I WENT TO ¡ARRIBA! TO THE HIGH LINE.

Last Wednesday, June 19, I went to ¡Arriba!; The community Dance Party at the High Line at West 16th Street and Chelsea Market Passage. 

From 6 pm to 9 pm everybody here at the High Line were dancing Salsa and Merengue under the rhythm of Orlando Marin, the  Bronx Native, who formed his first band in the 1950s. Since then Marin and his team of musicians have become the longest running Latin band in New York City after the legendary Tito Puente.

Orlando Marin and his band.

Everybody  were dancing.

I couldn't resist to dance salsa here with my sister.



THE HIGH LINE IN NYC:

The High Line is a 1-mile (1.6 km) New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. 

A similar project in Paris (the nearly 3 mile Promenade plantée, completed in 1993) was the inspiration for this project. The High Line Park currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, up to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center.

The recycling of the railway into an urban park has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line.

The next ¡Arriba! community dance Party at the High Line will be Wednesday, July 24 with Liliana Araújo and her lively band Forró da Madame and Wednesday, August 21, Inspired by the guajiro musical rhythms of Cuba, Nu D’Lux.

See more information about the next  ¡Arriba! community dance Party at the High Line web:http://www.thehighline.org

THE MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL...

The  annual Museum Mile Festival, the biggest block party in New York City, now celebrating its 35th aniversary, it is a huge festival  that  offering free access to ten museums, located in the the Upper East side well known like the Museum Mile area.

Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception.

Festival attendees can walk the Mile between 82nd Street and 105th Street while visiting nine of the New York City's Top  museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (The Temple of Spirit), The Jewish Museum, The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, The National Academy Museum and School, The Neue Galerie New York, and visitors can also walk to 110 Street to visit the newest  Museum, The Museum for African Art.

The Museum Mile Festival's will take place on tusday, June 11, 2013  and the opening ceremony takes place at 5:45 pm at The Jewish Museum (Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street).

See more information about the Museum Mile Festival en the web: http://museummilefestival.org/

'TONY' IS... 'PERRY'.

                               Reflecting on her carrer in 1935, Miss Perry wrote: "I wanted to be an actress as soon as I could lisp. I didn't say I was going to become an actress. I felt I was one. No one could have convinced me I wasn't".    Antoinette Perry.

Mary Antoinette Perry (1888 - 1946) was an actress,  born in Denver, Colorado, where she spent her childhood aspiring to replicate the thespian artistry of her aunt and uncle, both of whom were well-respected touring actors. 

She appeared opposite David Warfield in Music Master in 1906 when she was only 18. Her career was on the rise, yet she left the stage a star in 1909, to marry Denver businessman Frank W. Frueauff and start a family. 

Perry helped found, and was chairwoman of the board and secretary of, the American Theatre Wing, which operated the Stage Door Canteens during World War II, providing entertainment to servicemen in several American cities. 

After her death, her friends and colleagues took action to memorialize her contribution to the high standards of American theatre. Brock Pemberton suggested that the American Theatre Wing create a series of awards to be given in her honor. 

Since 1947, the Antoinette Perry Awards, have been given annually for distinguished achievement in live Broadway theatre, and are one of the theatre world's most coveted honors. They are universally known by their nickname, the Tony Awards.

The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre. Several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. 

The Tony Awards are to the theatre industry like the Oscar Awards to the motion pictures, the Grammy Awards to the music and the Emmy Awards for television.

From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, when it was held at the Gershwin Theatre. In 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. 

The 67th Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall on June 9, 2013.

See the 2012 Tony Awards Openning in the following video:

See the 2013 nominated in the web: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/

YOU CAN TOUCH MY HAIR...

You can touch my hair is an Interactive public art exhibit that will take this week in New York City, where women of color with various textures and types of hair will take part in a two-day  interactive public art exhibit where they will be stand in the middle of the  Union Square with sayings saying, "You can touch my hair".

The event schedule will be this Thursday 6 of June and Saturday 8 of June, from 2pm to 4 pm. (free admission).


Union Square

The Union Square is located at the intersection of Broadway and 4th Avenue, which in colonial times led to Albany and Boston, Union Square, was laid out in 1931 and opened in 1939.

In the 1840's this was a wealthy residential area; after de Civil War, it became New York's theater district, with de presence of the Academy of Music on 14th street (the side now occupied by Con Edison Building), and several others theaters. 

In 1880's with the development of the Ladies' Mile, commercial establishments moved to the neighborhood and a few early examples of skyscraper were erected to the west of Union Square. 

After 1910, as commercial and artistic establishments moved uptown, it became a favorite site for labor-union gatherings and political demonstrations, particularly during the inter-war years.  

These have included such unforgettable gatherings as the demonstration on august 22, 1927 against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the protest march of 35,000 unemployment workers in March of 1936, during the Great Depression. 

A fruit and vegetable market now occupies Union Square four days a week. 

The best day to go is Saturday, especially at the end of summer and in the fall, at harvest time. I love this place, one of my favorites in New York City.

"THE OSCAR OF FASHION"...

The Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It is named for Alice Tully, a New York performer and philanthropist whose donations assisted in the construction of the hall. Tully Hall is located within the Juilliard Building, a Brutalist structure, which was designed by renowned architect Pietro Belluschi, and completed and opened in 1969.

                                       Tully Hall seats 1,086 patrons

Since its opening, the Tully Hall, it has hosted numerous performances and events, including Mostly Mozart, Great Performers, the New York Film Festival, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards, will be take place today Monday 3 of June, here at Lincolns Center's Ali Tully Hall and will be broadcast on Tuesday, June 4th, only on Style.com.

                                            "The Oscar of Fashion"

The Council of Fashion Designers of America, (CFDA), was founded in 1962 by publicist Eleanor Lambert, and it is a not-for-profit trade association of over 450 prominent American fashion and accessory designers. As of 2009, Diane von Furstenberg is the group's President and Steven Kolb is the Chief Executive Officer. The organization's mission is: To further the position of fashion design as a recognized branch of American art and culture; To advance artistic and professional standards within the fashion industry; To establish and maintain a code of ethics and practices of mutual benefit in professional, public, and trade relations; To promote and improve public understanding and appreciation of the fashion arts through leadership in quality and taste; To create partnerships which lead to collaborative design opportunities for our Members; To support the overall growth of American fashion as a global industry.

In addition to hosting the annual CFDA Fashion Awards, which honors excellence in fashion design, is often called “the Oscar of Fashion". 

The nominations are submitted by CFDA members and by select fashion publications, retailers, and stylist. Awards winners are voted on and announced at an annual gala event held at Lincoln Center in New York City.

You can see the present nominees and winners of previous editions in the CFDA web: http://cfda.com/cfda-fashion-awards