Alan English, executive editor of the Shreveport Times, finds signs of health in the regional arts scene. See his column in the Times Sunday, Feb. 13.
Happily, he mentions this site, shreveport.blogspot.com. English says of my art & culture chronicle, "It serves to celebrate and share the "goings-on" in the arts community through the omnipresent Internet. It is a digital signpost toward our arts adulthood. Check it out."
The artistic work of photographer Mike Silva - Times photo editor - as well as the arts reportage of Jennifer Flowers - particularly on the Strand and the Les Miserables production - are used as examples. He also points to SRAC's ArtBreak student art fest as a sign of health.
Yet I believe he was trying to say, "My predecessor as Times editor, Gannett's insensitive Ronnie Ramos, tried to curtail arts reportage. That was a mistake." English has taken the opposite road: he has decreed a level of arts covereage unprecedented in recent regional history.
Now let's see if we can sell a little of this well-covered art.
Above: the stage at Arodasi Dance Center. Paintings on the wall and sculpture on the floor by Dorothinia Kristi Hanna, founder of the Arodasi, formerly called the Harmony Healing Center.
"Dancing down the bones," a movement workshop featuring international-level somatic guru Sondra Fraleigh, will take place at Arodasi Dance Center March 14 - 18. More info: Peggy LaCour, program coordinator, 518-6282, or pldragondance@aol.com
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