“Audiences step into the room with copious amounts of information and rich life experiences. The theater space presents a ripe opportunity for collective visioning.”
Tag: 01.27.14
Dealer/Hoarder Considers Restitution for Nazi-Looted Art
An attorney for Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive Munich collector whose trove of art, roughly valued at $1.3 billion, may be works looted by Nazi forces and sold through Gurlitt’s art dealer father, says that he will consider
The Real Problem With Literary Translation: It’s Not Untranslatable Words
“In a way, there’s no such thing. It may take three words, or an entire sentence, or even an interpolated paragraph, but any word can be translated. Short of swelling a book into an encyclopedia, however, there is no way of dealing with the larger problem: untranslatable worlds.”
Scotland Lays Out A Ten-Year Plan For Culture
“The draft does not make any major new promises from Scotland’s non-departmental public body for the arts, but seeks to set out its core priorities in a more accessible language than previously.”
Royal Ballet Plucks The English National Ballet’s Star Dancer
Vadim Muntagirov is the ENB’s lead principal, a 23-year-old Russian whose talents have earned him comparisons with a young Nureyev. The defection is a huge coup for the Royal Ballet, still smarting from the loss of its leading female principals Tamara Rojo and Alina Cojocaru to the ENB.
UK Critic’s Circle National Dance Awards Call Out The Best In British Dance
“More than 200 nominations of companies, choreographers and performers were received from the dance critics and the 40 short-listed for the awards came from a wide spectrum, both geographically and by genre, including the breakthrough of three nominees from flamenco.”
Actors Meet To Discuss Erosion Of Broadway Tour Pay
“Actors shared personal stories about life on tour and financial challenges, but there were no formal proposals or negotiating strategies offered that might lead to higher salaries, according to the three members at the meeting.”
Google’s Plan To Build A Brain
“Basically, the idea is to mimic the biological structure of the human brain with software so that it can build machines that learn “organically” — that is, without human involvement.”
We Love Music – 28.5 Million Tune In To Grammys
“That would be a slight increase over last year’s 28.4 million viewers and the second-biggest Grammy audience since 1993.”
Ballet Gets Its Own Prime-Time Drama Series
It’s called Flesh and Bone, it will center on an ambitious and disturbed young ballerina (wonder where they got that idea), and it features some serious ballet talent in front of and behind the camera. Leading the project is a longtime producer for Quentin Tarantino. (Make of that what you will.)