For a piece she has titled Document, Sandra Parker “set up a series of what she calls ‘performed interviews’, in which she asked several dancers with whom she had worked to come into the studio and tell her what they recalled of the choreography. … If movement and dance are in some sense ephemeral, in what ways can they be remembered or captured or recorded?”
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Problems With Moral Relativism
“To many thoughtful people, and especially to those who are unwilling to derive their morality from a religion, it appears unavoidable. … Relativism is not always a coherent way of responding to the rejection of a certain class of facts. When we decided that there were no such things as witches, we didn’t become relativists about witches.”
The Love Letters Of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe
“From 1915 until 1946, some 25,000 pieces of paper were exchanged between [the] two major 20th-century artists. [They] wrote each other letters – sometimes two and three a day, some of them 40 pages long.”
Dubbing Movies And TV Into Arabic Is A Complicated Matter
The choice of dialect turns out to be crucial to a particular property’s success. “Should it be Egyptian dialect, the lingua franca of Arabic comedy? Light and airy Lebanese, a proven winner for sitcoms? Syrian Arabic, edgy, serious, well suited to drama? Khaleeji, the dialect of Arabs in the Persian Gulf, the region’s most lucrative television demographic? … Or the old standby, classical Arabic?”
The Pearly Kings And Queens Of London, Now Dwindling And Quarreling
“They are groups of mainly aged ‘Cockney’ Londoners who sew mother-of-pearl buttons on their clothes in lavish designs and sing sentimental pub songs. Begun in the 1870s by an orphan London street sweeper, the Pearlies are mostly known for raising money for charity. But all is not well in their world.”
The Dark Heart Of Ealing’s Comic Films
“Decades of rainy-Sunday screenings have blinded us to the true nature of postwar British cinema – freedom, naughtiness and a very black humour indeed.”
Egyptian Government Downgrades Antiquities Department
“Egypt’s antiquities department has been downgraded from a ministry to a cabinet-affiliated office … [The country’s] antiquities agency had been elevated to a ministry by the former president, Hosni Mubarak, in the last days of his rule; previously it had been under the Ministry of Culture.”
Painter Lucian Freud Dead At 88
“Over a career that spanned 50 years, Freud became famous for his intense and unsettling nude portraits. … [In] 2008, his portrayal of a large, naked woman on a couch – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping – sold at auction for £17m, a record price for the work of a living artist.”
Pushing Taboo Subjects On Singapore’s Stages
“The theater company W!ld Rice has always tried to push the Singapore theater scene’s boundaries by mounting plays that tackle – often humorously – themes regarded as sensitive in the local context, such as homosexuality, religion and politics.”
The Staggering Cost Of Producing On Broadway (Versus London)
As a (cautionary) example, the current London revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, cost £350,000 (about $565,000) to mount, with weekly running costs of £65,000 ($105,000). Producer Sonia Friedman estimates that a Broadway transfer would cost $2.8 million to mount, plus $260,000 or so to run each week.