Kurt Jooss “made scores of ballets, founded schools and companies, and was instrumental in developing a whole German style, Ausdruckstanz, which is still with us, above all in the work of the late Pina Bausch.”
Month: October 2015
Yelp Reviews Of The Broad Museum Are Comedy Gold
“It is housed next to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in a funky white structure that people either love or hate (me, I’m sipping on the haterade). There’s artwork by Murakami, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein — basically, all of the T-shirt graphics at UNIQLO.”
Broadway Diversified Itself This Fall, But Will That Attract New Audiences?
“Diversity on stage will give people of different backgrounds a reason to explore forms of entertainment new to them. Audiences want to relate to characters that look and sound like them.”
‘The Shining’ Hotel Will Become A Horror Film Museum And Center
“The hotel, which currently offers ‘Ghost Adventure’ packages (including ‘a glow-in-the-dark Stanley Hotel squishy ghost and a REDRUM mug per person’) as well as hosting an annual horror film festival, hopes to become a ‘year-round horror destination,’ according to Variety. Hollywood stars Simon Pegg and Elijah Wood are said to be founding board members of the planned film centre.”
Yes, ‘Back To The Future’ Villain Biff *Was* Based On Donald Trump
Screenwriter: “‘We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding?’ he says. ‘You watch Part II again and there’s a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there’s a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there’s one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.'”
Russian Love Isn’t Love Like It Is In Capitalist Countries
“The individualistic appeal of the Regime of Choice tends to cast the desire for commitment as ‘loving too much’ – that is, loving against one’s own self-interest.”
If You’re Feeling Isolated, Join A Choir (It’s What Our Ancestors Did)
“Newly published research confirms that raising voices together is an effective way to forge feelings of connection and inclusion. Moreover, it finds this effect is particularly robust for singers who are part of a sizable ensemble featuring many unfamiliar faces.”
The Problem Isn’t Blackface In Opera, It’s Opera’s Scarcity Of Black Faces
Anne Midgette moderates a conversation between five rising African-American opera singers – Alyson Cambridge, Soloman Howard, Kenneth Kellogg, Deborah Nansteel, and Russell Thomas – about the issues they face in their careers in 2015. (The makeup in Otello is not one of them.)
The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
“A new documentary film called All Things Must Pass charts the rise and fall of Tower, from its origins in a Sacramento drugstore in 1960, to its glory days of cocaine-fueled rock-and-roll excess (topping $1 billion in sales), to its stunning downfall. It features interviews and reminiscences with the store’s employees – some of whom rose from scruffy clerks to become top brass.”
Britain’s Oldest Science Institution Has To Sell Parts Of Collection To Save Itself
“Ninety works spanning three centuries of scientific inquiry are to go under the hammer at Christie’s in December, in an attempt to plug a £2m hole in the finances of the UK’s most venerable science charity, the Royal Institution. The groundbreaking works in the history of medicine, science and the natural world include first editions from scientific luminaries such as Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Johannes Kepler and Alexander von Humboldt.”