Christopher Morgan’s second job as new artistic director of the beloved Dance Place: “zeroing in on how to make his studios available to local choreographers. He’d like to develop ‘space grants.'”
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How Did This Berlin Underpass Become One Of The Biggest Action Stars Of The Past Decade?
This place has a great IMDb page: “Since doubling as the exterior of a Moscow airport in 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, the distinctive orange-tiled walls and pillars of the Messedamm underpass have been seen in Joe Wright’s Hanna in 2011, 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, last year’s Captain America: Civil War and Charlize Theron spy thriller Atomic Blonde, released earlier this month.”
Tobe Hooper, Director Of ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ And ‘Poltergeist,’ Has Died At 74
The director became a legend of horror with the 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which was shot for less than $300,000, was banned in several countries for its violence, and then became one of the most profitable indie movies of the decade.
Netflix Capitalizes On Our Emotions, Including, Especially, Anticipation
It’s science! “Netflix’s deluge of announcements is, for the most part, a welcomed high at a time that has taken us to new lows—often with no roadmap to find our way back. What’s not as obvious is the camouflaged science behind these announcements: Netflix’s long game.”
‘Gone With The Wind’ Is No Longer Going To Be An Annual Tradition At This Memphis Theatre
The Orpheum Theatre screened the film on August 11, the same day of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville – and commenters weren’t shy about connecting the two. The president of the Orpheum Theatre Group says the decision was made before Charlottesville, but: “As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves,’ the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population.”
Artist Ron Athey, Who Left The Country After The NEA Backlash To His ‘Solar Anus’ In The 1990s, Is Back
Athey says, “Being contextualized in art history for your asshole alone is a feat.” But he adds that if he hadn’t become a performance artist, he would have been a landscaper rescuing Los Angeles from its raggedy lawns. “I’d rather see a nice xeriscaped garden than some poor lawn. I love the garden. I would have a botanical garden — the botanical garden with all the special poison and psychedelic plants.”
In 10,000 Rediscovered Somali Recordings, Remembering A Very Different Mogadishu
Yes, Somalia was under military rule, but it was a military rule that supported the arts and music. One singer from the time:”We had bars in Mogadishu and five nightclubs. We travelled from city to city and performed in hotels and bars. Those were the golden years.”
Films Catch Up With 2014 Or So
The films, exploring police brutality against African Americans and a lot more, are mostly, but not entirely, documentaries. The director of the Ferguson documentary Whose Streets says, “It sometimes seems like all of our political actions are exhausted or have been compromised, and there’s a real pressing sense of the magnitude of the issues, with no clear path forward. … I think the way out of that is for us to look around, and in our backyard, and tackle problems in front of us, rather than being consumed in this massive huge story.”
Is A Theatre MFA Worth Anything At All?
People are going into debt up to $130,000, and Harvard’s ART is shutting down its MFA program for three years to re-evaluate before it gets shut down. “While a theatre education is valuable, it ought to be cheaper. In an industry currently in the throes of an ongoing conversation about equity, diversity, and inclusion, lowering the cost of education is one way to attract individuals from more socioeconomic backgrounds. Otherwise, according to O’Malley, ‘What’s going to happen is the only people who end up with MFAs are going to be rich kids.'”
The Syrian Guy Who Tattooed ‘Dance Or Die’ On His Neck Where ISIS Chops Off Heads Has Landed In Amsterdam
The managing director of the Dutch National Ballet: “I was surprised by what he had been able to achieve with the patchiness of the training he had. … It’s a bit late for him to be a classical [ballet dancer] but that doesn’t mean he can’t be an artist, a dancer.”