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Trisha Brown Dance Company Partners With Bard College

“As part of the relationship, which begins this month, Bard will have rights to rehearse and perform selections from Ms. Brown’s repertory. … Artists from the troupe will embed in the faculty, teaching classes and shaping the school’s course offerings to reflect … not so much Ms. Brown’s technique as her way of thinking.”

When Did Crying Become Unmanly? It Didn’t Use To Be …

“Historical and literary evidence suggests that, in the past, not only did men cry in public, but no one saw it as feminine or shameful. In fact, male weeping was regarded as normal in almost every part of the world for most of recorded history. … So where did all the male tears go? The truth is, we don’t know for certain. There was no anti-crying movement.”

Four Bolshoi Stars Discuss The Most Romantic Ballet Of All

Evgenia Obraztsova: “Many people think that Giselle just dies and her ghost is a shell. I personally think it is a soul.” Anastasia Stashkevich: “I opened my eyes when the curtain closed and I just didn’t understand. I died with my heroine and couldn’t imagine how I could compose myself and perform the second act.” (video)

Bestselling Author Commits Suicide One Day Before Release Of New Book

The death of Dutch novelist and columnist Joost Zwagerman, 51, “emerged on Tuesday evening when he failed to turn up for a radio interview to talk about his new book De stilte van het licht (The Silence of Light). Much of the music he had chosen for the programme was about death.”

Female Students Demand Right To Act In Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Shows – And They May Well Get It

While woman have worked behind the scenes on Hasty Pudding’s burlesque productions since the 1950s, the casts have been all-male since the group’s first show in 1844. When two young women announced that they had signed up to audition and began a social media campaign, Hasty Pudding’s president said the group has been discussing co-ed casts for months.

Boston Symphony’s New Music Director Takes A Second Post – At Leipzig’s Gewandhaus

“Mr. Nelsons, 36, will continue to lead the Boston Symphony, which recently extended his contract through at least 2022, after he begins his five-year contract at the Gewandhaus Orchestra in the fall of 2017. … Boston and Leipzig are working to make a virtue of Mr. Nelsons’s involvement with both orchestras. The Boston Symphony will perform in Leipzig, and the Gewandhaus Orchestra will perform at Symphony Hall in Boston. They are starting a joint commissioning program that will begin in the 2017-18 season.”

Jerry Saltz On How Picasso the Sculptor Ruptured Art History

“We don’t think of Picasso as a sculptor, but we should. He was a great one. In the years after that summer with Braque, Picasso performed a vivisection of 500 years of Western spatial perspective.”

Aretha Franklin Blocks Showing Of Documentary At Toronto And Telluride Festivals

“Amazing Grace offers an unfiltered look a 1972 gospel concert Franklin gave at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church. Footage was initially shot by the late Sydney Pollack for Warner Bros. … At issue is whether Franklin has veto power over use of the footage. … [She] is seeking a deal before the film is shown, including a $1-million up-front free as well as a revenue-share arrangement.”

Four Moments That Didn’t Make Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Premiere

“Like someone who can’t help but overindulge on too many Oreo cookies, Stephen Colbert had more material than he needed for his first episode as host of CBS’s The Late Show on Tuesday. After a taping that ran about two hours, the show was cut down to about 70 minutes for air. Though some of that extra material has been released as bonus content on the web, here’s some of what you didn’t see on Mr. Colbert’s debut broadcast.”

Author: Matthew Westphal