Email Author Nirmala Nataraj

2006 Stories by Nirmala Nataraj

• The Reel Africa

  published February 16, 2006

  Even foreign film aficionados might not be able to reel off a list of classic African cinema or tell you why artists such as Senegalese filmmaker... More >>

• Cat Power

  published February 2, 2006

  Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, is indie rock’s homespun gadfly — a mopey bundle of disconsolate lullabies whose uneven live performanc... More >>

• Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy | Richard Cheese

  published January 26, 2006

  Cover albums are generally the province of self-indulgence and creative ennui, wherein the revisionists attempt to relive a childhood fantasy or... More >>

• Dance Dance Extravaganza

  published January 26, 2006

  Big ideas about the human condition are constantly finding a resting place in the gravity defying kinetics of the body -- but for every piece... More >>

• The Gospel According to McKeever

  published January 19, 2006

  Michael McKeever is a raconteur of small miracles, dispelling the myth you can't create a self-contained, highly nuanced world of performance in... More >>

• Dancing Around the Issues

  published January 19, 2006

  Miami choreographer Brigid Baker has been producing elegant interrogations into the dream life of America past and present for years.... More >>

• Such Pushy Ballerinas

  published January 12, 2006

  Dance elitists and simple lovers of fancy footwork will be pleased with the pieces that made it to Miami City Ballet’s Program II.... More >>

• Mime Your Own Business

  published January 5, 2006

  Florida Brits might not be your regular tea-and-crumpet Anglophiles, but they still celebrate Boxing Day and think pantomimes are a gas. The Gold... More >>