Monday, October 08, 2007

Saints of New York

Much I could report on - like the eleven dance companies I saw last week (ten in two evenings of the wonderful Fall for Dance festival at City Center, which brings together five ensembles each evening, in styles ranging from ballet and Bharatanatyam to contemporary tap - I went 9/29 and 10/5) - but instead here's an icon from the Russian Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, located in what used to be a German-speaking Dutch Reformed church in the East Village. (I saw it as part of Open House New York.) These are the three saints of New York: St Alexander Hotovitsky, St Tikhon Patriarch of Moscow, and St Raphael of Brooklyn. (The icon was painted by a 19-year-old student at their resident icon school.) Who knew Brooklyn had its very own orthodox saint?!