Novelists Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), Zia Haider Rahman (In the Light of What We Know), and Elif Shahak (The Bastard of Istanbul); playwright/screenwriter Mike Bartlett (King Charles III); and stage director Marianne Elliott (War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) join in a virtual panel discussion on their reactions to the vote, how it’s changed the way they see Britain as a place to make their homes, and when is too early for artworks to address the historic moment.
Author: Matthew Westphal
What Carlos Acosta Is Up To (A Lot), Now That He’s Back In Cuba
He’s founded a company, Acosta Danza, with hald of the dancers trained in classical ballet and the other half in modern dance. (He wants to add in hip-hop and flamenco.) He’s working to keep cultural exchange and resources flowing between the island and Britain. And his biggest dream is to revive the legendary National Art Schools of Havana, built during the ’60s but then abandoned.
Man Cuts Off His Ballet Teacher’s Thumb Because She Threw Him Out Of Class For Being Disruptive
No, this did not happen in Florida.
Why So Many Ph.D. Students Drop Out
It’s not (or not just) because it’ll be hard to find a job in your field.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.06.16
Dancers and Puppets Rebirth the World
Fantasque by John Heginbotham and Amy Trompetter opens Bard Summerscape 2016. … read more
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They don’t expect results
What’s in this post:
- A Boston Symphony concert poster, just as ineffective as most classical music press releases
- A theory: that these materials are ineffective because no one really expects them to do very much.
- And then, at the end, this thought: … read more
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An Indian Immigrant Struggles With The American Penchant For Small Talk
Karan Mahajan: “‘How’s it going?’ I ask the barista. ‘How’s your day been?’
‘Ah, not too busy. What are you up to?’
‘Not much. Just reading.’
This, I have learned, is one of the key rituals of American life. It has taken me only a decade to master.”
Talking With Your Hands Makes You Learn Things Faster (We Knew It!)
“Thanks to René Descartes and a pantheon of very serious dead white men, Western intellectual history has long maintained that thought is something that happens only in the kingdom of the brain; it’s just the body’s job, as educator Ken Robinson famously quipped, to bring the brain from meeting to meeting. But your hands suggest otherwise.”
Appointment Of New Director At Berlin’s Volksbühne Has Some People Panicking About The Entire Direction Of The City
The city government’s choice of Tate Modern art msueum director Chris Dercon for the job “has laid bare long-simmering worries about the direction of Berlin’s arts scene. … Critics say that officials are forsaking an artistic tradition of locally produced, politically and aesthetically unconventional programming. Instead, they see an effort to redraw the theater’s mission to make Berlin a more attractive and marketable destination for tourists and for the internationally minded millennials who have moved into many of that city’s trendiest districts.”
Syrian Refugees’ Adaptation Of ‘The Trojan Women’ Arrives In Brexiting Britain
“The play Queens of Syria is a chance to put a human face on the worst humanitarian disaster since the second world war. … The play, directed by Zoe Lafferty, has changed over time as the cast has shrunk to 13 women” – from up to 50 during the original workshops in the Suyrian refugee community in Amman – “and personal circumstances have moved on.”
Progress: Number Of Nonwhites Working In The Arts In Britain Up By 59% In Past Five Years
“Around 19,000 [black, Asian and minority ethnic] workers were employed in music and the performing and visual arts in 2015, compared to 12,000 in 2011 – a bigger change than in the wider creative industries (44%). Despite the surge, the 2015 figures means just 6.6% of all those in music and the performing and visual arts were black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, compared with 11.3% of those in the UK economy as a whole.”