Liam Scarlett, now 25, is making work for Miami City Ballet, the Ballet Boyz, and the Royal Ballet, where he is a company member. Already Scarlett is drawing comparisons to Christopher Wheeldon, whose career followed a similar trajectory.
Tag: 01.01.12
Who’s Behind All The Ferment At The Mikhailovsky Ballet?
St. Petersburg’s number two company has been grabbing headlines lately: luring two top Bolshoi stars away and bringing star modern choreographer Nacho Duato to strictly classicist Russia. Luke Jennings introduces the characters in the Mikhailovsky’s eventful story.
The Ibsen Forgery That Rocked Scandinavian Theatre
“Geir Ove Kvalheim, a Norwegian scriptwriter and actor, … claimed to have discovered fragments of a previously unknown Ibsen play, The Sun God, a find that would have changed Norwegian literary history.”
Boston Mayor Wants Huge Increase In (Non-)Taxes On Museums, Non-Profits
Mayor Thomas Menino has introduced changes in Boston’s PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) scheme, with a plan requiring any non-profit with more than $15 million in property to pay 25% of what they would owe in commercial taxes as for-profit businesses. Many museums would see payments quadruple over the next five years.
Pittsburgh Symphony’s New CEO, And The Challenges He Faces
“When symphony president Larry Tamburri resigned abruptly on Nov. 14, the symphony was already facing multimillion dollar deficits and attendance issues. Suddenly, it also needed a leader to handle those problems.” The PSO got that leader the very same day.
John Buchanan, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums Director, Dead At 58
“[The] ebullient and controversial director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco since 2006,” who was known, and sometimes criticized, for his “flamboyant approach to audience building and institutional growth” by means of blockbuster exhibitions, “died Friday at his San Francisco home of cancer.”
Merce’s Oher Legacy
Wendy Perron on two generations of post-Cunningham choreographers: “[That] is the other legacy. Cunningham’s effect goes beyond the Legacy Tour and beyond the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. There’s a piece of Merce in all of us.”
How The Internet Is Changing The Nature Of Knowledge
Harvard researcher David Weinberger: “In the West, knowledge begins as a winnowing process. … That idea … not by coincidence fits perfectly with the paper medium that we used for it. Paper is expensive, libraries are small, very few people can get published. … In the digital age we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.”
The Problem With The Modern Sense Of Time
“Despite our increasing reliance on the mechanical measurement of time to structure our lives, many of us find some part of us resisting it. We find it confining, too rigid perhaps to suit our natural states, and long for that looser structure of the medieval village (while retaining our modern comforts and medical advances, of course). What is behind this resistance?”
Why Portlandia Makes Fun Of Virtuous Hipsters
Series co-creator Carrie Brownstein: “I guess that they are ridiculous, but at the same time they’re things that I embrace – it’s a set of behaviors and an ideology that I enact, and that I think many of us sort of perform or follow. … [But] it takes a certain amount of good fortune, privilege and entitlement to have those things be what you’re worried about. And I think that most of us know that.”