“Jacques Audiard’s powerful prison drama “Un Prophete” (A Prophet) swept the board at the “Cesar” awards on Saturday, picking up the best film, best actor and best director prizes at France’s annual version of the Oscars.”
Tag: 02.28.10
Adelaide Considers Making Its Festival An Annual Event
“An annual event could come to be perceived outside Adelaide as being targeted more at local constituents. A government that boasts of the festival’s $14m economic impact would be wise to bear that in mind. But this year parochialism has already taken hold.”
Video Becomes A Regular Character On Stage
Video projection has for years been used in experimental theater, notably in companies such as the Wooster Group in New York, and in Europe and in Australia. “But in terms of the mainstream theater scene – Broadway and the regular theaters – it’s really been a last-decade phenomenon.”
Rise Of The Solo Show
“Five years ago “solo show” wasn’t even marketed as a separate category at the summer New York International Fringe, the city’s biggest theater festival. In 2006 submissions of solo works jumped to 125, a 20 percent increase over the previous year.”
A Fact Is A Fact Is A…?
“Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change.”
Dancing On Ice? Er, Maybe Not…
“Figure skating exists in a murky place — it’s tempting to find parallels to dance. Both forms feature movement in space and time set to music, and some skaters even study ballet. Still, when a certain recurring question crops up — is figure skating a sport or an art — I’m reminded of the jokes, and the answer is clear: it’s a sport with delusions of grandeur.”
Guarneri Cellist David Soyer, 87
“The Guarneri became one of the world’s best-known quartets, setting a standard in quartetistry with seamless, warm and impassioned playing and a unanimity that did not efface individual personalities.”
How Kronos Reinvented String Quartets
“When the Kronos Quartet hit its stride during the late ’80s, its concerts were powerful, absorbing affairs, not despite their extra-musical trappings but in part because of them. Surprisingly, Kronos has spawned relatively few imitators. But in a larger sense the Kronos influence is everywhere.”