3265 NA-E: NYC Hit and Run thru Christo's Gates
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:01:59 +0100
From: Christian Lüthen <christian.luethen@GMX.NET>
Subject: Re: NA-E: NYC Hit and Run thru Christo's Gates
This was on Tango-A ... (great idea!!!)
... anyone been there????
I'd love to see picture!
[would have loved to see "The Gates" (after "The Reichstag" ant "The
Wall"), even more to take part in a hit&run-milonga under the gates!]
Please: comment!!!
Christian
On 26 Feb 2005 at 15:16, Lucille Krasne wrote:
> Sunday, unless major storm---last day of the Gates---we'll be at
> Bethesda Fountain at 1pm, where------
>
> Gerald Wagner and wife, Joy Low, will have brought a bunch of shiny
> blue fabric and where some tango dancers will arrive to dance through
> the Gates. Someone will be pulling boom box and speakers. Gerald had
> originally planned it to happen last week but weather was very bad.
> It hopefully will be sunny tomorrow and in high 30's. Why not just
> show up if you can with or without fabric? Bring cameras and thermos!
>
> Lucille
> PS Remember Hit and Run Rules to Live By: free or cheap space, open
> to
> public, little or no red tape, interesting environment. And run or
> tango away quickly when chased by cops.
>
> - Geographical topics keywords (SA, NA-E, NA-C, NA-W, EU-W, EU-E,
> AASP, MISC) must appear as first word on Subject line and be followed
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> -
>
christian@eTanguero.net
https://www.eTanguero.net/
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:34:34 -0800
From: Jennifer Bratt <jennifer@CLOSE-EMBRACE.COM>
Subject: Re: NA-E: NYC Hit and Run thru Christo's Gates
I was there ... and yes, as luck would have it, I had my trusty camera!
photos were just posted here:
https://www.close-embrace.com/thegates022705/index.htm
It was a very, very cool place to tango. Thanks to Gerald, Joy, and Lucille
for organizing, and Trey and Guy for music. (And Ko and Shi-noh for hot
wine!) A bunch of people came up to Lucille thinking she was Jeanne-Claude;
must be that gorgeous hair. We eventually wound up getting busted by a park
ranger for playing amplified music sans permit, but not before we got a good
two hours of dancing in. And well, I guess that's part of the fun of
hitting and then running anyhow.
The specatacle of the Gates themselves is astounding. They made the bleak
winter landscape of Central Park come alive, not just with vibrant color,
but with crowds and crowds of people from NYC and from all over the world.
(I met a man in a milonga last week who had made the trip from Germany
solely for the purpose of seeing the Gates.) The pathways were crowded with
all sorts of characters (the least strange of which were the tango dancers
with blue scarves); and everywhere total strangers were talking to each
other about the Gates, the sunny day, whatever. Anything that can inspire
that sort of sense of community and nice feeling must be a very, very good
thing. (Even if it has a $21 million price tag! :)
abrazos,
Jennifer
[ISO-8859-1] Christian L�then writes:
> This was on Tango-A ... (great idea!!!)
> ... anyone been there????
>
> I'd love to see picture!
> [would have loved to see "The Gates" (after "The Reichstag" ant "The
> Wall"), even more to take part in a hit&run-milonga under the gates!]
>
> Please: comment!!!
> Christian
>
>
>
> On 26 Feb 2005 at 15:16, Lucille Krasne wrote:
>
>> Sunday, unless major storm---last day of the Gates---we'll be at
>> Bethesda Fountain at 1pm, where------
>>
>> Gerald Wagner and wife, Joy Low, will have brought a bunch of shiny
>> blue fabric and where some tango dancers will arrive to dance through
>> the Gates. Someone will be pulling boom box and speakers. Gerald had
>> originally planned it to happen last week but weather was very bad.
>> It hopefully will be sunny tomorrow and in high 30's. Why not just
>> show up if you can with or without fabric? Bring cameras and thermos!
>>
>> Lucille
>> PS Remember Hit and Run Rules to Live By: free or cheap space, open
>> to
>> public, little or no red tape, interesting environment. And run or
>> tango away quickly when chased by cops.
>>
>> - Geographical topics keywords (SA, NA-E, NA-C, NA-W, EU-W, EU-E,
>> AASP, MISC) must appear as first word on Subject line and be followed
>> by a colon. E.g, Subject: SA: New Milonga in Buenos Aires
>> -
>>
>
> christian@eTanguero.net
> https://www.eTanguero.net/
>
* * * * * * * * *
Jennifer Bratt
Maleva & Co.
www.close-embrace.com
jennifer@close-embrace.com
718.753.0521
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:59:47 -0500
From: Ilene Marder <imhmedia@ULSTER.NET>
Subject: Re: NA-E: NYC Hit and Run thru Christo's Gates
Hurray to Jennifer for her photographs of 'tango at the gates' a la
lucille and nyc compadres!! And thank you, once again, Lucille.
Thank -you Jennifer for sharing this lovely happening - I wanted to go
but couldn't get there in time - so I really appreciate it.
(by the way, no one looked disturbed by your presence......!!!)
dance tango for peace
Ilene
Woodstock Tango
Jennifer Bratt wrote:
> I was there ... and yes, as luck would have it, I had my trusty camera!
>
> photos were just posted here:
> https://www.close-embrace.com/thegates022705/index.htm
>
> It was a very, very cool place to tango. Thanks to Gerald, Joy, and
> Lucille
> for organizing, and Trey and Guy for music. (And Ko and Shi-noh for hot
> wine!) A bunch of people came up to Lucille thinking she was
> Jeanne-Claude;
> must be that gorgeous hair. We eventually wound up getting busted by a
> park
> ranger for playing amplified music sans permit, but not before we got
> a good
> two hours of dancing in. And well, I guess that's part of the fun of
> hitting and then running anyhow.
