“It’s not just relatively advanced techniques like pointe work that can cause problems, the academy warns – but forcing ‘turnout’, where dancers splay out their feet and open their hips, can also cause damage.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Time For The Arts World To Take A Long, Hard Look At Its Racism
“It is not for white people to decide what is or is not racist and it is not for them to decide what we people of colour are called. I think statues, plaques and awards paying tribute to racist men should be removed, and in their place should be a little notice naming and shaming them, and naming their prejudice.”
The Rehabilitation Of One Of Los Angeles’ Most Contested Pieces Of Public Art
“‘He wanted to invent a new theory that would interweave color and music through the technology of the Triforium,’ said Leslie Young, one of the artist’s two daughters who spoke recently at the fundraising event. ‘As part of his fantastical plan, my father proposed that laser beams would shoot skyward from the three concrete pillars, tapping out Los Angeles in Morse code,’ said Cecily Young, Joseph Young’s other daughter.”
How Did This Depressing Joni Mitchell Piece Become ‘A Traditional Christmas Song’?
“Perhaps it’s ascended to holiday-hit status precisely because it’s an antidote to all those ‘songs of joy and peace.'”
At The Colburn School, The ‘Last Piano Teacher’ Pushes Students Into The World
“Bidini’s rehearsal room at the Colburn School is a study in ambition, frailties, talent, insecurities and occasional brilliance. The room is bare except for a few chairs, a desk and two pianos that sit side by side: one for Bidini, the other for his student. The student plays, Bidini corrects. On and on it goes through scales, crescendos and silent moments between notes, just before a finger strikes a key hard or slips gently over it to evoke the longing or redemption in the composer’s mind.”
If You’re Bored At Winter Break, Here Are 17 Shakespeare Films To Watch
“Though there’s nothing like seeing Shakespeare live on stage, the magic of cinema can bring new light to the Bard’s classic works—and can allow us to view timeless performances over and over again.”
The Trumpets Of Handel’s ‘Messiah’
“In a brass player’s equivalent of scaling Everest without oxygen, some trumpeters take pride in playing — and meticulously tuning — Handel’s solo on so-called natural trumpets without holes.”
London ‘Garden Bridge’ Idea Hits Some Serious Bumps
“The fairy lights of a Christmas market twinkled through the windows while tourists shuffled along the south bank clutching cups of mulled wine, oblivious to the heated debate going on inside the chamber. The mayor had been summoned, along with the head of Transport for London Mike Brown and its planning director Richard de Cani, to explain themselves to the Greater London Authority’s Oversight Committee over the murky genesis of the proposed garden bridge. And Boris, chief bridge booster, was getting increasingly hot under the collar.”
What Does Mahler Mean?
“Even Mahler’s bucolic idylls were conditioned by his busy life. The resorts where he went were fashionable and increasingly crowded. Good rail connections linked them to the major centers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, making them ‘microcosms of the very cities from which the composer so often claimed to take refuge.’ The experience was more like Davos than Caspar David Friedrich. Mahler’s love of nature was predicated on his separation from it.”
The Podcast That’s Basically A Happy Hour With Serious Politics Amid The Laughter
“Adding to the after-work atmosphere, the show also features quizzes such as Frim Fram Fittlesworth, where Clayton tries to guess whether a nonsensical string of letters is the real name of a British white dude or just a figment of Nigatu’s imagination.”