The College at Brockport’s Department of Dance has a long history of hiring teachers who are professional artists with years of experience performing and choreographing modern dance. The department celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with its annual Danscore performances. According to the department interim chair James Hansen, the landscape for dance in higher learning […]
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Kathy reviews ‘Really Rosie’ and ‘Merged V’
There truly is something for everyone at Fringe. And that includes kids. Friday evening, I stepped into what felt like a storybook come-to-life in “Really Rosie.” The production at Blackfriars Theatre combines music by the incomparable Carole King with lyrics by Maurice Sendak (of “Where the Wild Things Are” fame) and an energetic young cast. […]
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Photos from “Merged III”
With new works created by choreographers Heather Roffe and James Hansen, “Merged III” premiered at Geva Theatre Center on Thursday night. The performances will continue on Saturday, September 19, at 4 p.m., and Sunday, September 20, at 6:30 p.m. $10-$12. Appropriate for all ages. [SLIDESHOW-1] Related Stories
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Climate change is not just a future problem
Climate change is a young person’s problem, but it’s also a moral issue for people of all ages. Let me explain. We, as in all of the people on earth, are already seeing the effects of climate change: heatwaves are becoming more frequent and more intense, droughts are worsening, the oceans are warming, ice caps […]
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Victory over climate change
James Hansen sat in front of members of the US Senate and told them that the Earth is warming and that human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are to blame. Back in 1988. Hansen was director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at the time and had been studying global warming and the greenhouse effect since […]
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Rebecca reviews “Merged II”
The final Fringe Festival performance of “Merged II” was presented on Wednesday night at Geva’sNextstage. This deeply moving and visually stunning series of performances was a fantastic celebration of the human body’s capabilities to strive and express and explore and persevere. A few of the seven pieces resonated more powerfully with me than others. A […]
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Hansen’s retirement from NASA could be climate movement’s gain
A development at NASA yesterday may prove to be a pivotal event in the fight against the Keystone XL oil pipeline: high-profile NASA climate scientist James Hansen announced his retirement. Why? He says he wants to devote more time to climate change activism. And news reports say that may include an active role in legal […]
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Leading scientist says he underestimated climate change
This is not the kind of headline that inspires confidence or optimism: “Climate change is here — and worse than we thought.” The accompanying op-ed was written by James Hansen, a top scientist at NASA and a leading climate-change researcher. And in the second paragraph, he says his earlier projections for what climate change will […]