>
> The specatacle of the Gates themselves is astounding. They made the
> bleak
> winter landscape of Central Park come alive, not just with vibrant color,
> but with crowds and crowds of people from NYC and from all over the
> world.
> (I met a man in a milonga last week who had made the trip from Germany
> solely for the purpose of seeing the Gates.) The pathways were crowded
> with
> all sorts of characters (the least strange of which were the tango
> dancers
> with blue scarves); and everywhere total strangers were talking to each
> other about the Gates, the sunny day, whatever. Anything that can
> inspire
> that sort of sense of community and nice feeling must be a very, very
> good
> thing. (Even if it has a $21 million price tag! :)
>
> abrazos,
> Jennifer
>
>
>
>
>
> [ISO-8859-1] Christian L�then writes:
>
>> This was on Tango-A ... (great idea!!!)
>> ... anyone been there????
>>
>> I'd love to see picture!
>> [would have loved to see "The Gates" (after "The Reichstag" ant "The
>> Wall"), even more to take part in a hit&run-milonga under the gates!]
>>
>> Please: comment!!!
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 Feb 2005 at 15:16, Lucille Krasne wrote:
>>
>>> Sunday, unless major storm---last day of the Gates---we'll be at
>>> Bethesda Fountain at 1pm, where------
>>>
>>> Gerald Wagner and wife, Joy Low, will have brought a bunch of shiny
>>> blue fabric and where some tango dancers will arrive to dance through
>>> the Gates. Someone will be pulling boom box and speakers. Gerald had
>>> originally planned it to happen last week but weather was very bad.
>>> It hopefully will be sunny tomorrow and in high 30's. Why not just
>>> show up if you can with or without fabric? Bring cameras and thermos!
>>>
>>> Lucille
>>> PS Remember Hit and Run Rules to Live By: free or cheap space, open
>>> to
>>> public, little or no red tape, interesting environment. And run or
>>> tango away quickly when chased by cops.
>>>
-
>>> - Geographical topics keywords (SA, NA-E, NA-C, NA-W, EU-W, EU-E,
>>> AASP, MISC) must appear as first word on Subject line and be followed
>>> by a colon. E.g, Subject: SA: New Milonga in Buenos Aires
-
>>> -
>>>
>>
>> christian@eTanguero.net
>> https://www.eTanguero.net/
>>
-
-
>
>
>
>
> * * * * * * * * *
> Jennifer Bratt
> Maleva & Co.
> www.close-embrace.com
> jennifer@close-embrace.com
> 718.753.0521
>
>
>
>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:04:57 -0800
From: Derik Rawson <rawsonweb@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: NA-E: NYC Hit and Run thru Christo's Gates
Dear Jennifer:
Great photographs! Wonderful. To me, this is what
tango is all about. I think that it is a social event
to be shared with others.
I love the idea of Guerrilla Tango or Hit and Run
Tango. I remember doing it during the total eclipse a
few years ago in the streets of Rheims, France just
North of Paris at high noon during the 3 minutes of
total darkness. I met a total stranger, Kim, from
Amsterdam via E-mail, and we danced tango. My friends
from CNN and BBC took our picture while we danced.
What a blast. Lots of fun.
I also have to shoot films like this in New York a lot
of the time, as do others. Hit and Run is the only
way sometimes. If the unions do not get you, the cops
will....lol. Just set up the camera, grab the footage
and run. Cool. Same applies to tango. dance and
run. It is part of the adventure of tango. Tango is
a street dance after all. Sometimes I think that
people forget that.
I am sure that the reason the Gates cost 21 million
was that it was not a hit and run affair. All the
city officials and their friends had to be paid off.
It was fun but really expensive. Seems to me that art
today is more merchandising and less art, but I guess
in a way it has always been that way. It is now just
a question of the scale of the art. Now it is larger
and plays to a much wider audience. Personally, I
would rather spend 21 million on a classic painting,
but the Gates was something that everyone could
appreciate, so I guess it is art as well.
Anyway, I think the point about photography at tango
events has now been made by your wonderful pictures of
Tango at the Gates. Sometimes photography is very
appropriate and even part of the fun of dancing tango.
Hope that I can make the next Hit and Run tango in
New York. Have a great day.
Derik
--- Jennifer Bratt <jennifer@CLOSE-EMBRACE.COM> wrote:
> I was there ... and yes, as luck would have it, I
> had my trusty camera!
>
> photos were just posted here:
>
https://www.close-embrace.com/thegates022705/index.htm
>
> It was a very, very cool place to tango. Thanks to
> Gerald, Joy, and Lucille
> for organizing, and Trey and Guy for music. (And Ko
> and Shi-noh for hot
> wine!) A bunch of people came up to Lucille
> thinking she was Jeanne-Claude;
> must be that gorgeous hair. We eventually wound up
> getting busted by a park
> ranger for playing amplified music sans permit, but
> not before we got a good
> two hours of dancing in. And well, I guess that's
> part of the fun of
> hitting and then running anyhow.
>
> The specatacle of the Gates themselves is
> astounding. They made the bleak
> winter landscape of Central Park come alive, not
> just with vibrant color,
> but with crowds and crowds of people from NYC and
> from all over the world.
> (I met a man in a milonga last week who had made the
> trip from Germany
> solely for the purpose of seeing the Gates.) The
> pathways were crowded with
> all sorts of characters (the least strange of which
> were the tango dancers
> with blue scarves); and everywhere total strangers
> were talking to each
> other about the Gates, the sunny day, whatever.
> Anything that can inspire
> that sort of sense of community and nice feeling
> must be a very, very good
> thing. (Even if it has a $21 million price tag! :)
>
> abrazos,
> Jennifer
