“As Charlotte Boye-Christensen prepares to step down as artistic director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, the question arises: Who has ownership and control over the choreography she produced while an employee? … Boye-Christensen wants control over which of her dance works continue to represent her in the company’s repertoire.” The company’s response: “This is not something we wish to discuss at this time.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Why The World Is Arguing Over Who Runs The Internet
“Who runs the internet? For the past 30 years, pretty much no one.” And that was deliberate. “But perhaps not for much longer. This week, 2000 people have gathered for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to discuss, in part, whether they should be in charge.”
Jon Stewart Almost Quit The Daily Show Before He Began
As he tells Stephen Colbert, “I walk in the door, into a room with the writers and producers, and the first thing they say is ‘this isn’t some MTV bullshit’ … And then I was told not to change the jokes or improvise.” He promptly instructed his agent to “get me the **** out of this. These people are insane.”
San Diego’s Orchestra Nova To Shut Down
The CEO of the 28-year-old chamber orchestra blames “the orchestra’s inability to reach an agreement with [the musicians’ union]. … For much of this year, Orchestra Nova had been in talks with the union over salary increases and the proposed change from typical yearlong contracts to concert-by-concert contracts for musicians.”
Yale Art Gallery To Reopen After Three-Year, $135M Makeover
Architect Richard Olcott “called the project ‘beyond a renovation. It was a series of interventions,’ in which floors that were sometimes half a floor off were joined, steel beams were sunk over the length of four stories to hold added roof space for dramatic ceilings.”
The Man Who Transformed Yale’s Art Gallery
“Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery, likes to say that when he took over in 1998, the collection … had grown so large that its landmark Louis Kahn building resembled an ‘old sock drawer.’ The museum could show only a small fraction of its holdings, and some works had been in storage so long that even the curators had never seen them.”
‘We Had Battles In The Beginning’: Nikolaj Hübbe On Coming Home To The Royal Danish Ballet
“[The] system here, which is a civil servant one, can really breed complacency. … When I came, the company took class when they felt like it. … I said, you are wasting the opportunity to improve. What I learned is that you can’t just tell people what to do in Denmark. You have to explain your point of view, why, and what good can come out of it.”
Why Theatres Keep Coming Back To Chekhov
“Chekhov flatters everyone, thesps, play-goers, designers, producers. … When director Peter Brook first saw Chekhov, he said it was like listening to a tape recorder that had been accidentally switched on during a family argument. To modern audiences, raised on reality TV and soap operas, this humdrum realism is in tune with our aesthetic expectations.”
Landfill Harmonic: Paraguay’s Recycled Orchestra Makes Instruments Out Of Trash
“The upcoming documentary Landfill Harmonic (a totally righteous pun, I feel obligated to note) is about a slum in Cateura, Paraguay that still has an orchestra, and orchestra with instruments made of trash.”
Charles Dickens’s Great Disappointments: His Children
Robert Gottlieb: “Now people, if they think of Dickens’ children at all, say, ‘Oh, they were failures.’ But they weren’t. … What’s interesting is not just that he expected so much of them, but that we, because they are the children of Charles Dickens, expect so much from them.”