Rule One: “Appearing in a pastiche of one of your earlier films is never a wise move. Not only is it disrespectful to that film, it’s also an acknowledgement that you aren’t known for much else. It turns you from an actor to a punchline.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
A Theatrical Feast (That’s Not A Metaphor)
“Described as a ‘live installation with edible interludes’, writer/director Ali Zaidi’s show” – Journeys of Love and More Love – “unfolds before audiences seated at tables as he transforms his personal story into a universal one through video, live performance and food.”
Male Pole Dancers Fight For Equality
“With its roots in strip clubs and bedrooms, pole dancing has been dismissed as a misogynistic playground in which women contort themselves for the viewing pleasure of men. But lately some women have fought to transcend titillation by rebranding it as fitness. … But a lingering taboo surfaces when men seek to slide onto the pole, too.”
India Plans Two Big-And-Splashy New Art Museums
“India’s sub-standard state museum infrastructure is set to be enhanced by plans for” two major institutions, one in Kolkata (Calcutta), with an expected opening in 2014, and another in Patna, planned for 2015.
Turkey’s Drive For Tourism Could Damage Its Ancient Sites, Say Some Experts
“The recent decision to transfer the excavation permits from three well-known classical sites from non-Turkish to Turkish universities – a practice almost unheard of in the protocol-laden world of archaeology – is a cracking of the whip over foreign scholars regarded as not working fast enough to transform the country’s extensive array of antiquities into tourist attractions.”
Don’t Know The Work Of The New Nobel Literature Winner? Start Here.
“[The] 80-year-old Swedish psychologist and poet Tomas Tranströmer, just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, writes surreal, imagistic poems that explore his fascinations with the music of memory and nature. If you want to get to know his work, here are a few good entry points.”
So You’re Doing A Stage Monologue About Steve Jobs – How’re You Gonna Handle His Death?
Mike Daisey, writer and performer of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, now running at New York’s Public Theater, “performs his works extemporaneously, rather than with a prepared script … [He does] not plan to add a new scene or epilogue but rather infuse the entire work with perspectives about the capacity of Mr. Jobs’s influence to continue, even in death.”
BBC Cuts Will Have Little Impact On Viewers – This Time
The network’s Director General, Mark Thompson, “has found a hefty £700m in annual savings by 2016/17 to ensure that the licence fee is held flat, but he has done it in such a way that there will be little impact on viewers. … [But] the BBC boss believes, convincingly, little more can be achieved behind the scenes.”
Ethan Stiefel’s Hopes For Royal New Zealand Ballet
The ABT star, about to take the RNZB’s reins as artistic director, looks forward to molding a company not weighed down by a long historical tradition; choreographing new pieces, and (of course) riding his Harley the length of the country.
Five Choreographers’ Favorite Choreographers
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Derek Deane, Christopher Bruce, Kim Brandstrup, and Shobana Jeyasingh offer tributes to the living dancemakers they most admire.