Saluting our planet
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- April
- 21
Tomorrow is Earth Day, and PBS is framing the occasion with an imaginative new “Great Performances” and the return of an acclaimed series.
Tonight at 10 on WNET-Channel 13 locally, it’s “Dance in America: Wolf Trap’s Face of America,” an unusual, enervating pairing of dance and nature that actually evokes the origins of the art form.
Dance often looks flat on TV. But the cinematography for these modern works — which seem to grow organically out of our national parks — is nothing short of spectacular. More important, the program reasserts the primal essence of dance, which began with man’s connection to the Earth. “Wolf Trap’s America” will leave you uplifted.
At 9 p.m. Wednesday, “National Geographic’s Strange Days on Planet Earth” returns with two new chapters on the ecological imbalances caused by overfishing and coastal development. Actor/activist Edward Norton — who goes green in another way later this spring with “The Incredible Hulk” — is once again the host.
Norton is a favorite of mine. I think I’d be happy to watch him read the phone book, as they say. But you don’t need the excuse of an actor of his intensity and intelligence to experience “Strange Days.” It’s plenty compelling in its own right.
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