“Annie Hanauer, 30, has achieved what many thought impossible for a performer with a disability: a thriving career in the mainstream dance world. After performing with the UK’s Candoco Dance Company from 2008 to 2014, she is now an in-demand freelancer.” (includes video)
Author: Matthew Westphal
Pop Artist Marisol Leaves Entire Estate To Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The bequest from the artist, who died last May, is the largest gift of art in the history of the Buffalo museum, which made news last fall by raising $100 million in 12 weeks.
Robert M. Pirsig, 88, Author Of ‘Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance’
“Where [Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan] pursued enlightenment in hallucinogenic experience, Zen argued for its equal availability in the brain-racking rigors of Reason with a capital R. Years after its publication, it continues to be invoked by famous people when asked to name a book that affected them most deeply.”
L.A. Dance Project Gets Its Own Headquarters
Benjamin Millepied’s young company “has signed a five-year lease for its own rehearsal and performance space in the downtown Los Angeles arts district, and will move to its new headquarters in October. [Its space will] include two studios and a performance space with a seating capacity of about 300.
Arachnid Art: Argentine Artist And 7,000 Spiders Create World’s Largest Web
Tomás Saraceno and his eight-legged collaborators are displaying their installation, titled Quasi-Social Musical Instrument IC 342, at Buenos Aires’s Museum of Modern Art.
Actors Making Fun Of The Powerful And Their Politics In Ancient Rome
Of course, the dangers were rather greater than they are for the cast of Saturday Night Live, or even Bassem Youssef, and more immediate than even for the Belarus Free Theatre.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.25.17
Combining Cultures
This year, Ballet Hispanico will celebrate its 47th anniversary. I know, I know. In the performing-arts world, we only go all out for a year that ends in zero or five. But what’s immodest about a company being proud of its achievements in other years? … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-04-25
“Moral Obligation”: My Chat with Cleveland Museum of Art’s William Griswold (plus Benjamin & Rub)
William Griswold has no interest in leaving the directorship of the Cleveland Museum for Art any time soon – not even for the top spot at the beleaguered Metropolitan Museum (for which I had presumptuously nominated him). … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-04-25
Ella Fitzgerald At 100
It is impossible to find the perfect performance by which to remember Ella, … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-04-25
$24M Project To Save Britain’s Oldest Sound Recordings
“The British Library has launched a preservation and access project which will save almost half a million rare and unique recordings which are threatened by physical degradation or stored on formats which can no longer be played. … Recordings include oral histories from WWI and WWII, Cornish brass bands, local dialect from the UK regions, drama and literature readings, regional radio, traditional music, pirate radio recordings, music from around the world and the sounds of rare and extinct species.”
When Dan Savage Meets Wagner: The Problematic Sexual Politics Of ‘The Flying Dutchman’
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim looks at the still-common dynamic that the opera explores via myth: as Savage puts it, “It’s a common delusion, particularly among women, that their love is transformative. That they can find their damaged man and, by loving him, they can save him, restore him, fix him, make him a better person.”
My Dinner With Georgia O’Keeffe, When Her Eyebrow Burned Off
“I saw O’Keeffe rise unsteadily to one knee, and then to her feet. She looked shaken. ‘Well,’ she said, with a thin smile, ‘It seems we’re not having chicken.'” Calvin Tomkins remembers a visit to the artist at her summer home in New Mexico, the Ghost Ranch, in 1973.