“[Caty] Solace has served in the top post since last year. She will remain as a consultant with the organization. The move comes after the ballet ended its 2014-15 season early this spring, canceled its popular Beer and Ballet event and laid off dancers with three weeks left in the season.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
What’s ‘Billy Elliott’ In Tagalog? Manila Street Kids Get Ballet Scholarships
“Despised as pests and preyed on by thugs, rapists, pimps and murderers,for tens of thousands of abandoned orphans and abused runaways life on the streets in the Philippine capital region is unspeakable misery. … In recent years, [a few lucky street boys have] undergone a complete transformation, thanks to an opportunity to join ballet classes at the Academy One Music and Dance Centre.”
Serious Filmmakers Are Trying Out 3-D – So Why Aren’t They Taking It Seriously?
Daniel Engber: “I’ve been looking forward to the moment when 3-D emerges as a mode unto itself – not a gimmick or a money-making adjunct to the standard fare but an art form of its very own. … With some notable exceptions, the new breed of uppity 3-D seems less like an exploration of the format than an exercise in camp appropriation – a way of punching up at corporate greed and spoofing Hollywood excess.”
Nico Castel, 83, ‘The Henry Higgins Of The Metropolitan Opera’
“A highly regarded operatic tenor, Mr. Castel was himself a mainstay of the Met’s stable, appearing in nearly 800 performances with the company from the 1970s onward. A well-traveled polyglot, he also had a parallel career as the company’s staff diction coach, a post he held for some three decades before his retirement in 2009.”
Footnotes In Fiction – There’s A Real Art To Them
Consider not only David Foster Wallace, the great virtuoso/victim of the format, but also Chuck Klosterman, Mark Z. Danielewski, Jenny Boully, and the great father of the footnote as literary device, Vladimir Nabokov.
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Harmonia Mundi Record Label Sold
“Independent music group [PIAS] is acquiring the established French record label and distributor Harmonia Mundi, according to local reports. Established by Bernard Coutaz in Paris in 1958, Harmonia Mundi remains one of the biggest independent players in the classical music sector.”
Amy Schumer, John Oliver, ‘Serial’ – Unorthodox Winners Of 2015 Peabody Awards
“[The] eclectic bunch … ram the gamut from documentarian Alex Gibney to NBC News correspondent Richard Engel to Serial podcaster Sarah Koenig to comedians Amy Schumer and John Oliver. The Serial award struck one of the most intriguing notes of the evening, as it is the first podcast to win a Peabody.”
Sheesh, The Stuff Ya Gotta Do When You Get A Tony Nomination
“The week of the Drama Leagues is the peak of what publicist Chris Boneau calls ‘the month of hate,’ a post-nomination frenzy leading up to the Tonys on June 7.” Here’s (just) some of what the nominees have to do during “the month of hate” – even as they keep performing eight shows a week.
Fully Dressed And Preserved 350-Year-Old Corpse Of French Noblewoman Found
“The remains are most likely those of Louise de Quengo, a widow of Breton nobility who died in 1656 when she was in her 60s. The heart of her husband, Toussaint de Perrein, was found nearby”