“Dutoit, the orchestra’s principal conductor and artistic director, had been due to step down in October 2019. Following an emergency board meeting, however, his departure has been brought forward and he will leave immediately. In December, three opera singers and a musician accused Dutoit of forcing himself upon them – which he denied.”
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Just How Many Dimensions Do We Exist In?
“Unlike mathematicians, who are at liberty to play in the field of ideas, physics is bound to nature, and at least in principle, is allied with material things. Yet all this raises a liberating possibility, for if mathematics allows for more than three dimensions, and we think mathematics is useful for describing the world, how do we know that physical space is limited to three? Although Galileo, Newton and Kant had taken length, breadth and height to be axiomatic, might there not be more dimensions to our world?”
Ex-New York City Ballet Dancer Goes On-Camera To Detail Allegations Of Peter Martins’s Violent Abuse
“Wilhelmina Frankfurt, a former NYCB ballerina and currently a dance educator, joined [Alyona Minkovski] on ‘Salon Talks’ to discuss Martins’s legacy and reveal new claims against her former director.” (text and video)
What Directing Teachers Teach Their Students: Five Veterans Explain
Frank Galati: “Certain aspects of the job can most definitely be taught, the way a language can be taught – the grammar, the practice. Those are rules that don’t really change.”
Sarah Schulman: “I can’t teach you talent. I can’t teach you insight, and sensitivity, and awareness, and perception. I can’t teach you poetry – but I can help you expand these skills by asking the right questions.”
What Directing Students Say They Learn In Their MFA Programs
“Robert O’Hara, who got his MFA in directing from Columbia University, was surprised when the program director, Anne Bogart, said she could teach the class all there was to know about directing in three weeks. What was the rest of the program about, then?”
Ireland’s New National Opera Company Announces Its First Season
The Irish National Opera won’t be parking itself in the capital: plans are for and 38 performances in eight regional cities as well as Dublin, plus a contemporary work at London’s Barbican Centre. Repertory ranges from Mozart and Gluck through Verdi, Offenbach and Bartók to living composers Thomas Adès and Donnacha Dennehy.
Trocks Dancer Resigns, Accuses Company of Discrimination and Harassment
Chase Johnsey “says that he no longer believes the company” – the travesti troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo – “stands for openness and gender freedom. He claims that he and other dancers have been mistreated, sexually harassed and discriminated against for appearing too feminine in classes and rehearsals, adding, ‘We’re being bullied for expressing our femininity and we’re being given ultimatums just because we don’t live up to some masculine idea of what a gay man is.” (includes video)
Michelle Wiliiams Was Paid $1,000 For The Reshoots Of ‘All The Money In The World’ – And Mark Wahlberg Was Paid $1.5 Million
“Ridley Scott’s Getty kidnapping drama was hastily reshot the week of Thanksgiving after a cascade of sexual misconduct allegations were made public against Kevin Spacey, who previously starred in the drama as billionaire J. Paul Getty. … But new information reveals ugly math behind the Hollywood victory.”
New York Magazine’s Sara Holdren Wins George Jean Nathan Award For Dramatic Criticism
Holdren, who became the magazine’s lead theater critic last summer after Jesse Green moved to the New York Times, won the $10,000 prize for “The Revolution Will Not Be Hashtagged: A Misguided ‘Joan of Arc’ at the Public Theatre,” published at Culturebot last April.
Karin Von Aroldingen, Ballet Star For Balanchine, Dead At 76
“Trained in ballet in her native Germany, Ms. von Aroldingen admitted that she had to unlearn much of what she knew when adapting to [New York] City Ballet’s fleet, streamlined style. Yet after Balanchine’s death in 1983, she became an expert stager of his works for other companies in the United States and abroad, and performed a wide Balanchine repertoire herself before she retired from dancing in 1984. She served as a ballet mistress in the company from 2004 to 2016.”