“Top dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze will contest a new reprimand from his employer, the Bolshoi Ballet, in court … [His attorney] said the dancer received the reprimand for saying he was ready to head the company in an interview with NTV TV channel. The Bolshoi refused to comment on the issue to RIA Novosti.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Tamara Rojo Wants Her Dancers To Talk Back
Says the director of English National Ballet, “They don’t question anything. They’re not used to talking back. So I’m saying: ‘Why are you doing that like that? Is this the ballerina you want to look like? Or are you just doing it on automatic?’ Which is quite unsettling at the moment but I’m sure they’ll get the hint.”
Is Abbas Kiarostami Going To Stop Making Films?
“As I try to approach many of the stories I have in my drawers, I find they are all rejecting me. … In the last six months I’ve gone back to six different screenplays and started working on them and I stopped. I dropped them. This is something quite unheard of for me, but no film for me is worth being made now.”
Box Office Revenue Soars At Opera Australia
“In a year that saw strong support for artistic director Lyndon Terracini’s programming, earnings from ticket sales shot up $19.4m from the previous year” to a total of $54.9m.
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexico City’s Great Modernist Architect, Dead At 94
“Over six decades in which much of Mexico evolved from a mostly peasant society into a modern industrial state, [he] and his collaborators built a series of monuments to Mexican culture, including the National Museum of Anthropology, the Azteca soccer stadium, the Legislative Palace and the Basilica of Guadalupe, all in Mexico City.”
How Much Has Russia’s Literary Culture Changed?
Here’s a scene from a recent literary award ceremony: “The videos featured many extreme close-ups, with no effort to conceal writerly pallor, blemishes or facial tics. … The real writers standing onstage looked very small in comparison. Some shifted from side to side, eyes downcast; others trembled. After each prize was announced, models emerged to give trophies to the winners and iPads to the less fortunate. No one looked very happy about the iPad.”
West End Productions To Be Screened In UK Cinemas
The company Digital Theatre “has partnered with film producers CinemaLive and will present its first series of screenings in September 2013. Titles have not yet been announced, but the focus will initially be on commercial West End productions, some newly recorded and some from Digital Theatre’s archive.”
Campaign For Denise Scott Brown’s Retroactive Pritzker Picks Up Steam
The petition to add her to her husband and partner Robert Venturi’s 1991 Pritzker Prize “has now drawn 9,000 signatures, many of them from the world’s most famous architects, including six prior Pritzker winners. And it has reignited long-simmering tensions in the architectural world over whether women have been consistently denied the standing they deserve.”
Limón Technique, Explained By The Limón Dance Company’s Director
Carla Maxwell: “José would sometimes tell people that we just use every day things like walking, falling and turning. … The technique itself can look very lyric, but it’s really a rhythmically-based, dramatically-oriented technique. It’s also action-oriented. It’s not movement for movement’s sake ever. There’s always an objective.”
Hawaii To Have Its First Independent Pops Orchestra
“Matt Catingub, whose last performance as conductor of the former Honolulu Symphony pops was in 2009, said Tuesday he is forming an independent pops orchestra called Hawaii Pops that will launch its first season later this year.” Following the collapse of the Honolulu Symphony, a new Hawaii Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert in March 2012.