“Indhu Rubasingham is to be the new artistic director of the Tricycle theatre, when Nicolas Kent steps down in May next year after 28 years in charge.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation Expands Beyond WWII Holocaust
“Since Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994, the organization has devoted itself exclusively to the memory of Holocaust survivors. … [But] the foundation is now incorporating testimonies from [other] mass atrocities” – to start, those of the Rwandans, Cambodians and Armenians – “into its archives.”
Turkish Television Takes On Topic Of Child Brides
Roughly one-quarter of Turkish women are married before age 18, with the number nearing one-half in parts of Anatolia. A new prime-time serial, whose two-minute trailer has become an online hit in Turkey, is addressing the issue openly.
New York City Opera Rejects Performers’ Offer To Perform For Free
The endangered company’s orchestral players and singers had offered to give up their pay for this season in exchange for maintaining health insurance and other benefits and a say in management. Administrators say that the company cannot afford even that proposal and can only pay per hour of labor.
Louisville Orchestra Musicians Reject Management’s Latest Offer
“The musicians voted last night on the most recent proposal and unanimously rejected it, according to a statement. In the statement, musicians say they cannot accept an offer that restricts them from performing elsewhere, provides limited job security and includes a pay cut.”
Are There Any Writers Who Are Always Brilliant?
“When we say that we love a writer’s work,” Martin Amis recently opined, “we are always stretching the truth: what we really mean is that we love about half of it.” (He suggests as exceptions only Homer and Harper Lee.) Is Amis right?
Piet Mondrian Had A London Period (Who Knew?)
An exhibition in London “examines a little-known period of Mondrian’s life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with … avant-garde British artists.”
What An Old Card Trick Shows About Subconscious Perception
A Spanish researcher “has used the card trick to reveal how we take in more visual information than we consciously notice. The results suggest that if you are not sure whether you recognise something or someone, you should pay attention to your gut instinct. Your subconscious may have registered the information after all.”
Attention Must Be Paid: Subconscious Perception Isn’t Enough
“Yes, awareness may require only minimal attention; but it does require some attention. Nothing happens quite automatically. … We can be paying attention even though we’re not completely aware of doing so – but we can’t be aware of something if we’re not paying attention to it.”
It’s All About The Screaming: Alexei Ratmansky On Western Vs. Russian Ballet Training
“[In North America and in Europe] it’s more liberal. You can’t push the kids to work very hard. You can’t touch the kids, of course. You can’t scream. It’s hard to convince little children to work very hard and to go through pain. In Russia, it was like the army. It’s one of the reasons they produce very good dancers.”