“Well, shoes are very important to dancers – pointe shoes, ballet slippers, Broadway dance shoes, tap shoes. So it was an opportunity for dance – loads and loads, of all varieties – when Capezio celebrated its 125th anniversary Monday evening with a gala at New York City Center.”
Month: April 2012
Megan Fairchild Shows Us Just How Important Those Pointe Shoes Are
The New York City Ballet principal has made a 5½-minute video about the indispensable footwear, showing how the shoes are made, fitted and used.
Will Self Complains That Intellectually Challenging Art Has Been Marginalized
“I don’t for a moment mean to suggest that no-one produces anymore cultural artefacts that are ‘difficult’ in this sense – of course they do – it’s just that these works are no longer regarded as the desiderata that any well-cultivated person aspires to an appreciation of. Rather, ‘difficult’ works are parcelled off, and the great plurality and ubiquity of our media means that their specialist audience can be readily catered to.”
Two Cuban Actors Defect After Flight To Florida
“Six days later, the whereabouts of Javier Núñez Florián and AnailÃn de la Rúa de la Torre remain unknown. They missed the film’s opening on Thursday night, and the Spanish-language press in Miami, sensing another opportunity to score points at the expense of the dictatorship that has ruled Cuba for more than 50 years, is now crowing that the pair, imitating the characters they played, have defected.”
Actors Storm Stage At Stratford-Upon-Avon To Protest BP Sponsorship
“The actors performed a short piece to challenge the Royal Shakespeare Company’s decision to accept sponsorship from BP after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The group then asked the audience to tear the BP logo from their programmes.”
Exploring Inside The Brain
“What’s happening in brain science at the moment is as exciting as the discoveries that are being made about the cosmos. Inner space and outer space. Maybe consciousness is a new kind of force, in the way electricity or magnetism is. It might be that, as we explore the brain, we come to an understanding of consciousness as being a separate property.”
How The Cuban Music Industry Is Different
“In Cuba, many of the groups are on salary, which really creates a new dynamic. First, in a capitalist society, groups rise and fall based on their popularity and their money making capacity, where in Cuba, this is very different. Some of the groups are sustained because they’re on salary, they survive maybe even when they’re not so popular but they’re still going… because these are traditions that are preserved.”
Survey: Consumers Love 3D Movies
52 percent of those surveyed saw at least one 3D pic in the last three years. Of those, 71 percent said the experience surpassed that of watching 2D films, while 31 percent found the experience “incredible.”
Jimmy Wales: Hollywood Is Doomed
“Hollywood will be destroyed and no one will notice,” Wales said. But it won’t be Wikipedia (or Encarta) that kills the moviemaking industry: “Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica,” he said.
How “The Hobbit” Could Change How You See Movies (Twice As Many Images)
“Frame rates are the number of images displayed by a projector within one second. Twenty-four frames per second (fps) has long been the standard in cinema, but industry leaders James Cameron and Peter Jackson are among those who propose high frame rates such as 48 or 60, reducing or eliminating jutter and other motion artifacts.”