In case you missed it, this New York Times Sun­day Mag­a­zine sto­ry offers a great exam­ple of How We Live/­Dance/­Film/­Self-Finance these days.

What we have here is a sev­en minute col­lab­o­ra­tion between direc­tor Jacob Krup­nick and clas­si­cal­ly-trained bal­let refugee Anne Marsen. Shot gueril­la-style on the Stat­en Island Fer­ry, the video fea­tures Marsen’s gid­dy pas­tiche of hip hop, bal­let, mod­ern and jazz dance. The sound­track is also a pas­tiche of sorts, an excerpt from mashup DJ Girl Talk’s new album, “All Day.”

Grup­nick post­ed the clip above as a teas­er on the crowd­fund­ing site Kick­starter in Jan­u­ary, hop­ing to raise enough mon­ey to make it into a full-length dance film. He met his fundrais­ing goal with­in 6 days, and the team starts shoot­ing in April.

A note: It takes about two min­utes for the action to real­ly kick in, and if you’re lis­ten­ing to it from an office, be sure to turn the vol­ume down first.

Sheer­ly Avni is a San Fran­cis­co-based arts and cul­ture writer. Her work has appeared in Salon, LA Week­ly, Vari­ety, Moth­er Jones, and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. You can fol­low her on twit­ter at @sheerly.

Nigel Tufnel, lead gui­tarist for Spinal Tap (wink, wink) sets the stage for you. This after­noon (March 3), Berklee Music will hold what it hopes will be the largest online gui­tar les­son ever. It all starts at 1:30 EST. Get details and join in here.

Some­how this flew below my radar. Back in Novem­ber, James Wood, the Har­vard lit pro­fes­sor and New York­er staff writer, revis­it­ed his child­hood idol — Kei­th Moon, the long­time (though now depart­ed) drum­mer for The Who. In “The New York­er Out Loud” pod­cast, Wood demon­strates – using his fin­gers – what makes Moon’s style so dis­tinc­tive. (Lis­ten here.) And, as an added bonus, we give you Wood fin­ger drum­ming on his kitchen table at home. At least one of these clips will make your day…

Worth a quick men­tion: The New York Times ran a sto­ry yes­ter­day pro­fil­ing the Inter­na­tion­al Music Score Library Project, a crowd­sourced web site that index­es clas­si­cal music scores (though not with­out rais­ing some copy­right con­cerns along the way). IMSL hosts 85,000 scores with sev­er­al thou­sand new ones com­ing online every month. You can find Bach’s Bran­den­burg Con­cer­tos, Mozart’s Eine kleine Nacht­musik, Beethoven’s Sym­pho­ny No. 5 – in short, the major ones along with the minor ones. And, in some cas­es, the archive includes audio record­ings. Tchaikovsky’s Nut­crack­er offers an exam­ple. You can find a full list of free audio record­ings (arranged by com­pos­er) here.

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