WQXR editor-in-chief Jacqui Cheng interviews Chi-chi Nwanoku, one of London’s leading double bassists and founder of the Chineke! Orchestra, and Chineke! bassoonist Linton Stephens. – WQXR (New York City)
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Artists Accuse Tehran Museum Of Selling Their Work Without Permission
A growing number of artists claim that their works in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) have gone “missing” and may have ended up on the market without their knowledge. – The Art Newspaper
‘How Dance Helped Me Work Through My Autism And Open Up To Others’
Isaac Iskra, a person with high-functioning autism, writes about his difficult adjustment to his college’s dance department (he had a panic attack the first day), his subsequent breakthroughs, and how serious study of dance helped him with all areas of communications. – Dance Magazine
There Will Finally Be A Ballet Emoji (And No, It Won’t Look Like This)
A placeholder image that went viral last month had bunheads worldwide worried. But it’s merely a placeholder for engineers. – Pointe
How They Made That Amazing Opening Dance Sequence In Gaspar Noé’s ‘Climax’
“Shot in a single-take, the [five-minute] dance routine is more than just choreographed steps. It shows off the dancers’ individual styles which include voguing, an improvisational dance form that mixes exaggerated model poses with mime-like movement; waacking, characterized by rapid arm movements; and krumping, an aggressive and emotional dance born on the streets of South L.A.” Choreographer Nina McNeely talks to a reporter about the strange ways the sequence came together. – Los Angeles Times
Marcia Dale Weary, Whose Small-Town Pennsylvania School Produced Generations Of Ballet Stars, Dead At 82
In 1955, she founded what would become the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in an old barn in Carlisle, about half an hour west of Harrisburg. “CPYB is [now] known as one of the most prestigious ballet schools in the nation, with alumni holding positions in ballet companies such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet.” – PennLive
Edinburgh Fringe Performers Earn Average Of $514 For 40 Days: Study
“Edinburgh Fringe theatremakers earned an average of just £392.15 for their work at the 2018 festival, covering a period of as much as 40 days, with fair-pay campaigners branding the figures ‘shocking’. New research reveals that 38% of those surveyed were completely unpaid, with the average payment for those who did receive money standing at £637.25.” (That’s $835.99, or just under $21 a day for 40 days.) – The Stage
Departing Conductor Of Savannah Philharmonic Departs Much More Quickly Than Expected
Peter Shannon, who was artistic director of the orchestra for all of its ten years, announced last fall that he’d be leaving his post at the end of this season. But the Philharmonic board said in a release on Monday that it had accepted Shannon’s immediate resignation last week. – Savannah Morning News
Joseph Flummerfelt, Greatest American Choral Conductor Of His Generation, Dead At 82
“Mr. Flummerfelt played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music. He prepared choruses for hundreds of concerts by the New York Philharmonic and a host of other famous orchestras and maestros, and he trained generations of singers and conductors at Westminster Choir College in Princeton N.J.” – The New York Times
Steppenwolf Begins Construction Of $54 Million Theatre And Education Center
“The long-in-gestation building, which has been designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and the British theater design company known as Charcoalblue, is expected to open in the summer of 2021.” It will include, as an addition to its three existing performance spaces, a 400-seat theatre-in-the-round as well as education facilities. – Chicago Tribune