Catskill Mountain Region AUGUST 2017 COMPLIMENTARY GUIDEwww.catskillregionguide.com DANCE ICON TWYLA THARP RETURNS TO TANNERSVILLE THIS SEPTEMBER August 2017 • GUIDE 1 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 32, NUMBER 8 August 2017 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Rita Adami, Barbara Cobb Steve Friedman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Nanci Panuccio, Rick Remsnyder, Heather Rolland, Lyndon Taylor & Jeff Senterman ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee Justin McGowan Isabel Cunha PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing Services On the cover: © Twyla Tharp. Photo by Jesse Huot. For more information about the residency at the Catskill Mountain DISTRIBUTION Foundation, please see the article on page 6. Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: August 10 4 THE ARTS The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 924, Hunter, NY 12442. If you have events or programs that you 6 DANCE LEGEND TWYLA THARP would like to have covered, please send them by e-mail to tafts@ catskillmtn.org. Please be sure to furnish a contact name and in- RETURNS TO THE CATSKILLS clude your address, telephone, fax, and e-mail information on all By Nanci Panuccio, with contributions by Lyndon Taylor correspondence. For editorial and photo submission guidelines send a request via e-mail to [email protected]. The liability of the publisher for any error for which it may be 8 THE GREAT CATSKILL MOUNTAIN BBQ FEST: held legally responsible will not exceed the cost of space ordered or occupied by the error. The publisher assumes no liability for Fleischmanns, NY Saturday, August 26th errors in key numbers. The publisher will not, in any event, be liable for loss of income or profits or any consequent damages. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide office is located in Hunter Village Square in the Village of Hunter on Route 23A. 10 ULSTER COUNTY GOLF COURSES The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org By Rick Remsnyder by clicking on the “Guide Magazine” button, or by going directly to www.catskillregionguide.com 7,000 copies of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide are distributed each month. It is distributed free of charge at the 12 LUCKY DOG FARM, STORE AND CAFE Plattekill, Sloatsburg and New Baltimore rest stops on the New York State Thruway, and at the tourist information offices, restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout 14 FULLY STAGED AMERICAN PRODUCTION OF Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an DVORAK’S DIMITRIJ OPENS AT BARD SUMMERSCAPE additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. Plus Semi-Staging of Moniuszko’s Halka ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without in Bard Music Festival written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- graphic rights reside with the photographer. 16 THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION By Jeff Senterman 20 SMALL SERVINGS: A SAMPLE OF SHORT(ISH) CATSKILL HIKES 7971 MAIN STREET, P.O. BOX 924 By Heather Rolland HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 • FAX: 518 263 2025 WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG 25 AUGUST AT THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION August 2017 • GUIDE 3 THE ARTS Prizewinners from the 2016 Art Show. Left: “Italy #21” by Carol Slutzky-Tenerowicz. Right: “Cliff Path” by Claire Haik Twilight Park Artists Hold 70th Annual Art Exhibition: August 12 and 13, 2017 On August 12 and 13 the 70th exhibition sponsored by Twilight Park Artists at the Twilight Park Clubhouse in Haines Falls, NY opens with a reception from 5 to 7 pm. A children’s art show for young artists ages 14 and under is part of this exhibit. The show is also open to the public on Sunday from 1 to 4:30 pm. On Sunday, Twilight Park resident Gracia Dayton will lead a watercolor demonstration at 3:00 pm. Gracia has been painting on the mountaintop for over 50 years, and is an award-winning watercolorist. She will use water- color to demonstrate her bold use of color when approaching landscape painting. Carl Von Brunt, digital artist and Gallery Director of the Woodstock Art Association and Museum and Kurt Van Dexter, visual artist, high school art teacher and landscape designer from Rhode Island are the prize judges of this year’s show. The 70th Twilight Art Show is sponsored by Twilight Park artists and residents of Twilight Park, a community established “on the mountain top” in Haines Falls, NY in 1888. 