“There was this hype of me coming, and this attention of people watching, and expectation. And sometimes I struggle with the thought that I am really not good enough to be in this position. … And it even boils down to these simple steps that I have been doing my whole career. I am doing them so differently now and I am questioning them so differently. … Sometimes I even question: Am I losing who I am? Am I losing what made me as a dancer?”
Month: April 2012
The Welshman Who’s Helping Jump-Start Indonesian Cinema
“Since he moved to Jakarta four years ago, [Gareth] Evans, a softly-spoken scion of the Brecon Beacons, has resurrected the Indo martial-arts film. His latest, a careening piece of John Woo-esque ultraviolence called The Raid, is winning the country some overdue global exposure.”
Philadelphia Orchestra To Begin China Residency Next Month
“The orchestra’s May 28-June 6 residency and tour of China, details of which were to be announced Wednesday in Beijing and Philadelphia, was hatched in a matter of months – five full orchestral concerts in four cities, master classes, chamber concerts, many other ancillary events, plus plans stretching five years into the future.”
Why Soprano Karita Mattila Is Such A Good Actress
On Uta Hagen: “She is my big idol and hero, and she writes things in those books that everybody should read, especially young singers.”
Sissy Spacek Is Too Sane To Be An Actress At All
On taking classes at the Actors’ Studio: “The irony is that I only studied there several months. I never got into scene class. I remember looking around saying, ‘I’m much too well-adjusted to be doing this’.”
Study: Kids Who Study Music Are More Empathetic
“In a year-long program focused on group music-making, 8- to 11-year old children became markedly more compassionate, according to a just-published study from the University of Cambridge. The finding suggests kids who make music together aren’t just having fun: they’re absorbing a key component of emotional intelligence.”
Rome’s Zaha Hadid-Designed Maxxi Museum Could Close
The administrators of the museum said last year’s losses were in part due to a 43% cut in government funding and had, in any case, been covered by profits carried over from the previous year. They expressed “surprise and concern” at the minister’s decision which “damaged the international credibility” of the museum.
If The Internet Is Killing Retail Stores, How Should We Rethink Downtowns?
“We’re shopping on the internet. Recession is killing the big chains. So what should we do with the streets that were once the heart of our communities?”
The Death Of Newspaper Sports Cartooning
“They blended the skills of a caricaturist and the mind-set of a columnist. They were entertainers and ink-stained jokesters. They were newsroom denizens and deadline artists who churned out five or six cartoons a week that received prominent display. If they possessed power, it was that they drew players, owners and managers in ways that reporters could not with their words.”
The Rise Of TV-Like Programming On YouTube
“With regular weekly shows and viewer-friendly playlists, they are indeed slightly more televisionlike than the millions of mostly homemade videos that surround them. But the harder they try to resemble television, the less interesting they are.”