Incoming executive director Vanessa Logan’s goals include “joining the national touring circuit and expanding the group’s presence in Dallas … [as well as making TBT] a tier-one ballet company within the next 10 years. For that, the organization will have to reach an annual budget of at least $14 million.”
Month: July 2016
The Big Plans For Cambodia’s Floating Arts Center
“The arts are an integral part of the fabric of [Phnom Penh], but, most days, art isn’t a major priority for those scraping by in one of the world’s poorest countries. That’s just one reason why The Boat is so important.”
We Need To Think About Anger – And Philosophy Can (Really!) Help Us Do It
Martha Nussbaum looks at two of anger’s main drivers, loss of status and the desire for payback, and looks to Aristotle and Nelson Mandela for examples of how to deal with them.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.27.16
Recent Listening In Brief: Zeitlin On Shorter
Denny Zeitlin, Solo Piano: Early Wayne (Sunnyside) Over the years, Zeitlin has made clear his affinity for Wayne Shorter’s compositions. In previous Sunnyside albums he explored … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-07-27
Community within
As a community artist, I operate with the philosophy that creativity is a pledge to embrace and value one’s own existence and self-reflection is a process for changing awareness and behavior. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-27
A misshapen Venn Diagram
Erin Salazar, is an artist, muralist, seamstress, public art curator and Creative Community Fellow. She shares what community means to her in this time lapse video: … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-27
Actively making a place better
I’d like to share these images of what Community means to me. These images were taken recently outside the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York. The Reformed Protestant congregation hung 49 rainbow flags along … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-27
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US Tourist Mistakenly Locked On Roof Of Milan Cathedral Overnight
“Police said the 23-year-old man told them that he was in the bathroom when security made a final pass, and found himself locked inside the landmark cathedral when he went to leave on Monday night. He decided not to create alarm and spent the night on the spired rooftop, reporting himself to authorities when they reopened on Tuesday.”
Designs For New Cultural Quarter For London
“New images have been released of the planned cultural quarter in London’s Olympic Park that will house a 550-seat dance theatre for Sadler’s Wells. The Stratford Waterfront area, previously known as Olympicopolis, will also contain new dance studios run by Wayne McGregor Random Dance, a new campus for University of the Arts London and a second, east London venue for the Victoria and Albert museum.”
Power Of Positive Thinking? Researchers Say Maybe Not So Much
“Indulging in undirected positive flights of fancy isn’t always in our interest. Positive thinking can make us feel better in the short term, but over the long term it saps our motivation, preventing us from achieving our wishes and goals, and leaving us feeling frustrated, stymied and stuck.”
Baker’s Dozen: Man Booker Prize Announces 2016 Longlist
“In the third year that the prestigious British literary award has been open to any author writing in English, the U.S. nabbed five entries on the long list.”
What Silence Does For Us
“We like silence for what it doesn’t do—it doesn’t wake, annoy, or kill us—but what does it do? When Florence Nightingale attacked noise as a “cruel absence of care,” she also insisted on the converse: Quiet is a part of care, as essential for patients as medication or sanitation. It’s a strange notion, but one that researchers have begun to bear out as true.”
How To Procrastinate Better (A Productivity Expert’s Tips)
“Q: If you’re going to procrastinate, are there better and worse ways to do it?”
Charles Duhigg: “There is no magic formula that applies to all people. What we do know is that often people are fairly bad at picking up on what is refreshing and rejuvenating, and so they tend to misevaluate what they should do as a break.”