5 Things to Do This Weekend
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.
Feb. 11, 2021
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Bijayini Satpathy in a scene from the short film “Vibhanga,” which is free to view at Baryshnikov Arts Center’s website until Monday evening.Credit.via Baryshnikov Arts Center
The classical Indian dance form Odissi is a ravishment of curves. It can seem to take the sinuous sculptures of Indian temples and animate them, deepening the bends in motion, pressing more beauty from the poses.
In recent decades, much of the best Odissi has come from Nrityagram, a company with its own dance village in southern India near Bangalore. A few years ago, the company’s star dancer, Bijayini Satpathy, broke off on her own to try her hand at solo work and choreography. Now, “Vibhanga,” a new solo she created and performed for the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s series of digital commissions, is viewable free at the center’s website until Monday at 5
Eddie Anderson
Last week we featured actress Gertrude Howard in the column and she had an amusing male counterpart in the early Hollywood years Eddie “Rochester” Anderson. There is no indication in their film legacies that they were ever in the same film, though both had uncredited roles in different productions of “Show Boat” Howard in 1929 and Anderson in 1936. In fact, Howard’s career was coming to an end as Anderson’s was just beginning to bloom.
Born Edmund Lincoln Anderson on Sept. 18, 1905 in Oakland, California, he was better known as Rochester, where he functioned in a number of capacities with Jack Benny, in films and especially on television. Like so many aspiring African American performers of the day, he got his start as a teenager on the vaudeville circuit.
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