Showing posts with label Lincoln Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln Center. Show all posts

Saturday, July 1, 2017

I Shook My Groove Thing

Yes, it is true. I am an old disco queen. I went from rocking out to David Bowie, when the songs were new, to leaving home at 11pm, totally dolled up, only to roll into work at Newsweek Magazine the next morning after dancing the night away. So, you can imagine my joy when Mid-Summer Night Swing at Lincoln Center hosted Disco Night. Every night for two weeks, the plaza is mobbed with people who seriously come to dance to all kinds of music, and then, the voyeurs, like me. Everybody loves everybody on these nights. People dance with those they come with, and those who just happen to be next to them. Smiles all around. It is a real NY spectacle gem and tradition of summer nights in NY.  It is also an urban sketchers dream, with so many characters and so much activity. My fantasy of being a back up singer was realized as I grabbed a piece of stone bench to the side and stood, at first, drawing, then boogie, then, drawing, then boogie, and then, well, could not help it, I was swirling and dancing and drawing all at once, with thousands of other New Yorkers who were re-living their days of glory. I'm going to go, now. I should be dancin' yeah.




Thursday, July 31, 2014

Happy Accident on Columbus Avenue

With only two weeks left until school starts, it is a bittersweet time. Beach days have given way to lesson plans, assessment, new faculty hires, tracking down paperwork, wah, wah, wah…Long, languorous days of drawing are now peppered with errands, meetings and all of that back to school prep that has that air of excitement and anticipation- but busy. So, when after a downtown meeting, I hopped off the bus, literally, into a free lunchtime jazz concert across from Lincoln Center, I thought, this is too good to be true! The sun was hot and the air was cool this day- and so was the music. Though I had missed the first hour forty, I had twenty minutes-I found myself a spot and got lost in the moment.





There you have it- drawing saved me again. Changed my whole day.