Poets, writers, painters, dancers, dreamers, philosophers — and lovers of same.
Located close to where the Beverly Center stands today, the Health Hut, according to its menu, was meant for "firewalkers, fan dancers, phrenologists, philosophers, soothsayers, saints, space people, phony wrestlers, oppressed quiz show contestants, alchemists, bongo and balalaika virtuosos, Venusians, and utopians".
We tend to venerate libraries once we know whose they are, like admiring a famous philosopher's eyes or a ballet dancer's foot.
This, says Zoe Lukov, director of exhibitions, is "a one-night-only solo performance across all disciplines, so cultural practitioners at the top of their field – philosophers, scientists, dancers, singers – do something new and entirely different that they may not have tried before".
In his book "Le Danseur des Solitudes," the French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman focuses on the experimental flamenco dancer Israel Galván to explore the isolation of a solo.
Then I discovered that not only was he a better philosopher than me; he was a better singer, a better dancer, a better tennis player, a better pianist.
The body "pulls all the life up into the face of the philosopher and sends it all down into the legs of the dancer," She continued.
Described by the BBC as "a philosopher to rival Descartes, a musician to rival Texas and a dancer to rival MC Hammer", Brent became an iconic character after just two series of the hit show.
During this time he also enjoyed life to the full; he was a good dancer, once confessing that he would have preferred to be a tap-dancer rather than a professional philosopher, but had given up on the idea when he recognized that he would never be as good as Fred Astaire.
Like the Greek profile poses in which dancers periodically pause, this is dance in classical two-dimension – an abstract of the rationality avowed by the philosopher it celebrates.
