“From Eden” Dance Film: Exploring Creativity & Duality

Tell me about the “From Eden” dance film. What inspired you to create this project? JULIE ASRIYAN: Well, I am an actor but my first introduction to the creative and performing arts was through music and dance. My parents are both musicians and my mom a dancer in her younger years so they passed on their …

How to Function In the Midst of Overstimulation

Imagine yourself standing at the corner of 47th Street and Broadway, the belly of the beast: Times Square. All senses are alert and overwhelmed – dozens of variously sized mega-tron advertisements, bight flashing lights, unorganized traffic with frustrating tourists bumping into you – yet seemingly immobile – smells of burnt peanuts and boiling hotdogs, the …

Freddie Stevenson serenades us!

I first stumbled upon Freddie on a lovely Spring day in Central Park a few years ago. At the time, he was playing with the Dirty Urchins and they were an all-male band back then. No doubt, everyone had their talent and the people that stayed around to watch were proof of this, but it …