she was recognized as a promising dancer and awarded a two-year dance scholarship. At the Ailey school she studied ballet with Robert Christopher. She also studied modern with Denise Jefferson and jazz with pioneer and Emmy award winner Gus Giordano. Other teachers were Carol Fried, Anna Maria Forsythe and Ronald Brown. Ms. Branch also studied with Kevin Jeff (founder and artistic director of the Chicago-based Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and Artist in Residence at Purdue University’s Black Cultural Center in Lafayette, Indiana); Obediah Wright (founder and Director of Balance Dance Theatre); Shirley Black-Brown and Aaron Dugger.
The idea for the name Debout Sur Le Zinc, literally “standing on the zinc,” originally came after a concert in which Christophe, guitarist/singer was standing on the bar counter playing the accordion. The discovery that the bar or zinc--the material bar countertops were once made of--used to serve as a stage for people to recite poems, sing or make political speeches, and the expression also being in a poem by Jacques Prévert further reinforced the name.
As I am inspired by fashion and have been enjoying helping my clients to reinvigorate their lives by accompanying them on their path to self-transformation. As well as being a guide through the multiple layers of fashion and clothing, I am also a stylist and personal shopper and a confidante. When you combine this with my knowledge of fashion trends, it gives me the ability to build a unique image and the best style that resonates with each and every individual.
KOTORI Magazine
KOTORI
Where the future of music, art and politics collide to define a new and necessary progressive culture.
KOTORI
is devoted to keeping readers informed on socially conscious artists in the increasingly collaborative fields of rock, hip-hop and electronica.
KOTORI
is dedicated to providing its readers with insight into an emerging culture defined by progress towards a globally cooperative and environmentally sound way of life.
KOTORI
is a different kind of magazine for a different kind of generation.
LYDIA MILLET
The ever elusive Lydia Millet is certainly becoming an American novelist who knows what to lasso in a country floundering in techno-jibberish. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was short-listed for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her most recent work, a collection of short stories entitled "Love in Infant Monkeys" was one of three finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.
Millet was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Toronto, Canada. She holds a BA in Creative Writing with honors from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree from Duke University.
Founders of the group Neil Mackie and Miyuki Williams lived and trained intensively in Japan for two years with Master Drummer Masaaki Kurumaya Sensei, returning to the UK to form the group in 1994. The group have since returned regularly to their original place of learning both to perform and continue their ongoing training.
Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers present taiko in a modern and theatrical style – with precise choreography, dramatic lighting, and a variety costumes ranging from the post-apocalyptic industrial look to gorgeous earthy silks. The concert itself is extremely musically varied; thundering rhythms on huge Taiko drums interweave with delicate Shinobue bamboo flute and percussion in a visually spellbinding display of grace, choreography and athleticism.
Jovanovic is a Melbourne based documentary photographer. She has been photographing people for 20 years and has spent ten years photographing people in Cuba specifically.
Her first title, Cuba Que Bolá, published in 1994 and awaiting publication of its 3rd edition, documents Cuban daily life and depicts the resilience, struggle and humour of uncertain times.
Retrato De Los Santos, her second volume of photography is an in depth work on the subject of Santerìa and is scheduled for release in 2018.
She has exhibited extensively in Australia, The USA and Cuba. Her work is held in both private and public collections and she is a founding member of M33.
Her photography has appeared in Aperture Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vogue, The Age, Black and White Magazine and Zoo.
With locations in Portland, Seattle, New York and Palm Springs, California, each Ace hotel is the antithesis of the cookie-cutter offerings found in some consolidated hotel giants. The lobbies and common areas abound with unique touches—vintage and custom-designed furniture, original pieces from local artists—that represent the personality of the people behind them, while quirky room layouts reflect the resourceful adaption of old spaces. That latter point is one of the most distinguishing aspects of the collection. Ace doesn’t do full-gut renovations when transplanting a hotel concept from design to reality. Instead, the development team targets old, historical buildings of cultural significance, working with as much of the existing building’s framework as possible while evolving the concept within that space.
The magazine was launched in 2000. In 2004, the editors unsuccessfully tried to prevent the Daily Mirror newspaper from publishing a short-lived 3am Magazine supplement based around its 3am Girls gossip column. The Independent has hailed its commitment to 'the avant-garde' on several occasions. The Spanish daily ABC hailed it as "the Offbeats’ New Yorker".
An anthology covering its first five years of publishing, The Edgier Waters, was published in Britain by Snowbooks in June 2006, featuring writers Steve Almond, ASTOR RISQU, Bruce Benderson,Michael Bracewell, Tom Bradley, Billy Childish, Steven Hall, Ben Myers, Tim Parks, Mark Simpson, HP Tinker and Kenji Siratori, as well as poetry pieces arranged by Sonic Youth'sThurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo alongside Tyondai Braxton.
A volume of new city-themed fiction, 3:AM London, Paris, New York followed in February 2008 (on Social Disease) and featured Henry Baum, Chris Cleave, Niven Govinden, Laura Hird, Toby Litt, Ed Park, Nicholas Royle, Matt Thorne and Evie Wyld.
Recently it has carried poetry by Charles Bukowski and featured interviews by Bukowski acolyte Ben Pleasants, including with John Fante.
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