Gia Kourlas talks to the choreographer about Lazarus, a two-act work (the company’s first) he’s creating for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 60th anniversary. Harris says he’s basing his movement on GQ, a street-dance style which he says developed in Philadelphia at the time break-dancing evolved in New York.
Author: Matthew Westphal
How Do You Create Site-Specific Dance For The Madhouse That Is Times Square?
The Times Square Alliance and Danspace Project collaborated “to create a program of original works in Times Square this fall that reference the history and experience of the place. An estimated 33,000 people passed through the area each day during the four-hour program — most just happening upon it. What they saw was unique even for Times Square.”
‘Relative Stability’ Gave U.S. Theatres Space To Catch Their Breath, Says TCG 2017 Report
“Theatre Communications Group’s Theatre Facts 2017 observes that, with the recession largely behind them, U.S. theatres in 2017 were in a position of relative stability. … Naturally, not every company in the country was in this position, but that relative stability meant some theatre organizations could carve out time to address debt reduction, engage in strategic planning, and prepare for upcoming changes.”
Two Panels Of Mantegna Painting Reunited For First Time In At Least 300 Years
The lower half of the 1492 diptych, titled The Descent of Christ Into Limbo, has been owned by a private collector since 2003; the upper panel, The Resurrection of Christ, belongs to the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo and was only recently identified as Andrea Mantegna’s work. The pair will be displayed together beginning next month at the National Gallery in London.
Margaret Atwood Is Writing A Sequel To ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
“Dear Readers, Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book,” writes Atwood in her announcement. “Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.” The novel, titled The Testaments, will be released next September.
Victoria Donohoe, Longtime Art Critic For Philadelphia Inquirer, Dead At 89
She never learned to drive, never had a TV, never mastered computers or email. Yet for 50 years she covered shows at museums and galleries all over the Philadelphia metro area, filing more than 1,000 articles from 1962 to 2012.
The Art Of Imaginary Facts
“In a landscape where ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ are part of our everyday vocabulary, this term might put some on the back foot – but the crucial difference between an imaginary fact and an alternative one is that the audience is fully aware [that the former] is a pretence.” Most of us are familiar with the concept in the form of “mockumentary” films and TV shows such as This Is Spinal Tap and The Office, but it’s now stretching into museums as well.
With New Contract, San Francisco Symphony Musicians Are America’s Best Paid
The four-year labor agreement, ratified a week before the old one expired, sets a base salary of $3,263 per week, a figure that will steadily rise to $3,570 per week for the final six months of the term.
Berkshire Museum Says It’s Finished Selling Off Art
“Nearly a year and a half after it announced plans to part with 40 artworks from its collection in order to close a budget gap, pay for building repairs and renovations, and pursue a new programming agenda [focused on science and history], the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, said today that it has completed the sales, bringing in $53.25 million for 22 works.”
Early Writing By Anne Sexton Rediscovered After 60 Years
“The lost work – four poems and an essay … appeared in the Christian Science Monitor between July 1958 and July 1959, which is where Zachary Turpin … discovered them while searching Sexton’s digital archive.”