“Following his sudden walkout from the world-famous company [the Royal Ballet] where he was trained and nurtured as the most promising young man for decades, he is returning to Sadler’s Wells in a mere three weeks with the independent programme of male ballet put on by his compatriot-in-rebellion Ivan Putrov.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Akram Khan On Being Injured And Sidelined From Dance
“I am completely destroying my whole body, all my technique and strength. It will come back, it’s like riding a bicycle, but I will have to start from scratch. It’s a bit traumatic. … The only good thing about this is that my mind’s been dancing a lot. I have been creating a lot.”
Kathryn Bigelow To Recreate Bin Laden Compound And Town For Film
“[The] Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker … is to recreate the Pakistan Army garrison town Abbottabad in India for her new film on the US Navy Seals who tracked and killed Osama bin Laden.”
Colm Tóibín On Writers And Their Fathers
“Thus the death of Borges’s father and Naipaul’s father left space clear for the sons to work. They would only have powerful ghosts rather than real presences looking over their shoulders, ghosts whom they could dismiss at will. Like Picasso, whose father was a failed painter, or William James, whose father was a failed essayist, they could compensate for their fathers’ failure, while killing off the fathers’ indolent influence.”
Art Meets Agriculture In Rural California
“Yolo County’s ‘Art & Ag Project’ … has artists interacting with farmers at their farms and creating artwork. [The National Endowment for the Arts program] ArtPlace has given YoloArts $63,000 this year, as part of the first year of the project in which $11.5 million was doled out to 34 locally initiated projects.”
How Should One Dispose Of A Quran, Anyway?
“Violent protests have raged outside Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan for two days after local workers found the burned remains of more than 100 Qurans in a pile of garbage from the base. What’s the proper way to dispose of a Quran?”
Obama Sings The Blues, And A Music Critic Opines
Jon Pareles: “Blues singing is part oratory, and after a faltering start on Tuesday, Mr. Obama declaimed his lines with adequate warmth and gusto. … But performing in public – especially in the YouTube era – means that an amateur faces comparison to professionals, while the choice of repertory also gets scrutinized. And should the head of state be taking time away from the job to practice?”
Marina Abramovic Will Teach People How To Watch Performance Art
“How do you watch long performance art? There are many things they have to understand about concentration and contemplation. How do you see something when nothing is happening? It’s really difficult. I will make work and exercises for the public, and I call it the Abramovic method. You hear of Stanislavski method for theatre? This is the time for Abramovic method.”
Osvaldo Golijov Accused Of Plagiarism In Second Work
Last week critic Tom Manoff said that the composer’s Sidereus incorporated large chunks of music from Michael Ward-Bergeman’s score Barbeich; Ward-Bergeman says the borrowings were made with his cooperation. Now a Brazilian journalist says Golijov used, without attribution, a Brazilian pop sing for the second movement of his string quartet Kohelet.
L’Affaire Golijov: Is It Plagiarism When The Plagiarizee Says It’s Okay?
Anne Midgette: “That people are getting outraged about this simply means that they are unfamiliar with Golijov’s modus operandi. Golijov works this way with other composers all the time, folding their work into his pieces with their approval.”