Jessa Balote, 14, who lives in a slum next to a giant waste dump and whose parents earn tiny bits of money scavenging and selling trash, “is one of 54 students enrolled in ‘Project Ballet Futures,’ a program run by Ballet Manila to provide free ballet training to children from some of the city’s most deprived neighborhoods.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Leonardo – Great Artist Or Great Scientist? To Him, There Was No Difference
“Leonardo was a scientist and an artist at the same time and in a way totally unimaginable today. CP Snow’s famous image of the ‘two cultures’ of art and science, a great divide in the modern mind, did not apply in the 15th and early 16th centuries when Leonardo lived.”
Hilary Mantel On Putting Words In The Mouths Of Her Tudor Characters
“How do you give the past a human voice without betraying it or making your reader furiously impatient? Too much period flavor, and you slow up the story. ‘Nay, damsel, be not afeared,’ may be authentic, but it will make your reader giggle. If you give way to an outbreak of ‘prithee’ and ‘perchance,’ then perchance your reader will hurl the book across the room.”
Soweto Gets Its First Theatre
“The 150m rand (£12m) structure of concrete, ceramic tiles and glass has a multicoloured, curving design reminiscent of Frank Gehry’s architecture. It contains three auditoriums with a total of about 630 seats.”
‘Opportunities Missed’ – An Architecture Critic Reviews L.A.’s Expo Line Light Rail
“The architecture of the new stations, unfortunately, is not just weak but somehow aggressively banal. If that strikes you as a contradiction in terms, you’re right.”
Nasher Sculpture Center’s Glare Problem Has Dallas All Heated Up
The glass skin of the condo tower going up near the museum “now reflects so much light that it is threatening artworks in the galleries, burning the plants in the center’s garden and blinding visitors with its glare. No one quite knows what to do. The condo developer and museum officials are at loggerheads. Fingers are being pointed. [Nasher architect Renzo] Piano is furious. The developer’s architect is aggrieved. The mayor is involved.”
Met Opera Pressures Radio Station To Axe Blog Critical Of Ring; Radio Station Caves
“WQXR pulled a blog posting critical of the Metropolitan Opera’s new Ring cycle last month after the Met’s general manager, Peter Gelb, personally complained to the radio station’s top executive.”
So What Did This Supposedly Terrible Blog Post About The Met Ring Really Say?
“Though [the] post has been scrubbed from the WQXR site, a cached version can be viewed here as a PDF. La Cieca invites the cher public to decide for themselves whether the piece was inflammatory enough to provoke an act of what can only be called censorship.”
WQXR: We Can’t Criticize The Met Ring, But You Certainly Can
“If you’ve attended the Ring this season at the Met, or have seen one of the HD broadcasts, give us your review below. Once the Ring concludes, we’ll post a final collective article with your opinions.”
BalletMet Columbus’s Artistic Director Decamps For Joffrey
“Gerard Charles, artistic director of BalletMet Columbus, will leave in July to become Ballet Master of Chicago’s renowned Joffrey Ballet.”