Precious Adams, an 18-year-old dancer from metro Detroit scheduled to graduate from the Academy this spring, says that she has been ordered out of auditions, advised to experiment with bleaching her skin, and told to “try and rub the black off.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
TV Advertisers Discover The Power Of Dance
“Not only have adverters cottoned on to the fact that the art form is having a global moment, but they’re discovering that dance has its own expertise at combining the subliminal emotional message with the instantly striking image. However queasy you may feel about the trend, the industry is at least showing good taste in the talent they sign.”
British Drive To Create 50,000 New Arts Jobs For Young People
“The national strategy, called Building a Creative Nation, is calling upon the UK’s 107,000 creative sector employers to each recruit a person aged 16 to 24 by 2016. The initiative is designed to ensure that young people are able to gain paid jobs in arts organisations.”
They’re Not Dead Yet! Monty Python To Do Reunion Show
“The five surviving members of the Flying Circus – John Cleese, 74, Terry Gilliam, 72, Terry Jones, 71, Eric Idle, 70, and Michael Palin, 70 – are set to re-form for a stage show, the details of which are due to be revealed on Thursday.” Says Jones, “I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage!”
Terry Gilliam To Make 7th Attempt At Ill-Starred Don Quixote Project
“It is the film project that refuses to die in the face of freak storms, wholesale cast changes and struggles with Hollywood financiers. Terry Gilliam has once again vowed to bring his long-awaited, regularly abandoned” script The Man Who Killed Don Quixote “to the big screen almost a decade and a half after it was supposed to wrap.”
Spanish Filmmaker-Turned-Gambler Returns To Spotlight
“Before turning to gambling, [Gonzalo] García Pelayo was a prolific director during the key period of Spain’s transition to democracy, and onward into the 1980s. … But then his film career withered. Now, the [Vienna Film Festival’s] organizers are hoping to renew interest in a body of work that is unknown internationally (and less known in Spain than [his] gambling exploits).”
That Strange Bowed-String Keyboard Instrument Designed By Leonardo? It’s Not Really Leonardo’s Design
The viola organista Slawomir Zubrzycki built and demonstrated last week is in fact much closer to the Geigenwerk designed and built by the German organist Hans Hyden in 1575.
Spider-Man‘s Broadway Investors Aghast At Huge Losses
“Investors and executives with the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark said on Tuesday that the show will have historic losses of up to $60 million when it closes on Jan. 4. … Several investors said they were reeling from the closing announcement, made on Monday night.”
Bullying And Harassment Rife In UK Theatre Industry: Survey
“More than half of theatre professionals – including backstage staff, performers and creatives – have been bullied, harassed or discriminated against in the workplace, with women more likely than men to be the victim of abuse.”
Bloomberg News Slashes Arts Coverage, Shutters Muse
“Bloomberg, the New York-based financial news giant, is shutting down its Muse brand of cultural journalism and has laid off its theater critic” as well as its books editor. “The shake-up was part of a company-wide reorganization that came down on Monday and resulted in layoffs around the newsroom.”