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Dance Magazine Awards 2016: Peck, Lubovitch, Adams, Garafola

“This year we celebrate four extraordinary dance heroes: New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck, choreographer Lar Lubovitch, activist/teacher Carolyn Adams and historian Lynn Garafola.”

In The Age Of Trigger Warnings And Microaggressions, Are Campuses Still Safe Spaces For Studying – And Experimenting In – The Arts?

“Unlike Jerry Seinfeld and his jokes, college art instructors cannot just take their lesson plans to some local concert hall. In an environment set up to encourage experimentation and free expression, is parody or a critical stance allowable and, if so, which targets are O.K.?”

Does Railing Against Racism Make Racists More Racist?

“The idea is that the desire to counter racism might itself end up fomenting prejudice. Based on what we know about the human mind and the psychology of bias, should this ‘backlash’ explanation of the Trump Effect” – the marked rise in incidents of harassment and even assault since the election – “carry any weight?” Daniel Engber looks at the research.

Broadway Collects Data On Just About Everything, But Not On The Race Of Its Performers – So This Group Did Just That

Frustrated, like so many others, by lack of opportunity, the Asian American Performers Action Coalition decided to get the real stats on Broadway diversity. The results probably won’t surprise you.

Cheers For The New Head Of Yale’s Playwriting Program

What’s more, he’s the author of the play that became the Oscar contender Moonlight – Tarell Alvin McCraney, who himself graduated from Yale’s program just a decade ago.

Helen Marten Wins 2016 Turner Prize

Just two weeks after the sculptor won the first-ever Hepworth Prize, she’s won Britain’s most famous art honor. And, as with her Hepworth, Marten says she’ll share the Turner money.

Village Voice Names Third Editor-In-Chief In A Year

Stephen Mooallem, formerly of Harper’s Bazaar and Interview, “said he wanted to improve the paper’s digital side, re-establish its cultural coverage and investigative reporting, and embrace the paper’s inherent ‘New Yorkiness.'”

In Last-Minute Turnaround, Toronto Symphony Sees $4 Million+ Deficit Become $831K Surplus

What’s more, $5 million in debt has been paid down. “It’s an impressive result, considering the financial wake that former President and CEO Jeff Melanson left when he abruptly resigned last March.”

What’s Behind The Staff Rebellion At Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater? The Prop Shop

“Since the Belgian ex-director of London’s Tate Modern, Chris Dercon, was announced as the successor of the Volksbühne’s veteran director Frank Castorf in spring 2015, staff have been in open revolt.” Part of the reason seems to be concern for the theater’s prop and scenery shop, which does some genuinely extraordinary work. But that concern may be based on a simple miscommunication.

Author: Matthew Westphal