The demonstration conversation was scripted, the execution was slow, and one German-to-English translation came out “I have many meetings with my colleagues in Redmond, and I take the opportunity to see her fiancée my.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Maya Angelou: ‘I Thought Of Myself As A Giant Ear’
From a 1986 interview with Terry Gross (in which she sings a mean hymn or two herself): “I thought of myself as a giant ear which could just absorb all sound, and I would go into a room and just eat up the sound. … I would listen to the accents, and I still love the way human beings sound. There is no human voice which is unbeautiful to me.” (audio)
Watching Natalia Osipova Rehearse, Up Close
“If you have ever tried to stand upright in a force 10 gale, then you know something of how it feels to be two metres away from Natalia Osipova’s leap.”
Mandela Bio-Opera Closes After Three Shows For Lack Of Funds
The lead producer of Madiba: The African Opera, who is Nelson Mandela’s grand-nephew, says that the R2.86 million [$2.73 million] awarded by South Africa’s national lottery was not enough to pay the large cast and crew for the full five-show premiere run in Pretoria, let alone the planned national tour.
Just How Little Money Do British Actors Make?
“Research revealed that of the 1,700 respondents, 46% made less than £1,000 last year from acting jobs and 30% earned between £1,000 and £5,000. Just 2% earned £20,000 or more.”
Barbican To Open Performance Lab In East London
Fish Island Labs “will provide 50 emerging practitioners with support and guidance during a 10-month residency in which they will develop work from physical performance to digital art.”
The Resurrection Of Stefan Zweig
“In the decades between the two world wars, no writer was more widely translated or read than the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig, and in the years after, few writers fell more precipitously into obscurity, at least in the English-speaking world. But now Zweig, prolific storyteller and embodiment of a vanished Mitteleuropa, seems to be back, and in a big way” – new editions of his books, movie adaptations, new biographies, even a novel about him.
The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas
“[Patricia] Lockwood is all large eyes, apple cheeks and pixie haircut – like an early Disney creation, perhaps a woodland creature; one of her fans recently rendered her as a My Little Pony. The contrast between how she presents and what she writes is something Lockwood delights in. … Her steady [Twitter] stream of surreal, sexually explicit and often sexually impossible humor has won her 30,000 followers.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.28.14
Ownership, without the air quotes
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-05-28
Engagement Working Group
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-05-28
Essential video
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-05-28
The Freer’s Whistler Connection Pays Off (Again)
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-29
Please Do It Again
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-05-28
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Bowing Out: When And Why Dancers Retire
For classical ballet performers, who typically need to stop around (or before) age 40, it’s some version of, “I want to leave while I still love it, before my body is broken.” For contemporary dancers? Says one, “I thought I should retire and seek another profession when I was like 20. But then when I was 30, I was like, ‘Screw it.’ [I’ll keep going] until I end up in a state-funded nursing home.”