Rubén Olmo, a 39-year-old dancer and choreographer from Seville who performed with the company from 1998-2002, will succeed Antonio Najarro as of September 1. Olmo’s plans include increased touring and “opening [the company] to the vanguards of dance and new trends in flamenco.” (in Spanish; for Google Translate version, click here) – El País (Madrid)
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US Justice Department Warns Movie Academy Against Excluding Netflix From Awards
“In the event that the Academy — an association that includes multiple competitors in its membership — establishes certain eligibility requirements for the Oscars that eliminate competition without procompetitive justification, such conduct may raise antitrust concerns.” – Variety
Canada’s National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre Endangered After Government Turns Down Funding
Two years ago the National Arts Centre decided to add a company devoted to indigenous theatre to its french and english theatres. But the Canadian government has turned down a $3.5 million funding request and the plan is now in jeopardy. – Toronto Star
Marjorie Perloff: It’s Not A Great Time For Poetry Right Now
Why? “I’m not eager to write poetry criticism right now because the current scene strikes me as pretty unchallenging vis-a-vis, say, fiction or documentary. It’s just not a great moment for poetry.” – Tablet
Museums Are Having An Existential Moral Crisis
Protests over the sources of money that funds them. Calls for repatriation of plundered artifacts. Demands for cultural diversity and inclusion. Running a museum these days is a never-ending string of moral decisions. – The Economist
Recorded Music Revenues Up For Fourth Year In A Row, Soar To Global Record
Streaming revenue grew by 34.0% and accounted for almost half (47%) of global revenue, powered by a 32.9% increase in paid subscription streaming, according to the report. There were 255 million users of paid streaming services at the end of 2018, with paid streaming accounting for 37% of total recorded music revenue. Growth in streaming more than offset a 10.1% decline in physical revenue and a 21.2% decline in download revenue. – Variety
New Design Thinking: Accessibility Is A Design Issue
Traditionally, what people get through mass production is something designed for an abstraction of an ideal male body. Customarily, those whose bodies did not fit the standard, who were not spry or male, had to make do. Designers didn’t account for variations of the human body. – Aeon
Do We Need To Rewrite Fairy Tales To Protect Girls From Pernicious Stereotypes? Actually, No
The key is that you don’t read them to young kids: wait until they’re at least 10, then give them a good edition of Grimm to read for themselves. Why? Because, as we tend to forget, these weren’t originally children’s stories. – BBC
Mark Twain, Charles Ives, and Race
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 2 are twin American cultural landmarks, comparable in method and achievement. They both transform a hallowed Old World genre — the novel, the symphony — through recourse to New World vernacular speech. – Joe Horowitz
Theatre Critic Nancy Pelosi: Broadway’s “Mockingbird” Is A Play For Our Time
“In this play, we learn something so important: decency. In our country right now there’s a craving for decency, and this play is about that,” Pelosi said at an event at the Library of Congress hosted by the Educational Theatre Association. – The Hill