She started practicing about a decade ago: “The froufrou dresses, the bling, the spray tan, the hair. … At that time I had never really walked in high heels. I didn’t have pierced ears. I didn’t have contact lenses. You can’t do competitive dance in bifocals.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Six Stories We Tell Again And Again
So this team of scientists starts using math to analyze books, and they decide there are six story arcs. But wait: “The book that fit the Icarus arc best was a collection of 196 yoga sutras.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend 11.20.16
Breaking away
Can you remember the movie Breaking Away? From 1979, and set at that time, in my current home town of Bloomington, Indiana. Four lads just out of high school, all lacking a sense of purpose. … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2016-11-20
Recent Listening: Phil Norman Tentet
Phil Norman Tentet, Then & Now (MAMA Records) This album’s tune list could create an expectation that we’re in for just another trip down the memory lane of modern jazz classics. No, Norman’s ensemble combines … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-11-19
Journey for Two
David Vaughan and Pepper Fajans in Co. Venture at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Pepper Fajans (L) and David Vaughan do a little routine in Co. Venture, created and choreographed by Fajans and directed by Chris Green. … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-11-19
Going Cold Turkey (in Cyberspace)
Click to enlarge.The computer screen has become a substitute for reality, dominating us not just by way of social media but — old news — by making artifacts like books on paper seem obsolete. I … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-11-18
The Winner Of The BBC’s ‘Young Musician’ Competition Has A Pretty Clear-Eyed View Of A Solo Career
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has six musician siblings, but he turned to Nicola Benedetti (the 2004 Young Musician winner) for advice: “She advised that while I’m still young and studying I should learn as much repertoire as possible, because it becomes more difficult once you’re doing lots of concerts.”
Aside From ‘Hamilton,’ How Will Theatre (And Other Arts) Respond In The Age Of Trump?
Howard Sherman: “There will be more plays – and poems and books and movies and perhaps even operas and symphonies – about the new America that looms. The America that was revealed by a rash of racist and misogynist attacks in the past week, has been present all along in some quarters. It has now been given leave to emerge based on a perception that law enforcement may be less concerned.”
The Salvador Dali Cookbook
Young Dalí wanted to be a chef, and as an adult artist, “he loved the ‘logarithmic curve’ of cauliflowers.” Of COURSE he did.
How To Teach 1984 Now (It Isn’t Pretty)
Basically, yikes: “If a student asks about the point of it all, I ask him why no one else seems to have the same concern. I get louder. I get meaner. I give students points for alerting me to the sources of dissent. Eager to shore up their grades, gleeful at the chance to tweak friends and possibly enemies, a few students furtively hand over notes after classes.”
The Artwork Of Identity (That Goes On Despite The Election)
Artist Genevieve Gaignard’s self-portraits, in which she mixes Cindy Sherman and Carrie Mae Weems with her own performance style, says “Maybe it can help [viewers] be more open and understanding to lifestyles, different people’s existence and upbringings, class and gender. I feel like that’s what’s being talked about right now.”
The Factory Practice Of Reading Out Loud Inspired And Mobilized Workers In Cigar Factories
This is a story of the human readers – called “lectors” – and their political affiliations, and how technology changed everything.
Leonard Cohen Was Many Things, And One Was That He Was Unapologetically ‘Judaism’s Bard’
“It seems an obvious point, but it nods to a larger one that was either overlooked or underplayed in the extensive obituaries that followed Cohen’s death last week. Put simply, Cohen was an intensely Jewish artist — along with Philip Roth, perhaps the most deeply Jewish artist of the last century.”