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Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu
HIRSHHORN’S ‘SUSPENDED ANIMATION’ Hirshhorn Museum | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL REALITY REDEFINED: At the Hirshhorn’s “Suspended Animation” preview party guests were encouraged to consider the “digitization of [human] identity.” The exhibit, which runs through March 2017, features work from six artists who joined forces to unlock an alternate reality that explores the evolving relationship between mankind and technology. “The point of the animated image is not simply to mirror reality as faithfully as possible,” curator Gianni Jetzer pointed out, because “the animated image has evolved into another kind of reality, to be entered into imaginatively at will. It now competes with reality on equal footing.”
Lisa Brown, Jessica Powell, Eliza Ryan, Susan Hubbard Ryan and David Levy
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Geoffrey Smith and Michael Pillsbury
Dancers Venus Villa, Corey Landolt, Samuel Wilson and Ashley Murphy with Christine Reed
CELEBRATING ‘CARMINA BURANA’
Susan Pillsbury and Septime Webre
Susan and Michael Pillsbury Residence | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL
Kimbell Duncan, Yury and Elena Melnik and Michelle Kosinski
Bob Heggestad and Candy Gerstein
EYES WIDE OPEN: The audience was roaring and on its feet after the Washington Ballet’s long awaited revival of “Carmina Burana” at the Kennedy Center. An orchestral performance of composer Carl Orff’s haunting songs about “love, lust, drinking, fate and the cycle of life,” masterfully mixed with Septime Webre’s choreography, exquisite dancing and 75 be-robed singers from the Cathedral Choral Society, proved to be one of the spring performing arts season’s most spectacular events. Production underwriters Susan and Michael Pillsbury continued the celebration at their spectacular Asian art-filled Georgetown residence with live music under a special garden marquee, sumptuous dinner and dessert buffets, fine wines and yes, even a few quiet corners to ponder the cycle of life. VIEW ALL THE PHOTOS AT WWW WASHINGTONLIFE COM
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