“‘For the girls here, ballet is a life experience,’ said 20-year-old instructor Tuany Nascimento, who started the ‘Na Ponta dos Pés’ project in 2012. … ‘Every plié and jump they make is a step closer to entering college, or getting their dream job.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Gentrification Of D.C. Is Killing A Longtime Go-Go Tradition
“For almost 40 years, go-go has musically defined the nation’s capital. The beat has provided a proud cultural and musical tradition attracting generations of fans. But in recent years, gentrification has threatened the musical genre’s hold over the city. ‘The state of D.C. is not D.C. anymore, it’s not Chocolate City,’ says Anwan ‘Big G’ Glover of Backyard Band.”
The Man Who Makes ‘Hamilton’ Sound Good
“You would never expect to find a banjo in a hip-hop band, but ‘The Room Where it Happens’ just cried for it. That to me is probably my single greatest idea in the whole show, only because it’s so quirky and is so of the style of the music. It’s so Kander and Ebb-y, Dixieland, so I just sat down to orchestrate it, and I’m thinking to myself, ‘What can the guitar do?’ And literally in a flash of light, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, it could be a banjo!'”
Tehran Symphony Orchestra Banned From Event 15 Minutes Before Performance Because Organizers Suddenly Didn’t Want Women Onstage
“‘I was offended and said it was impossible for me to accept such an insult,’ Rahbari added. ‘We either play all together or we leave.'”
Why Is ‘Macbeth’ So Great Onscreen When It Often Bombs Onstage?
“Film’s ability to glide from the supernatural panorama to the eyes of the protagonist is a boon for a play in which the outer world uncannily mirrors the unconscious life of the protagonist.”
What It Costs To Run A (New York) Gallery
“Veteran art dealers report that some big things have changed to make it more difficult, and less profitable, to run an art gallery—even in what’s been, at least for the past few years, a booming market for Contemporary art. Basic expenses are way up, from the proliferation of far-flung art fairs (a slew begin this week in Miami) and rising rent, to climbing insurance and storage costs. A lot else is different, too.”
3-D Printers Are Going To Revolutionize Pretty Much Everything
“If we’re going to use physical ‘documents’ the way we use paper ones—glancing at them for an hour, or perhaps only a moment, then tossing them aside—we’ll need printing material to be recyclable, even biodegradable. Imagine the 3-D printing equivalent of a Post-it note! What’s more, we need our intellectual culture to evolve. Right now, we don’t value or teach spatial reasoning enough; “literacy” generally only means writing and reading.”
Just Exactly Where Is Vermeer’s ‘Little Street’? An Art Historian Knows
“While various theories had been suggested for the location of the painting over the years, Grijzenhout was the first researcher to consult an arcane document from 1667, about a decade after the work was painted.”
Why Do We Try To Reassure Kids That Life Will Be Safe When It’s Clearly So Unsafe And Tragic?
“As a parent I understand that desire to try to keep our offspring in a safe space, but it’s illusory. Life is not safe. The world is full of cruelty, both random and intentional. The world is also full of beauty and I’ve found the trick is to try to concentrate on finding the joy among the rubble, rather than sticking our fingers in our ears, singing lalala and claiming that life is undilutedly sweet.”
The Arts In Britain: Survey Says They’re Still Male, Still White, Still Middle-Class
“The survey reinforced the recent findings of the Warwick Commission, which found that arts and culture was being ‘systematically removed’ from the state education system, and that arts audiences were predominantly white and middle class. Both factors were contributing to the creative sector becoming a closed shop, particularly to those from black, asian and ethnic minorities (BAME) and less affluent backgrounds.”