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Peter Garritano | The New Yorker

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photo Peter Garritano - Cartoonist Roz Chast with “The M.R.I. of Love,” a work included in the exhibition “The Masters Series: Roz Chast” at the SVA Chelsea Gallery / [***]

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Holiday Gift Guide 2019: The Best Self-Care Gifts For Busy People - Forbes

Holiday Gift Guide 2019: The Best Self-Care Gifts For Busy People – Forbes

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Practicing self-care is one of the best things you can do for your health and well-being. Spending as little as ten minutes on taking care of yourself can have a huge impact on your physical and mental health. 

But prioritizing self-care can be a little difficult when you are juggling with multiple responsibilities and (almost) always have a jampacked schedule. 

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DISCOVER THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE “STRICTLY PLATONIC” ADS ON CRAIGSLIST Miss Rosen for Feature Shoot

n a city of 8.5 million, for some New York can feel like the loneliest place on earth. The irony of the crowd is the way it depersonalizes life; when everyone is a stranger, it can exacerbate antisocial tendencies. Add to the increasing dependency on digital communications, where three dimensions are reduced to two and people cease to act in real time and space, creating representations that they use to seek attention, albeit positive or negative.

For those with particular hobbies and tastes, or simply more inclined to introversion and risk adverse, making friends can be a challenge all its own. Craigslist understands this and offers “Strictly Platonic” personals. Here, people can say exactly what they want outside the context of a sexual or romantic exchange (although this is something of a grey areas, as many ads blur these lines).

These ads drew photographer Peter Garritano for something all his own: a Strictly Platonic opportunity to photograph the people whose faces were unshown. Although most people refused, quite a few were willing to engage, and the result is an on-going series of photographs titled Seeking that are as quirky as the ads themselves.

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Photo: Vegan bestie – w4w body: fit height: 5’6″ (167cm) status: single age: 26 Looking for an intelligent, vegan, self starting woman who wants to explore vegan food together. © Peter Garritano

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In the ‘60s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was all the rage: Benjamin Britten’s opera premiered in 1960, Balanchine’s ballet opened in 1962, Ashton’s The Dream came along in 1964, and Peter Hall’s film (with future Dames Diana Rigg, Helen Mirren, and Judi Dench, among the cast) was in 1968.

It was no passing fad. Both ballets are now set firmly in the repertoire, the opera is constantly staged, and film and television versions pop up like plastic bottles in the Pacific.

Balanchine’s ballet first came to La Scala in 2003 as a vehicle for Alessandra Ferri who was the theatre’s ‘prima ballerina assoluta’. Her Oberon was Roberto Bolle. It has proved a success for La Scala’s Ballet Company, and has staged many times and been taken on international tours. Now it has been revived — by Patricia Neary, as always — for the last time.

Ashton’s version has a more slapstick approach to the humour and a more erotic element to the relationships. Balanchine is more detached, though there is certainly humour, and Balanchine’s Bottom remains firmly outside Titania’s bower. He doesn’t have much time for the mechanicals, and he uses them only to get Bottom into the story and take him offstage when his scenes are through. The rest of the storytelling is eloquent, especially for a choreographer who rarely told stories.

Alessandro Grillo, Emanuela Montanari and Mariafrancesca Garritano

Emanuela Montanari and Antonino Sutera

Maurizio Licitra and Antonino Sutera

Virna Toppi

Two outstanding actress-dancers on the opening night were Emanuela Montanari as Helena and Mariafrancesca Garritano as Hermia. Montanari, with her hair down in the first act, looked like Catherine Zeta-Jones en pointe. She has poise and grace, and dances beautifully. Garritano’s arc of emotions from happy in love, to desperate in rejection, and back, was precisely judged with a sure technique which gives her full rein to express Hermia’s changing mood. Virna Toppi made a strong impression as a statuesque Hippolyta.

Titania is played by Principal Dancer Nicoletta Manni, who is an assured and regal dancer, though tends to keep too much within her comfort zone, with a range of expressions going from A to… well, she doesn’t reach Z. She needs a choreographer she trusts who can create a safe space where she can experiment in going further, and risk giving more. She has so many excellent qualities; a great asset to the company.

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Nicoletta Manni and Matthew Endicott

Nicoletta Manni and Nicola Del Freo

Nicoletta Manni and Marco Agostino

Nicoletta Manni

Manni danced both the first act and the second act pas de deux, a La Scala peculiarity. Balanchine had a separate couple for the second act pas, which represents perfect love, in contrast to the confusions and jealousies seen in the first act. At La Scala, from when Neary first set the ballet, only Ferri has danced it this way, the other Titanias appear in the second act along with their first act Cavalier.

