The chamber-size company was launched in 1979 by former Boston Ballet dancers Skip Warren and Rachel Whitman and moved around the Massachusetts coast until sputtering out on Cape Cod in 2003. Now the founders’ daughter, Lucy Warren-Whitman, has revived the troupe.
Author: Matthew Westphal
“Commercial” Is Not A Dirty Word For This New Generation Of Theatre Producers
Says one, Vicky Graham, “Talking to a potential investor is a good way of seeing whether the idea you have has a chance of success. If they’re not interested, maybe an audience won’t be either.”
All Those People Transcribing Smithsonian Documents For Free – What’s In It For Them?
“‘It’s a different way to interact with our records,’ said the Smithsonian’s project coordinator Meghan Ferriter, ‘and once they get into it, they realize how cool our collection at the Smithsonian really is.'” Turns out she’s not kidding.
The Things You Learn Transcribing For The Smithsonian
WSJ reporter Kelly Crow: “What happened to the painting? The mystery kept churning in my imagination as I transcribed a draft of a letter that American modernist Arthur Dove wrote in May 1933 to his biggest patron, Duncan Phillips.”
How To Get Street Artists To Help Create Your Designer Furniture Line
Ariel Zuckerman and Eran Shimshovitz “hung wooden boards around the southern Tel Aviv neighborhood near their workshop and waited for graffiti artists to do their work.” Which they did – whereupon Zuckerman and Shimshovitz took the boards back to the workshop and fashioned them into furniture.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.11.14
Art of 9/11: Remnants, Models, Memorial Tributes
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The Sad State of New Music
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Gerald Wilson And Harmony
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Guelph’s jazz fest/colloquium of cosmic improvisation, Deutsch pix
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Things I’m thinking about…
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Going After Websites That Infringe Copyright Is Like “Whacking Moles”: Advocate
The head of the Australian consumer advocacy group Choice told a forum in Sydney, “The fundamental test if we are going to do something is we need to be confident it will work. If you look at site blocking it is like whacking moles. People who run websites move much faster than courts.”
How The Belarus Free Theatre Keeps On Battling A Stalinist Regime
In Belarus, the KGB attends Free Theatre shows, sometimes just to scare the performers. Other times, the evenings end in arrests. Criminal cases brought against the company drove four members to permanent exile in London. But they never cease their work. … The company now functions as a two-pronged operation: In England they perform with a rotating ensemble of British and Belarusian actors, and in Belarus they continue to write, develop and rehearse new material.”
Robert Curran Wants To Make Classic Ballets “Cinematic”
Says the former Australian Ballet star, who’s just starting his new job as artistic director of Louisville Ballet: “I might be a bit presumptuous in saying this but I would really like to bring a cinematic quality to these productions, to these traditional ballets. I think audiences are used to and expect a certain quality in period pieces, whether they be on the silver screen or whether they be on stage. So what I would really like to bring is reality.”
“Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies” Plays Headed To Broadway
Broadway and London producers are in talks about a New York run of the hit British play Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the historical novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII and his adviser Thomas Cromwell … Both plays are running in repertory in London’s West End, where they have enjoyed critical acclaim and record-breaking ticket sales.”