Sculpture

If you look hard enough, you will find many examples of sculpture here in Albuquerque.  This one is very close to my daughter's house.

Today is 'Nothing Like A Dame Day'!
Nothing Like a Dame Day is an annual celebration that upholds the idea that women are incomparable and worth celebrating! And it is especially focused on those women of the theater who have a tendency to make everything a little bit more dramatic. 

The inspiration for Nothing Like a Dame Day may have come from the documentary film made in 2018 by British director Roger Michell. His documentary featured dames like Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright, and it told the story of how theater and films had changed so dramatically over their time in it. The US version of the documentary was called “Tea with the Dames”. 

This celebration of big, brash, smiling-through-the-pain ladies of the theater, gives even those of a straight-laced nature the opportunity to grab a boa, glue on some spidery lashes, and sashay like Carol Channing, Liza Minelli, Barbra Streisand, or Ethel Merman!

In Great Britain, where there is less of a theater tradition of brassy, ballsy dames, Nothing Like Dame Day is more likely to celebrate the tradition of pantomime dame. These men, dressed very unconvincingly as women, are a comical staple of their family shows at Christmas time.