Manni’s Cavalier, confusingly looked as though he could have been Oberon’s brother. Nicola Del Freo, (Oberon) and Marco Agostino (the Cavalier) look alike on stage, and had similar coloured costumes, so those in the upper galleries must have had a bewildering evening.

Nicola Del Freo

Del Freo was an excellent Oberon. He’s an honest dancer with clean legwork – all multiple beats and sissonnes – beautiful feet, and a noble air. Agostino, too, was an admirable partner. Antonino Sutera, as Puck, jumps around the stage with glee and abandon, grinning widely, though a shade more mischievousness would have rounded off his character.

The company danced with discipline and apparent joy which, a decade or so ago, wasn’t always the case. It is good to see them looking comfortable on stage and dancing so well. The orchestra was that of La Scala’s Academy and they almost played better than the theatre’s own orchestra: no one missed the habitual grimace-inducing sounds from the brass section.

Luisa Spinatelli’s gorgeously detailed costumes were often unfortunately lit, with coloured gels cancelling the subtle work in colour and texture, so only with the lighting for the applause did we see them in their full glory.

A truly satisfying evening at the ballet and, to misquote Puck, these shadows did not offend, and we gave them our hands with much pleasure.

Nicola Del Freo and Nicoletta Manni

Antonella Albano and Antonino Sutera

Divertissement pas de six

  Photo credits: Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Photos by Marco Brescia and Rudy Amisano / Teatro alla Scala

Balanchine’s Dream sprinkles its magic fairy dust over La Scala for the last time In the ‘60s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was all the rage: Benjamin Britten’s opera premiered in 1960, Balanchine’s ballet opened in 1962, Ashton’s…

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peter garritano is my cousin and i did not expect to see him trending on buzzfeed!!

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The photographer Peter Garritano pairs the familiar text of Craigslist ads next to his photographs of the people who actually sat down and typed them out.

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Cumulus and Datura Road  will perform at Green Kill on December 7, 2018 at 8 PM.  Tickets are 10 dollars at the door or may be reserved on eventbrite.com. Seating is limited to 45. Ozubar offers light refreshments and snacks.

About Cumulus

The harvesting of plant frequencies paired with two of the world’s most meditative musical instruments and traditions – Indian bansuri and Japanese koto. The result: an ambient world music fusion all its own, at once quickening yet meditative, ancient yet futuristic, transcendent yet worldly.

Listen to Cumulus

About Datura Road

“Datura Road is a world music ensemble that is combining the sounds of East and West with the energy of the Hudson Valley and greater New York area. Datura Road was created when guitarist, oudist, vocalist, and pennywhistle player, Matt Nobile invited guitarist/mandolinist, and former teacher Raphael Garritano, to work through some songs. Percussionist David Budd was recruited shortly thereafter, and bassist Peter Nobile was pulled in by his son Matt who then became the fourth member. Influenced by western classical and medieval music, and flavored with West African and Middle Eastern music, with a splash of jazz, Datura Road has a world music sound that is uniquely engaging and passionately palatable, achieving the best energy that world music has to offer. Their self-titled debut album contains innovative, fervent and talented performances. Each tune is unexpectedly lyrical and vibrates with deep sentiments of Eastern and Western sounds and colors. Datura Road is a musical celebration of the sounds of the East and the West as they infuse organic polyrhythms, gifted instrumental playing and drums and percussion, built around the exploration of deeply corporeal grooves. The band has a good collaborative feeling and have many guest artists that bring in new colors and sounds throughout the album. A restorative and uplifting listen all in one, meant to be enjoyed and shared. Its beauty is a kaleidoscope of delight.”

By Steph Cosme

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Datura Road with special guest Cumulus, December 7 Cumulus and Datura Road  will perform at Green Kill on December 7, 2018 at 8 PM.  Tickets are 10 dollars at the door or may be reserved on…

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Caderno de recortes do fotógrafo Bill Cunningham quando ainda produzia chapéus femininos para a alta sociedade norte-americana. Cunningham anexava fotos e artigos como referências para suas próprias produções. Fotos:  New York Times / Peter Garritano

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Street Etiquette’s Joshua Kissi Diversifies Stock Photos

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Joshua Kissi at his studio in Brooklyn. Credit Peter Garritano for The New York Times

Joshua Kissi

Age 28

Hometown The Bronx

Now Lives In his parents’ six-bedroom house in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

Claim to Fame Mr. Kissi is a founder of the men’s lifestyle blog Street Etiquette, a style journal that started in 2008 and focuses on fashion-forward black…

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We already know everyone’s looking for love, I’m more concerned with our social requirements beyond romance.

Peter Garritano, Project: Seeking http://www.petergarritano.com/seeking.html

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