“The surplus is significant: Ballet B.C. has spent the past three years rebuilding itself after near financial collapse. [Artistic director Emily] Molnar’s programming and ability to lure top contemporary choreographers is being given a lot of the credit for the successful rebirth of the troupe.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Ten Reasons Ohad Naharin Loves To Choreograph
#7: “I love to choreograph since it’s where I can put my skills, passion, and imagination into one pot, and it also makes me feel sexy.”
QR Codes On Tombstones – The Future Of Mourning?
That’s how it’s happening in Japan and China. “The codes serve multiple purposes: when scanned, they lead to a website with photos and information about the deceased and allow for users to give virtual gifts, like food, incense, or a Buddhist funeral chant.” The websites also serve as a locus of mourning for those who can’t travel to the gravesite – or when, in China, the loved one’s remains are removed and the tomb is reused.
Forget Being Cool – Uncool Is Better For You
“The pursuit of cool winds up an exhausting chase for a quick high, with trendsetters and tastemakers forced to jump from one drug to the next. … Cool is a sword to live and die by, a binary system that pits you against others. It requires not only love, but hate: a rejection of the mainstream. Or the alternative. Whatever.”
Fun Home: How On Earth Do You Make A Time-Skipping Graphic Memoir Into A Book Musical?
“The specific challenges range from the practical – in her cartoons, [Alison] Bechdel can depict her parents and brothers at many different points in their lives, while the musical has less flexibility with its flesh-and-blood actors – to the literary: The book’s storytelling is very recursive.”
Even Nicholas Hytner Has Trouble Understanding Shakespeare
“Sir Nicholas … said he will often start to watch a play, thinking ‘I haven’t the faintest idea what they’re talking about”. He added: ‘I’m the director of the National Theatre, so I don’t know how everybody else is coping.”
Missing Miro Turns Up After Three Years – Or One Month
The 1975 drawing was lent out in late 2010 by the Miro Foundation in Mallorca for a show in San Sebastion. But the Foundation didn’t realize the drawing was missing until the following year, and didn’t report it to the police until this August. The police found it within a month. (Guess where.)
How To Put The Jungle Book Onstage And Not Come Off As Racist Or Clueless
“Staging Kipling in 2013 isn’t the same task as it was in 1962 when Disney first tackled it, or in 1942 when the Korda brothers filmed their resonant version. … New Jungle Book adapters can’t claim the same obliviousness; they must contend with the legacy of British colonialism, American racism, and contemporary identity politics against the backdrop of a multimillion dollar brand.” Mary Zimmerman seems to have met the challenge.
Why Are Hundreds Of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy?
“For one thing, the class fulfills one of Harvard’s more challenging core requirements, Ethical Reasoning. It’s clear, though, that students are also lured in by [the professor’s] bold promise: ‘This course will change your life.’ His students tell me it is true” – which may be why the course is the third most popular at the entire university.
What Brought Jorma Elo To Ballet? Hockey
The Finnish choreographer “was a promising young goalie. And if you know anything about hockey, you know that goalies need to be incredibly flexible. They need to be able to do some serious splits. To do that, the young netminder, the son of a physician and a dentist, signed up for his first dance lessons at 12.”