The current London production of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is so graphic that audience members are literally fainting in shock. The production’s director, Katie Mitchell, isn’t the only one who thinks people are reacting more strongly because the artists who put it on stage are female.
Tag: 02.27.16
Where Dancers Keep Working After Age 60
“Five years ago France had barely half a dozen professional dancers over 60; now they’re increasingly common.” Half a dozen of them tell how they do it.
Paul Allen Wants To Build Another Museum
Allen’s already got Experience Music Project at Seattle Center, which describes itself on its website as “a leading-edge nonprofit museum, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture.” Allen also founded the Living Computer Museum in Sodo, the Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett, and STARTUP, a gallery at Albuquerque’s New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.”
Has The Minnesota Orchestra Come Back From The Brink After Its Long, Painful Lockout?
“The stakes will be high [at Carnegie Hall] when Vänskä and his musicians face a packed house of some of the sharpest ears in classical music, anxious to assess the orchestra’s rebound from a bitter 16-month lockout.”
The Great Abyss Of Missing Stories About Women
“We are always looking to tell something from a fresh perspective and with a fresh insight and it just so happens that, because of the way history is told, a lot of the untold stories are female. We are drawn to it from a storytelling point of view rather than specifically because it is based around women.”
#JeSuisCirconflexe – Why The Protests Against French Spelling Changes Are So Passionate
The people who are angry about the loss of a diacritical mark are upset about the abandonment of history – but, even if they don’t realize it, it’s not really linguistic history that worries them.
English National Opera? Just Shut It Down Already, Says Director Of The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips: “Spending millions on desperate experiments has become a habit of mind. It is the last of the patrician gestures in which our system of public sponsorship will allow an educated (sort of) elite to impose its preferences on everyone else. … [Why is] this whopping imposition on our pockets tolerable in the first place?”