“The Royal’s latest Triple Bill, which features the Stravinsky/Fokine Firebird, Jerome Robbins’s In the Night and Act 3 of the Nureyev Raymonda, is being acclaimed as one of the company’s festive highlights – and not a piece of tinsel in sight. Photographer Tristram Kenton has been watching it come together behind the scenes.”
Month: January 2013
The Agony Of The Feet At New York City Ballet
Photographer Henry Leutwyler “doesn’t shy away from capturing the difficulties, rigor and pain that inform the life of a dancer, but he also offers a poetic glimpse of its beauty, the camaraderie of shared endeavor and the sheer joy of moving through space.”
UK CD Sales Dropped 20 Percent In 2012
“Figures showed CD album sales declined nearly 20% to 69.4m copies, although digital album sales rose by 14.8% to 30.5m.”
A Boom In Places To Store Your Art
“The art boom has led to good times for institutions known as “free ports”: bonded warehouses in which all sorts of commodities, from grain, to gold, to fine art, can be stored, and remain, while they are in storage, exempt from tax and customs duties.”
Grad School For Literature? Don’t Waste Your Time
“The choice to go to graduate school may only offer the illusion of comfort and security–these days it’s an arduous path that only rarely leads to tenure; for the unwary it’s a wild and expensive gamble with no guarantee of security.”
Step Away From The Electronics – You’ll Be More Creative
“New research suggests that stepping away from the shiny Apple product and into the woods can have a big impact on creativity and problem-solving.”
Gustavo Dudamel’s Epic Year
“However much the 31-year-old Venezuelan is now a well-established fixture on the classical music scene, not only hasn’t he slowed down, but Dudamel has just completed what may be the single most audaciously ambitious year ever attempted by a conductor.”
Canadian Stage Pioneer Jean Roberts, 86
“Jean Roberts was a pioneer of Canadian theatre who, although Scottish-born, led key institutions in the 1960s and 1970s to help establish an indigenous dramatic tradition devoted to local playwrights rather than foreign imports.”
How To Get Famous In 2013
It’s two words: viral video.
The Artists Who Died In 2012, A List
“The obituaries of some of the most-celebrated and greatly-missed artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers who died in 2012.”