December 13 • 1995
Vermont Dancer Patty Smith Looks Back on Her Life in New SOlo Show; The Strong Will of Elihu Taft; Good News From the Blooz; Fruitcake Can Be Fun;
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It Takes One to Tango: Vermont Dancer Patty Smith looks back on her life in a new solo show about moving and memory
Vermont is not exactly the dance capital of the world. But Patty Smith has never let location get in the way of her art. Her rural recitals suggest the same visionary obsession that makes Bread and Puppet a reality every summer. With equal parts talent and persistence, Smith transforms dairy-farmer daughters into winged sylphs and…
Backtalk: Arts Funding Cuts, Spencer Tunick Exposes Burlington, Burlington From Above
CREATIVE CUTS: There’s always a bit of drama at meetings of the Vermont Council on the Arts — its creative constituency is not the ruliest bunch. But whiners stayed away in droves from a special forum focused on federal budget cuts last Thursday in Burlington. Seems like everyone else was there, though. Come summer, Vermont…
