Christian Matijas-Mecca: “I train my students to know the ins and outs of dance classes of varying styles. In return, we sometimes wish our collaborative partners understood more about what we bring to the studio.” For instance, “Don’t use the piano as an ad hoc desk. I teach my students appropriate studio etiquette. They will not wear shoes in your studio, talk while you are teaching or leave their belongings lying about. Show them the same courtesy.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
A Kind Of Language Linguists Thought Would Be Impossible (And You’d Agree), But It Exists
“One core property of human languages is known as duality of patterning: meaningful linguistic units (such as words) break down into smaller meaningless units (sounds), so that the words sap, pass, and asp involve different combinations of the same sounds, even though their meanings are completely unrelated. …Try inventing a lexicon of tens of thousands of distinct noises, all of which are easily distinguished, and you will probably find yourself wishing you could simply re-use a few snippets of sound in varying arrangements.” But there’s a language that does manage without duality of patterning: it developed on its own, relatively recently, in the Negev Desert.
Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt On Poverty, Misery, And The Great Revolutions Of History
“This manuscript, never before published, is marked ‘A Lecture’ and dated ‘1966-67.’ Where and when it was delivered, or if it was delivered, is not known. The manuscript seems too long for a single lecture. … The where and when of the lecture have not been confirmed, though extant records have been thoroughly searched.”
What Is A Gaffer And Why Is That Boy “Best”? A Guide To All The Credits At The End Of A Movie
“Have you ever sat through the end credits waiting for the post-credit teaser and wondered what exactly do all those people do? We’ll break down the positions in that sea of credits and explain who’s who on a major film production.” (video)
Vimeo Gives Up On The Subscription Video Idea
“The video streamer, which is owned by Barry Diller’s IAC, announced last November that it planned to spend “tens of millions” to build out a competitor of Netflix, Hulu and the newly launched YouTube Red. … The company already has a subscription business in which it sells professional tools to its more than 750,000 creators” – and it will refocus on that business instead, according to the announcement.
Can You Make An Opera Out Of The MOVE Bombing? Bill T. Jones And Friends Are Giving It A Try
In 1985, Philadelphia police attempting to evict and arrest members of the militant activist group MOVE dropped a bomb on the group’s headquarters, causing a fire that burned down an entire city block. Jones, composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are creating a new work about the disaster and its aftermath for Opera Philadelphia’s inaugural O festival this September. David Patrick Stearns talks to Jones and Joseph about how the piece is coming together.
What Happens When You Bring Street Dance Onto The Stage?
Dance Magazine asked Rennie Harris and two of his students, Nicole Klaymoon and d. Sabela grimes, “Over the years, how has increased acceptance and visibility on concert-dance stages affected hip hop and its artists? And how has hip hop influenced concert dance?” Here’s the conversation the three gave in response.
Dallas Museum Of Art’s Mexican Modernism Show Is Having Huge Success In Latino Audience Engagement
“There was skepticism when Dallas Museum of Art director Agustín Arteaga proposed bringing a major exhibit of Mexican masterpieces here from Paris and allowing families who were not regular museum visitors to see it for free.” But the show has been a big hit, and more than half of its visitors, many of them Latino, are newcomers to the DMA. Says docent José Villanueva, “I haven’t seen this many brown people in the museum before.”
Chicago To Spend $1 Million For Public Art For Each Of City’s 50 Wards
The plan is part of the “Year of Public Art” initiative declared by Mayor Rahm Emanuel for 2017.
Martha Argerich Is Canceling Concerts Due To ‘Serious Health Issues’
Just what those issues are hasn’t been stated, but that’s the phrase used in the announcement that the 76-year-old pianist won’t be making a scheduled appearance in Athens next month. Last week she cancelled what was to have been her Australian debut, saying in a statement, “I am unable to travel and play in this moment, feel very weak, exhausted and having physical pains that worry me.”