4 • www.catskillregionguide.com August 2017 • GUIDE 5 DANCE LEGEND TWYLA THARP Returns to the Catskill Mountains By Nanci Panuccio, with contributions by Lyndon Taylor Rose Marie Wright, Twyla Tharp and Sara Rudner in The Fugue at the Roundhouse in London, 1974. © Tony Russell “The more you know, the better you can imagine.” —Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit wyla Tharp, dance icon and one of America’s greatest chore- tion, reconstructing two earlier works, COUNTRY DANCES T ographers will take up residency along with her ensemble of from 1976 and BRAHMS PAGANINI from 1980, a new work dancers at the Catskill Mountain Foundation beginning August 14. set to Beethoven’s Opus 130 and 133, and a work-in-progress The residency culminates in a performance Saturday, which featured photographs used as backdrops to the dancing September 9 at 7:30 pm at the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s taken by Twyla Tharp of the studio, the dancers and the area. Orpheum Film and Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, At the performance, the audience was delighted and moved by Tannersville, NY. Twyla’s “valentine” to the Catskills. Ms. Tharp will restage three works: THE RAGGEDY From Broadway to Ballet, from Hollywood movies to DANCES (1972), a playful exploration of a single theme set to television, and so much more, Twyla Tharp has had an indelible ragtime and Mozart variations, popularly known as “Twinkle, influence on the world of dance. Since graduating from Barnard Twinkle Little Star;” THE FUGUE, modeled on “The Musi- College in 1963, Ms. Tharp has choreographed more than one cal Offering” by Johann Sebastian Bach; and DYLAN LOVE hundred sixty works for her company as well as for the Joffrey Bal- SONGS, a quintet set to music by Bob Dylan. The piece was let, the New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, London’s Royal made right after Ms. Tharp’s Broadway show COME FLY AWAY Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She’s won two Emmy Awards (2010). The September 9 performance will also showcase a work- for television’s Baryshnikov by Tharp, and a Tony Award for the in-progress created during the residency. Broadway musical Movin’ Out, featuring the songs of Billy Joel. The dance icon and her company return to the Catskills after A prolific force of nature, she’s also written three books, their visit last spring, where they spent six weeks at the Founda- including her autobiography, Push Comes to Shove, and The Cre- 6 • www.catskillregionguide.com ative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, which takes us under the hood of her artistic genius. She is currently at work on her fourth book. Twyla helped define late 20th century and early 21st century dance. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Twyla Tharp was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1993 and was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. She is winner of the 2004 National Medal of the Arts, the 2008 Jerome Robbins Prize, and a 2008 Kennedy Center Honor. Twyla Tharp is a champion for the arts, believing it fortifies us in ways that reach far beyond the stage. She says, “Creativity is not just for artists. It’s for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it’s for engineers trying to solve a problem; it’s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.” Tickets to Twyla Tharp’s showcase of earlier and new works at the Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville, are $25 adults; $20 seniors; $7 students if purchased in advance. This performance is likely to sell out and advance ticket purchases are highly encouraged. Tickets are available at www.catskillmtn.org or by calling 518 263 2063. At right: Twyla Tharp performs at the Delacorte Theater in 1971. ©Milton Oleaga Below: Matthew Dibble on stage at the Orpheum during the Twyla Tharp Dance residency in 2016. Photo by Twyla Tharp. August 2017 • GUIDE 7 The Great Catskill Mountain BBQ FEST Fleischmanns, NY Saturday, August 26th PRO - 2016 GRAND CHAMPION - “Dr. Pearl’s Medicinal Smoke BBQ”. All photos provided by the Great Catskill Mountain BBQ Fest t is not entirely clear where barbecue or its name originated. Catskills, BBQ, whether prepared in the backyard or purchased IOne theory is that the Spanish used the word barbacoa to at any number of BBQ restaurants, is very popular and always a describe the method of slow-cooking meat over a wooden plat- favorite summertime event. form that they saw the natives use in the Caribbean. By the 19th The Great Catskill Mountain BBQ Fest is a sanctioned century, the cooking method was well established in the American Kansas City Barbecue Society Professional BBQ competition. South and, as pigs were prevalent in the region, pork was the pri- Barbecuers from throughout the region and beyond are expected mary meat used for barbecuing.