The Stephen Petronio Company at NYU Skirball Center on April 12, 2019. – Deborah Jowitt
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Method Actors Lose Themselves In Their Roles. Just What Does That Mean And How Does It Work?
They don’t literally forget who they are, since their actual beliefs and desires remain the same. (Put in terms of the model: their Belief and Desire boxes retain their original contents.) However, fully immersed actors ‘forget themselves’ in the sense that they actively ignore facts about who they are, temporarily subordinating their own thoughts and feelings to those of their character. Actors forget their identities like stoners forget the quadratic formula. The information isn’t gone – just temporarily offline. – Aeon
Colm Tóibín Faces Down Testicular Cancer
On “chemo brain”: “It was not merely that the chemo left me fully thoughtless so that as time went on I could not even read; the effect of the drug darkened the mind or filled it with something hard and severe and relentless. It was like pain or a sort of anguish, but those words don’t really cover it. Everything that normally kept the day going, and the mind, was reduced to almost zero.” – London Review of Books
Helvetica Gets An Update
Is there any more ubiquitous font than Helvetica? It’s everywhere. Except it’s not. In recent years more and more publishers have eschewed it for other, newer typefaces. And there are some basic problems with the design. So now a refresh… – Wired
The Choreographer Who Brought Barefoot Modern Dance To Broadway
That would be John Heginbotham, a Mark Morris alumnus who now has his own company. The show is director Daniel Fish’s revisionist Oklahoma! Gia Kourlas talks with the choreographer about what he did with the dream ballet, which is now (after a few other versions) a 13-minute solo. – The New York Times
Why Are TV Writers Are Firing Their Agents? (The People Who Get Them Work)??
We have questions. New York Magazine’s Jordan Crucchiola has some answers. – New York Magazine
What To Do With A Great Ballet Choreographer’s Turkeys?
“Modern dance companies dedicated to a single choreographer generally have audiences ready to invest in the artist — even when not successful — as much as the art,” but it’s not so simple for classical ballet companies. “What happens when a choreographer of stature misfires? Should the work remain in the repertory? And what about a work that fails on some levels but not others?” Hanna Rubin talks to the leaders of a couple prominent ballet companies about the issue. – Dance Magazine
Here’s What America’s Biggest Orchestras Looked Like Online In The Early Days Of The Web
It was back in the late 1990s and the idea of being online was new. Hence explanations of how the web and websites worked… – Classical Dark Arts
Censorship In Prison Libraries — How Far Does It Go?
“The public doesn’t really know the extent of censorship in prison libraries, and it seems that prisons don’t want us to know.” But Christina Cerio took a stab at figuring it out. – Melville House
The Small-Town Grouch Who Declared ‘Libraries Are Communist’ Was Right, Thank Goodness
Theman who said that was in a rural hamlet in the mountains of New York state, and Sue Halpern had just been dragooned by the town board to set up a lending library with a total of $15,000. About a year on, after tremendous success, Halpern decided she agreed: “A public library is predicated on an ethos of sharing and egalitarianism. … It is defiantly, proudly, communal.” – The New York Review of Books