“He rose to national attention as a leader of the American Indian Movement in 1970 by directing a band of Indian protesters who seized the Mayflower II ship replica” and went on to lead the famous 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. “Over two decades he appeared in more than 30 films and television productions,” as well as recording CDs and penning a memoir.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Celebrating 150 Years Since The Lumière Brothers
“Long before the Coen brothers, the Weinstein brothers or the Warner brothers entered the scene, the original brothers of film were the Lumière brothers. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Auguste Lumière who was born on October 19 1862 in Besançon, France.”
Australia’s Cultural Cringe Lives On In Classical Music, Says Pianist
Michael Kieran Harvey: “There is no problem with the number or quality of Australian composers or performers; we punch well above our weight for such a population. There is a problem, however, and it is that Australian classical music audiences still regard Australian music and performers as inferior.”
Australia’s Subsidised Companies And Foreign Performers
How do the country’s taxpayer-funded performing arts organisations balance the responsibility to provide opportunities to the nation’s own artists with the imperatives to present the best work possible – and to sell tickets, which often means engaging famous performers from overseas?
Anthony Gormley, The Engineer Of Experience
In a Q&A, the sculptor talks about what his installations – for instance, putting groups of visitors in a pressurized room to do what they want with 100 tons of clay, or placing them on a large reflective platform suspended 25 feet above ground – reveal about the ways humans interact.
Could Co-Productions Reinvigorate British Ballet?
“One of the key issues facing British ballet is the difficulty of building audiences for new choreography, especially in the smaller towns and cities, where 19th-century classics remain the default option at the box office. Would it be impossible for companies such as ENB, the Royal and Birmingham Royal Ballet to address this by collaborating on limited tours of small-scale, contemporary ballets?”
Why Glengarry Glen Ross Now Seems Quaint
“That’s because consequences, like those portrayed in Glengarry, no longer play a role in this new era of mountaintop capitalism, where so few control the fate of so many while being so vastly removed from the actual sale.”
Man Asian Literary Prize Loses Man’s Sponsorship
“Man has sponsored the $30,000 award – won in the past by Chinese author Su Tong, Filipino writer Miguel Syjuco and South Korean Kyung-sook Shin – since it was set up in 2007. But in a struggling [stock] market,” the hedge fund “has decided to ‘concentrate our arts sponsorship on the world-leading Man Booker prize, where our support is about to go into its 12th year’.”
Comedian Wins £54K Libel Judgment From Daily Mirror
Frankie Boyle “won £50,400 after the jury’s verdict on an article that described him as a ‘racist comedian’. Jurors awarded the comedian a further £4,250 over the claim in the article that he was ‘forced to quit’ the BBC2 show Mock the Week.”
Making Your Way Into Chunky Move
One of the first things new artistic director Anouk van Dijk did when she took over the Melbourne modern dance company from founder Gideon Obarzanek was to hold open auditions. Three of the troupe’s eight new members talk about their new jobs (and Alya Manzart explains how he cut his head open).