“The hippies of the Haight were hardly the first victims of San Francisco’s tourist industry, however. The city pioneered American slumming back in the 19th century, when tour operators started offering package deals on nocturnal Chinatown visits.”
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Transforming Neurological Disabilities Into Choreography for the Able-Bodied
Alain Platel of Les Ballets C de la B “has never been a dancer but came to choreography from a former career as a specialist teacher working with children with multiple disabilities. He had been immersed in the language of impairment, with its tics, involuntary spasms and unco-ordinated movements.”
Apologies Aren’t What They’re Cracked Up to Be
“But our collective desire for apologies may not be a great indicator of their effect once delivered. Studies have shown that people are poor forecasters of their emotional responses to life and tend to overestimate future reactions to both positive and negative situations.”
A Whole New Generation of Ballet Boyz
“Now in their early forties, [Michael] Nunn and [William] Trevitt are passing their experience on to the fledgling dancers who make up their cheekily named new troupe, The Talent.”
The Return of ‘Virtue Ethics’: Forward From the Enlightenment to Aristotle
“The problem is that we’ve lost touch with the bigger picture: what is it that makes life good for us humans? The Enlightenment left us with few resources for thinking about that larger question, because it was so focused on winning individuals their freedom. In any case, now that we are relatively free, we need to ask again what life is for. There is another ethical tradition that can help. It’s known as virtue ethics.”
The Promising Young Playwright Killed in Moscow Airport Bombing
“Among the 35 people killed in the bomb attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo airport … was the young playwright Anna Yablonskaya. She was travelling to Moscow from her home town, Odessa, to receive a prize for her most recent play, Pagans.“
Alexei Ratmansky Is a Man Liberated
He was deeply honored to have the job of running and revitalizing the Bolshoi Ballet, but the company’s ferocious internal politics wore him out and dangerous, mistrustful Moscow boxed him in. At ABT, he has the freedom to mold dancers his way, to accept outside work, and to not be tied up running a company.
Trying Hard to Brighten Up a Gloomy National Anthem
“Over the past decade, Julio Cesar Rivera Davalos has spent more than $100,000 of his savings, put his consulting business on hold and endured blistering personal attacks to advance a lonely cause: changing Peru’s epic downer of a national anthem.”
Darren Aronofsky Talks About The “Black Swan” Phenomenon
“It’s crazy,” says the 41-year-old director. “Black Swan doesn’t feel much different from my past films, so I don’t get it. The movie is out there, it’s definitely weird. The first comments we got back from people were that it was weird.”
Director Of Long Beach’s Museum of Latin American Art Abruptly Resigns
Richard P. Townsend had held the job less than two years. “It’s the third change at the top for the Long Beach museum in little more than 3 1/2 years since completing a $15-million expansion and renovation in 2007.”