Joanne Edelmann
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Movement Teacher and Writer |
| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Joanne Edelmann writes articles about living, single parenting, and dating (as an over fifty-year-old) in the East Village of New York City. She was a modern dancer for over twenty-five years, touring and teaching extensively in the United States. She currently teaches and directs in an Acting Conservatory in Manhattan. Her recent writing projects; a novel based on the wisdom and joy of allowing the love of your life slip away and a series of articles about being a Squatter on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Some of these stories appear in, RESISTANCE; A RADICAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE, Clayton Patterson, Editor. |
| Interests | Reading, Writing. Going to the Theatre, Concerts, Museums, Parties, Mojitos, Meeting new people. |
| Favorite Movies | TALK TO HER, BABETTE'S FEAST, THE LOVER, TWO FOR THE ROAD, CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, AMALIE, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, ANNIE HALL |
| Favorite Music | All music |
| Favorite Books | All the classics, everything by Philip Roth, everything by Anita Brookner, SATURDAY and others by Ian McEwan, READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN by Azar Nafisi, INTERPRETER OF THE MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri, BEL CANTO by Ann Patchett, THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini, A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemmingway, THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin, THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A SEPARATE PEACE by John Knowles, SUMMER by Edith Wharton, LECTURES ON DUENDE by Federico Garcia Lorca, (Poets-PABLO NERUDA, RANIER MARIA RILKE, JAMES LEVINE, EDEARD HIRSCH, OCTAVIO PAZ, GERALD STERN, SHARON OLDS and many others. |
The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?
I will lift in my pelvis and plant my feet securely on the earth. Hopefully.